| William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...astrologers and fortune-tellers cheat many by those sights. CASAUBON. SOLOMON. 1050. [1 Kings iv. 30, 31.] And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and a/1 the wisdom of Egypt. For he teat wiser than all men. Solomon veas wiser than all men ; because... | |
| George Holden - 1819 - 538 pages
...Introductio ad Lib. Canon, par. 2, cap. iv. § 2. gave Solomon wisdom and understanding," so that his " wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the East country, and all the wisdom of Egypt." We are likewise informed, that he spake three thousand proverbs ; and if they are not, in part at least,... | |
| 1819 - 948 pages
...were, every man according to his charge. 29 II And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well wi sea-shore. 30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country; and... | |
| Richard Carlile - 1820 - 660 pages
...according to his charge. And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and hirgcness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore....the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men ; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Hcinan, and Clnilcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol : and his fame was... | |
| Ralph Cudworth - 1820 - 578 pages
...transcendency of Solomon's wisdom is likewise thus expressed by the writer of the Book of K.ings,d that it excelled " the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt." Where by the children of the east are chiefly meant the Persian magi, and the Chaldeans; and there... | |
| Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pages
...his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that...of the East Country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. And he spake three thousand Proverbs, some of which are contained in the Books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.... | |
| 1822 - 872 pages
...Egyptians." And the highest character given of SOLOMON'S wisdom is, that it " excelled all the wisdom of the children of the East Country, and all the wisdom of Egypt." — In short, Egypt was the ancient school of the world, — the school to which the most eminent philosophers... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1823 - 468 pages
...which is given of the attainments of Solomon. We read, that Solomons wisdom, like the wisdom of Moses, excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country and all the wisdom of Egypt 2 .• and the nature of this wisdom is immediately afterward set forth to us, as being partly of a... | |
| Whitlock Nicol - 1823 - 356 pages
...xxiv. 1. 1 Chr. w 1 Rings, iii. 5. xxi. 1. * 1 Kings, iii. 9. 1 1 King*, Iv. 1, 21. y 1 Kings, iii. 12. much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore z." Nevertheless " it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his... | |
| Gerhard Friedrich A. Strauss - 1824 - 408 pages
...after thee shall any arise like unto thee.' Accordingly we are told of his wisdom, ' that he excelled all the children of the east country and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all... | |
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