 | Dante Alighieri - 1844 - 606 pages
...0 glorious stars ! O light impregnate with exceeding virtue ! To whom whate'er of genius lifteth me heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." Gen. xxviii. 12. So Milton, PL b. iii. 510. The stairs were such, as whereon Jacob saw Angels ascending and descending,... | |
 | Thomas Edwards Hankinson - 1844 - 472 pages
...the stars. 3 " And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder Bet up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven ; and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it." Gen. xxviii. 12. The poetical liberty taken with the literality of this passage was suggested by the view of the Alps... | |
 | William Warde Fowler - 1844 - 222 pages
...enjoy, we are found at last guilty of neglecting this great salvation. SERMON XL GENESIS xxviii. 12. "AND HE DREAMED, AND BEHOLD A LADDER SET UP ON THE EARTH, AND THE TOP OP IT REACHED TO HEATEN: AND BEHOLD Till''. ANGELS OF GoD ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ON IT."... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1845 - 710 pages
...Archangel Michael. Six figures. ISAAC VAN OSTADE. 178. A Landscape. REMBRANDT. 179. Jacob's Dream. " AND he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the...ascending and descending on it.'' — Gen. xxviii. 121 JACOB, whose figure is that of a common peasant, and scarce distinguishable amid the " palpable... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 378 pages
...Saturn before mentioned. (26.) " Chiaro '' instead of " caro " is a reading of the codex Bartol. (28.) " And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the...Angels of God ascending and descending on it." — Gen. xxv Hi. 12. Thns Milton, Par. Lost, iii. 510. " The stairs were such as whereon Jacob saw Angels ascending... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 370 pages
...Saturn before mentioned. (26.) "Chiaro'1 instead of "caro" is a reading of the codex Bartol. (28.) " And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the...Angels of God ascending and descending on it." — Gen. nviii. 12. Thus Milton, Par. Lost, iii. 510. " The stairs were such as whereon Jacob saw Angels ascending... | |
 | 1845 - 702 pages
...of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12 to the righteous, gond shalfbe repaid. 22 A good man...children s children: and the wealth of the sinner is and descending on it. 13 And behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I ant the Ix>RDGod of Abraham... | |
 | 1848 - 320 pages
...and the mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God seen by the eye of faith in the ladder set up ; and behold a. ladder set up on the earth, and the...to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it; and behold the Lord stood above it, and dropped such a divine blessing into his... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 740 pages
...prophetic, worthy of a lasting record. Divine inspiration informs us what he scan and what he heard: "Behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top...God ascending and descending on it," Gen. xxviii. 1 2. Jacob's circumstances will partly account for the visions of the dreamer. Jus anxious thought«... | |
 | Alexander Watson - 1846 - 486 pages
...took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.3 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the...to heaven: and, behold, the angels of GOD ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD GOD of Abraham... | |
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And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it... 
