 | 1855 - 870 pages
...margin, " Unto those that be bitter of soul, [how sweetly suitable are God's precious remedies ! ] let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." (Prov. xxxi. 6.) And where is the strong drink, but at the fountain-head of all our blessedness in... | |
 | John Kitto - 1856 - 750 pages
...'Give strong drink,unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be 'of heavy hearts. 7 his people shall he take away from off all the earth : for the LORD hat 8 Open thy mouth tor the dumb in the cause of all 5such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy... | |
 | 1857 - 802 pages
..." Give strring drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy heart. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." Abstainers, I understand, have concluded that this passage was meant to bs ironical, but that I think... | |
 | James Miller - 1858 - 184 pages
...can secure a temporary success. " Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." But here again Scripture is often "wrested" to their "own destruction." They will interpret this literally,... | |
 | New England journalist - 1859 - 328 pages
...example, we begin and cite a few : — In Proverbs, 31st chapter, 6th and 7th verses, the wise Solomon says, " Give strong drink unto him that is ready to...forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." Good old Israel, too, after whom the church of God is named, in his dying blessing says of Judah, the... | |
 | John Marshall Lowrie - 1859 - 282 pages
...remembrance of that bitter day in the oblivion of inebriation. " Give strong drink," says the wise man, "to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those that...forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." Prov. xxxi. 6, 7. If Haman drank that day it was not for joy ; and the little company was none the... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1859 - 566 pages
...passion ministers to virtue, so far by this means they may be provided for. " Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those that...hearts; let him drink and forget his poverty, and S»n. XVI. remember his misery no more,"* said King] stance, as the meat is to be accounted, so Lemuel's... | |
 | New England journalist - 1859 - 308 pages
...: " Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy heart. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." In Burns' time, not only did good and accepted Masons indulge in the use of liquor without disparagement... | |
 | John Grigg Hewlett - 1860 - 236 pages
...judgment of any of the afflicted. Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and...forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." — PHOVERBS xxxi. 4 — 7. THESE two passages, far from contradicting each other, -will be found,... | |
 | 1860 - 1346 pages
...Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. 7 when thou mayest be found : surely in the floods of great waters they s 8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy... | |
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Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more. 
