| 1864 - 940 pages
...and probable as the admiring comment of another person, especially in its sweeping extent : " meek above all the men which were upon the face of the earth." We have no serious objection to this latter view. The frequent formula, " unto this day," is cited... | |
| 1860
...gentle and submissive spirit, which secured for him this testimony, "Now the man Moses was verf laeek above all the men which were upon the face of the earth." As to this patience in tribulation, a greater than Moses has appeared. He •whose first words pertained... | |
| Socrates (Scholasticus) - 1844 - 594 pages
...office. And what is recorded of Moses in the book of Numbers, t " Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth" — may most justly be applied to the emperor Theodosius. It is because of this, that God subdued his... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 206 pages
...he entrusted great power over his chosen people, it was said : — Now the man MOSES was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. NUMBERS xn. 8. And we are told by the Psalmist, that: — God arose to judgment, to save all the meek... | |
| 1845 - 1164 pages
...10.11, 17 lKi.3.5.' Job 33. 15. A Heb.3.2,5. t ITS .3. 15. IPet.2.4,5. h Ex.33. 11. Dent. 34. 10 meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) 4 And d the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ve three unto... | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton - 1993 - 412 pages
...by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us ? And the Lord heard it 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) 5 And the Lord came down In the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...9, ed. by Leslie A. Marchand. 1979). referring to Numbers 1 2:3: "Now Ihe man Moses was very meek, Mrs. Napper, in The Hand of Ethctbertj, ch. 9 (1876). spe 4 If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me... | |
| William Gerber - 1994 - 260 pages
...humility appears in the following passage in the Book of Numbers: 11 "Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth." E. Deuteronomy Deuteronomy is the only book in the Bible about which the Bible itself tells of the... | |
| Wayne G. Boulton, Thomas D. Kennedy, Allen Verhey - 1994 - 576 pages
...also the embodiment of kindness: a "man of blood" but also "meek Moses." "And Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth" (Num. 12:3). 1n one of the rebellions against his authority, the tribal leaders Dathan and Abiram accuse... | |
| James Nohrnberg - 1995 - 426 pages
...his want of an apotheosis is his mediatorial self-abnegation. If the man Moses was indeed "very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth" (Num. 12:3), this ambassadorial self-effacement stands at the opposite pole from the self-assertion... | |
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