 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice...  Sermons on Various Subjects - Page 319de William Paley - 1825Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 pages
...wor shippers with a melancholy sense of its inferiority. According to the pathetic words of Ezra, ' many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers,...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice.' The building of Ezra was succeeded by the noble edifice of Herod, and that, in its turn, • Were they... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 336 pages
...this respect, the former temple was far superiour to the latter; " many of the priests and lerites, and chief of the fathers who were ancient men that...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice ;" so mortifying was the comparison. Our Prophet himself holds the same language, ch. ii. 3. " Who... | |
 | Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of David, king of Israel. But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the...that had seen the first house, when the foundation of the house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted for joy. Ezra iii. 10,... | |
 | Joseph Fincher - 1829 - 442 pages
...great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy. IN CAUSING DARIUS TO MAKE A NEW DECREE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE BUILDING... | |
 | 1834 - 692 pages
...the house of the Lord was laid, under the direction of Ezra, ' the people shouted with a great shout. But many of the priests and Levites, and chief of...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice ; and many shouted for joy : so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from... | |
 | 1829 - 1012 pages
...LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. But many of the priests and Lévites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men. that...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice ; and many shouted aloud for joy : 13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1829 - 528 pages
...having taken place we have direct testimony. " Many," says Ezra, * " of the Priests and Le" vites, and chief of the Fathers, who were ancient men, "...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice:" Doubtless from the melancholy contrast between the magnificence of the old Temple, and the infancy... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 806 pages
...great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. w Rut many of the Priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the lirst house, when the foundation of this house wns laid before their eyes wrpt wiih aloud voice; and... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1829 - 380 pages
...acclamations of the multitude, but the tears of the ancient men that had seen the first house, who, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. For how different was the condition of the Hebrew people, from that splendid period, when their kings... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 474 pages
...belong in any sense, nor any persons of eminence at all. Bethlehem has for nearly seventeen hundred years been destroyed. It would be difficult, I suppose,...they might not be cast down by beholding the inferior condition of the new building, in comparison with the wealth and splendor of the old one ; and he addresses... | |
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