 | Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette - 1843 - 586 sivua
...of Joseph, that is, the tribe of Ephraim, or the kingdom of the ten tribes. Genesis xlix. 22—26. " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him ; but his bow abode in... | |
 | Henry Blunt - 1844 - 368 sivua
...fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. 21. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. 22. Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall : 23. The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : 24. But his bow... | |
 | John Lindsay Adamson - 1844 - 256 sivua
...of old men ; and the glory of children are their fathers.'' CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST. -* THE BLESSING. " JOSEPH is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him ; but his bow abode in... | |
 | J. T. Bannister - 1844 - 650 sivua
...they do by tying stones to the extremity of the tendril. This custom elucidates Gen. xlix. 22 : — " Joseph is a fruitful bough ; even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall." The vine is frequently made to entwine on trellises around a wall; where, in the heat of... | |
 | George Dixon (of the North of Engl. agric. sch.) - 1845 - 82 sivua
...beautiful similes, and much of the imagery of the Scriptures are drawn from the vegetable kingdom. " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall." — Gen. xlix-31. "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth... | |
 | 1868 - 844 sivua
...malaria and the seeds of death. The Pope's curses, like young chickens, always come home to roost. Bat " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely grieved him. and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in... | |
 | 1744 - 596 sivua
...different characters. Of one it was said, " unstable as water, thou shalt not excel." Of the other, " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall." Which character ia most worthy of imitation, fickle Reuben or fruitful Joseph. DQ 56 <5... | |
 | Harriet Newell Cook - 1846 - 150 sivua
...even at mid-day. The patriarch Jacob had perhaps such an image as this in his mind when he said, " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall." Gen. 49 : 22. From vines trained in this way near dwellings, for their shade and fruit,... | |
 | George Bush - 1846 - 466 sivua
...cause, however, he evinced a noble intrepidity, and the alacrity with which he, with his ten 22 If Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose wall: branches run over the thousand men ' at his feet,' descended from Mount Tabor, like a deer leaping... | |
 | 1847 - 586 sivua
...theological professor's chair at Leipsic, and died in peace and honour in 1565. 412 DETACHED THOUGHTS. " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall." — GEN. xlix. 22. This beautiful figure gives us an apt illustration of the Christian's... | |
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Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well whose branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands... 
