 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...nothing away ; his glory shall not descend after him, Ps. xlix. 16, 17. The king spake, and said. Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the...by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty1! Dan. iv. 30. By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...zenith of its glory in the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who proudly -claimed it as his own creation : " Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house...by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?'"1 This magnificent city, the capital or beginning of Nimrod's kingdom, stood on a large plain,... | |
 | 1825 - 712 pages
...Chaldean monarch, fully proves. In the height of his pride, he said, " Is not this great Babylon which I have built, for the house of the kingdom, by the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? But while the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, О king Nebuchadnezzar,... | |
 | John Platts - 1825 - 1006 pages
...Nebuchadnezzar was walking on his palace of Babylon, he began to say, " Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?" Scarcely had he pronounced these words, when he fell into a distemper or distraction, which so altered... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 660 pages
...domiIH . ,us, and dignities, aod .power to.do hurt.or good to others " : and say as Nebuchadnezzar, " Is not this great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, for the honour of my majesty"?'' How hard is it to be great and truly humble, and not to swell, and... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 630 pages
...arrogant boost : " Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for tlie house [or capital] of my kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty :" (Dun. iv. 30) It contained many streets, adorned with houses, three or four stories high ; and these... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I hare 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah he * city for the honow of my majesty? 31 While the word teas in At king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven,... | |
 | Robert Morrison - 1826 - 596 pages
...he had embellished, said, either mentally or audibly, with vain self-complacency, Dan. iv. 30. " Is not this great Babylon that I have built, for the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty." But whilst the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from Heaven, denouncing a punishment... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...stately towers, — those solemn temples, which made thy king of old say, in the pride of his heart, " Is not this great Babylon, that I have built, for the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?''* All that now remains of thee, according to the testimony of modern travellers, are a few masses... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 700 pages
...formed, and gilded, the pope appeared in the head of it, as it were with those words of his mouth, ' Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, aniJ for the honour of my majesty ?' This was the fatal event of men's invading the right of Christ,... | |
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All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and... 
