| John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...when he had opened the third seal, I heard the h third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a ' black horse ; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure 3 of wheat for a penny, and three... | |
| Samuel Hutchinson - 1827 - 214 pages
...with the sword abundantly. VERSE 5, " And when he had opened the third seal fyc. And I beheld, and lo, a black horse ; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hnnd.n The word " horsji' is used as a figure of the abilities, or facnUie#«Bmen ; as " white horse"... | |
| John Callaway - 1827 - 110 pages
...prophecy of Scripture is of self-interpretation;"—but is explained by its fulfilment. Revelation, vi. 6. A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny. This seems written in conformity with the practice, as in India, of sending daily to the bazar for... | |
| George Croly - 1827 - 344 pages
...the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And 1 beheld, and lo a black horse i and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three... | |
| John BRUCE (Minister of Low Hill Cemetery, Liverpool.) - 1827 - 240 pages
...of peculiar atrocity. The third presented the figure of a black horse — the emblem of famine : and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand, intimating that, during this period of scarcity, the necessaries of life should be dealt out by weight... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1828 - 484 pages
...creature say : Come, and see. And I beheld ; and, lo, a black horse : and he, that sat on him, had a yoke in his hand. And I heard a voice, in the midst of the four living creatures, say : A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenices of barley for a denarius ; and the wine and the... | |
| John Chappel Woodhouse - 1828 - 482 pages
...when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo, a black horse ; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three... | |
| 1828 - 828 pages
...when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and, lo, a black horse ; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his bund. 6 And I heard a voice in the mid-it. of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny,... | |
| Esther Copley - 1828 - 464 pages
...allowance of food meted out with rigid exactness; the price of wheat and of barley was stated— " a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny." To an English reader this would indicate the reverse of scarcity ; but wheu the price is compared with... | |
| Edward Irving - 1828 - 132 pages
...scales, the allowances of his people; in what kind is taught us by the interpretation of a voice saying, "A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny," (prices these indicating direful famine!) "and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine," (the means... | |
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