| Temper - 1837 - 370 sivua
...Israelites: hence, he is renowned as "the meekest man." The scripture testimony is,—" Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth." 1 "Meekness repairs the mischiefs done by anger; and instead of the bloody spear, sends the olive branch... | |
| Francis Goode - 1838 - 500 sivua
...attainment. What, of genuine Christianity, is easy, to man ? Even Moses, eminent as he was for meekness, " above all the men which were upon the face of the earth," was provoked to " speak unadvisedly, with his lips." But, if you have any reality of godliness, certainly... | |
| John Donne - 1839 - 604 sivua
...XCVIII. PREACHED AT LINCOLN'S INN. MATTHEW xviii. 7. Wo unto the world, because of offencea. THE man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth*. The man Moses was so; but the child Jesus was meeker than he. Compare Moses with men, and Moses will... | |
| John Clarke - 1839 - 462 sivua
...Neither can we suppose that he wrote the 12th Chapter ot Numbers, wherein it is said " now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth," without considering him as an ostentatious braggart, which is the very reverse of meekness. In short,... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1839 - 1018 sivua
...by Ezra, Moses having died before the forty years were accomplished. Numbers xii. 3 : " Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth," could hardly ha\x' been written by Moses himself. * Du Pin's E. II.. Preliminary Dissertation. Numbers... | |
| John Donne, Henry Alford - 1839 - 622 sivua
...SERMON XCVIII. PREACHED AT LINCOLN'S MATTHEW xviii. 7. , Wo unto the world, because of offences. THE man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earthi. The man Moses was so; but the child Jesus was meeker than he. Compare Moses with men, and Moses... | |
| John Donne - 1839 - 606 sivua
...XCVIII. PREACHED AT LINCOLN'S INN. MATTHEW xviii. 7. Wo unto the world, because of offences. THE man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth1. The man Moses was so; but the child Jesus was meeker than he. Compare Moses with men, and Mo?es... | |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 288 sivua
...silence, and with great meekness ; and we are told in this connection, in the Scriptures, that he " was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth." He took no measures to inflict that punishment, or even censure, upon the offenders, which they so... | |
| William Jacobson (bp. of Chester.) - 1840 - 354 sivua
...secure his own safety by falsehood about his wife, first in Egypt, and again in Gerar.c Moses, who was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth, yet suffered his spirit to be provoked by the murmuring of the people, so that he spake unadvisedly... | |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 282 sivua
...out of it, was the meekness for icJiich Moses was so remarkable. The Scriptures tell us, that he " was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth." It was a qualification essential to his success, and he was largely endowed with it. A spirit easily... | |
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