...and our deliverances. XXXII. 32. Their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the VOL. III. H Jjelds of Gomorrah ; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. The fruits that they yield are unsavoury and unwholesome ; such as were yielded by those wicked cities...

...and thorns ; and all the rain that falls upon it does but make the weeds more rank and flourishing. " Their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields...grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter," Deut.xxxii. 32. " They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web," Isa. lix. 5. "The earth...

...be broken ; but the misery attendant on sin will certainly come. The way of transgressors is hard. " Their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah ; their grapes are grapes of gall, M 2 their clusters are bitter ; their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps."...

...land of Canaan. Moses speaks of these same dragons and productions of that vine. ' For. their vine is the vine of Sodom, and of the fields .of Gomorrah ; their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters are bitter ; their wine is the poison of dragons.' This gave Jerusalem where these...

...consumed. 7 Heb. bereave, t Or. dftfited. 5 Heb. biirninç coals. 8 Or. Our high . 32 For their vine ' it e heart upon him ? 18 gaJl, Their clusters are bitter : 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps....

...vine of Sodom," which to the people produces only "grapes of gall and clusters of bitterness, whose wine is the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps ;"we recommend the advice of Colonel Napier given at Bath, on occasion of the Irish corporation Reform...

...This deleterious fruit is mentioned by Moses in terms which fully justify the assertion : " For Iheir pends on the custom of expelling lepers, and other...places; and that when these persons were cleansed and re probably the wild vine, a species of gourd, which produces the eolopKintida, a fruit so excessively...

...INTOXICATING OB BAD. God give thee plenty of corn and wine — Gen. xxvii. 28. Wine which chet^rcth God and Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps Deut. xxxii. 33. man. — Judges ix. 13. Here is distinction so plainly marked, that nothing could...

...poor when he draweth them into his net" (x. 9). Again in Deuteronomy, speaking of such, it is said, " Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps" (xxxii. 33). Properly speaking there are two sorts of guile: one making no pretensions to religion,...

...? This Vine, by nature indeed of the holy fathers, but of Sodom by pur- •«ri pose of heart ; — (for their Vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of *£"'*'' the folds of Gomorrah ;) — this Vine, when the Lord was athirst, Deut. having filled a sponge and put...