 | Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - 608 pages
...imagine any thing more ludicrous and satyrical than Elijah's advice to the besotted priests of Baal ? He mocked them and said, " Cry aloud, for he is a God...pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepcth and must be awaked." The style of the ancient prophets is remarkable for its gravity and solemnity... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 626 pages
...prophets wanted more fervour in their devotion, and a little more lip labour. " Cry aloud," saith he, " for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing,...or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked," 1 Kings xviii. 27. In like manner did the Saviour treat the Jewish blind guides in his days, who were... | |
 | Thomas Cogan - 1812 - 520 pages
...from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal hear us ; but there was no voice, nor any that answered. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them,...talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey ; peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1812 - 774 pages
...caviller, or of Bome sufferer, who perhaps was whispering a comfortless surmise, " Perhaps the saint is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey,...or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked;" he says, No! no! banish the unworthy suspicion — can we impute to our divinity so ungracious, so... | |
 | Thomas Cogan - 1813 - 528 pages
...from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal hear us ; but there was no voice, nor any that answered. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them,...talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey ; peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their... | |
 | 1813 - 778 pages
...who shall call him to account, and say, What docst thou ? When Elijah " mocked" the priests of Baal, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god, either he is...pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sieepeth, and must be awaked" (1 Kings, xviii. 27.); what was this but sarcastic irony ": But the grave... | |
 | 1813 - 442 pages
...understand Elijah — ' And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, — ' Cry alond : for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing ; or he is on a journey ; or, peradventure, he ileepeth, and must be awaked.' This superstitious notion of the... | |
 | 1815 - 706 pages
...hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. 29 And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 382 pages
...The prophet Elijah, when he challenged the priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity, •-' mocked them, and said : Cry aloud, for he is a god...in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must lie awaked." Exclamations and Irony are sometimes united : as in Cicero's oration for Balbus, where... | |
 | William Ward - 1815 - 588 pages
...the golden feet. ;v 470 HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND RELIGION, [PART in. CHAP. TH. f 1 Kings xviii. 27. " He is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or perad venture he sleepeth, and must be awaked." Vifihnoo ^.^•*.'— ; sleeps four months in the year... | |
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And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. 
