 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...sent them away from Isaac his son (while he yet lived) eastward, unto the east country. Ge. xxv. 6. fficers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which...the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout the tribes 1 A'i. iv. 30. This man (Job) was the greatest of all the men of the east. .l"ii i. 3. They that dwell... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 pages
...out to a greater proficiency? Couldst thou have dived into the secrets of nature; couldst thou have must not be done to satisfy her importunity, but to prosecute the great work of divine desig and all the wisdom of Solomon, who spake of beasts, of fowls, of fishes, of all trees from the cedar... | |
 | James Peggs - 1832 - 550 pages
...character." , Idolatry is cruel as the grave ; but Christian benevolence imparts, as it is said of Solomon, " largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore." " Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace. Our country next, and next the human race." give... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 336 pages
...the lot of man. This nation needs what was conferred on Solomon, " wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore." How pitiable and how deplorable are all the contests between political parties, and benevolent... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1832 - 1030 pages
...the com. mendations of Solomon, at a later period, that he excelled in knowledge "all the wisdom of the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt." Astronomy, which proba, bly, like that of the Chaldeans, comprehended also judicial astrology, physics,... | |
 | William Stevens (biographer.) - 1833 - 786 pages
...the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.* And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that...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... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1833 - 786 pages
...celebrated for wisdom in ancient times, appears from Solomon's wisdom being said to excel " the wisdom of ircumstance certainly not to be conjectured, not possible ta ha 1 Kings iv. 30. Verse 2. His star in the east. — Many conjectures have been ottered as to this appearance... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 pages
...of the wall ; he spake also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping tilings, and of fishes." "His wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt." The psalmist has presented us with an exquisite representation of the moral life of man, (would to... | |
 | Friedrich Strauss - 1835 - 320 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... | |
 | William Jenks - 1836 - 904 pages
...understanding exceeding much, and 'largeness of heart, even ' as the sand that it on the sea-shore. 80 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all • the children of the east country, and all b the wisdom of Egypt. 31 For he was c wiser than all men; than 'Ethan the Ezrahite, »od«Heman,and... | |
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And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. 
