 | 404 pages
...for another, equally grievous to befall them. He graphically illustrates this fact by these words, " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him." — Amos v. 18, 10. Generally speaking, the bear is the last on the list of untameable animals,... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 726 pages
...head."—LUOIAN. de luctu, c. 12. See notes on Exod. xi. 6 ; Ecclcs. xii. 5. ; Jer. ix. 17 ; Ezek. viii. 14. 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. Hence the... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1864 - 458 pages
...bereaved of her whelps " (Hos. xiii. 8). In Amos v. 19 we meet with the proverbial expression : — " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear did meet him," to express the ease of a person falling out of one danger or trial into another of a different sort.... | |
 | 1904 - 846 pages
...the day of Jehovah ! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah ? It is darkness, and cot light. " As if a man did flee from a lion, And a bear met him; Or went into the house and leaned his band on the wall, And a serpent bit him. " Shall not... | |
 | 1864 - 1196 pages
...fails, by a reference to numerous dangers of the same kind, incident in hii time to pastoral life : " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him." 'Amos T. 19.) To describe the desperate condition of the Jewish affairs, when the language... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1865 - 976 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... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1865 - 398 pages
...cobra's domicile. We find a passage in the prophet Amos that distinctly alludes to this fact : — ' 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.' Amos v.... | |
 | 1865 - 610 pages
...into the jaws of the whirlwind ; or rather, to express it in the Prophet's words, it will be to him 'as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned bis hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him;'* the end,... | |
 | Samuel Gosnell Green - 1865 - 292 pages
...the night as it brightens into morning. When he wants to speak of sudden and unexpected danger, it is "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." Or, if he... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 pages
...lix. 1 1 ; and the prophet Amos thus describes a man who, shunning one danger, falls into another: "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," Amos v. 19.... | |
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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... 
