 | Thomas Finch (of Harlow.) - 1841 - 212 pages
...Moses said unto him, " enviest thou for my sake ? • Mark ix. 38,42 Would to God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them."* St. Paul likewise evinced the same spirit, in reference to certain factions which arose in some of... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 pages
...give"* ? this is an optative form of expression, denoting a wish, as would God, that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them ! or that all might be endued with the spirit of the Lord : for the greater the number who worship... | |
 | William Latta McCalla - 1841 - 202 pages
...downright course for which his superior is denied this title. Moses said, " Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them." Did Moses think that the multiplication of prophets depreciated the title, when the Spirit went along... | |
 | 1841 - 274 pages
...(certain to prophesy.) But Moses said unto him, " Enviest thou for my sake ? Would God all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them." Such an answer, as would be written in our hearts with a diamond ; it is so divine, it is so strange... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 772 pages
...nevertheless begun to prophesy in the camp : " Enviest thou for my sake ? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them !" Whether or not this appointment of the seventy were meant for a reproof of his hasty language, he... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease, &c. Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them. — Numb. xi. 16, 17. 25, 26.29. My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...Moses to forbid them. But Moses said,— " Enviest thou for my sake ? Would God, that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them." Whatever may have been the precise functions, for which the seventy were selected, it would seem that... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1845 - 652 pages
...lay-preaching as to disapprove such labors ! le there not more reason to say, ' Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them?' Would, especially, that our Western churches had many such members to carry the Gospel into the desolate... | |
 | Charles Marriott - 1843 - 516 pages
...Medad prophesying apart in the camp, he said, Enviest thou for my sake ? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them* ! He did not wish to stand alone, his desire was for the glory of God and the good of His people, and... | |
 | Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1856 - 556 pages
...of the Dutch Church, addressed the congregation from Hebrews xi. 29, " Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them ;" asking the Lord in fervent prayer to pour out his Spirit on the people of the Netherlands, and particularly... | |
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Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them. 
