 | Robert Haldane - 1838 - 104 pages
...the day of the Lord ! to what end ' is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and ' not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a * bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned ' his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall '... | |
 | 1838 - 844 pages
...so small, that they dreaded as much to meet the one, as the other. Hence we find in (Amos v. 19,) " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him." The beast of Rev. xiii. 2, resembled a leopard, but it had the feet of a bear, and the mouth... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1840 - 632 pages
...the system referred to above, but let us beware that in shunning one evil we do not approach a worse, as " if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the bouse and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him"— it has always... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1840 - 454 pages
...should escape from one calamity he would fall into another is expressed in another form in Amos v. 19. As if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him ; Or went into a house, and leaned his hand on the wall And a serpent bit him. In the passage... | |
 | Joshua Spalding - 1841 - 270 pages
...desire the day of the Lord : to what end is it for you ? The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not... | |
 | 1842 - 414 pages
...desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him," Amos v. 18, 19. And Solomon, who had closely studied the character of the several individuals... | |
 | 1842 - 436 pages
...desire the day of the Lord : to what end is it for you ? The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...the day of the LORD ! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 SWZnotthedayoftheLoRD... | |
 | Warder Cresson - 1844 - 172 pages
...desire the day of the Lord ! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand upon the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not... | |
 | 626 pages
...turn war into peace ; the word of God is a sword, war, ruin, offence, poison ; and, as Amos says, ' as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him,' so does he advance towards the sons of Ephraim. Your writings are more dangerous than mine,... | |
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Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit... 
