 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...(Levit. xix. 10. Deut. xxiv. 21. Isa. iii. 14. xvii. 6. xxiv. 13. Mic. vii. 1.) ; and we learn that the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim was better than the vintage of Miezer. (Judges viii. 2.) The vineyard was not to be pruned and dressed in the sabbatical year. (Levit.... | |
 | William Carpenter - Nature in the Bible - 1833 - 420 pages
...xix. 10. Deut. xxiv. 21. Isa. iii. 14 ; chap. xvii. 6 ; xxvi. 13; Micah vii. 1 ) ; and we learn that the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim was better than the vintage of Abiezer; Judg. viii. 2. The vessels in which the vine was kept, were probably, for the most part, bottles, which... | |
 | William Carpenter - Nature in the Bible - 1833 - 420 pages
...Dent. xxiv. 21. Isa. iii. 14 ; chap, xvii.6 ; xxvi. 13; Micah vii. 1) ; and we learn that the gfeaning of the grapes of Ephraim was better than the vintage of Abiezer, Judg. viii. 2. The vessels in which the vine was kept, were probably, for the most part, bottles, which... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1841 - 892 pages
...and other articles (Lev. xix. 10. Deut. xxiv. SI. Isa. iii. 14. xvii. 6. xxiv. 13. Mie. vii. 1.); and the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim was better than the vintage of Miezer. (Judg. viii. 2.) The vineyard was not to be pruned and dressed in the Sabbatical year. (Lev.... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1856 - 780 pages
...other articles (Lev. xix. 10.; Deut. xxiv. 21.; Isa. iii. 14., xvii. 6., xxiv. 13.; Mic. vii. 1.); and the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim was better than the vintage of Abiezer. ( Judg. viii. 2.) The vineyard was not to be pruned and dressed in the sabbatical year. (Lev. xxv.... | |
 | David Thomas - 1870 - 396 pages
...waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan." They responded at once to the call of duty, and the result was, " The gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim was better than the vintage of Abiezer." (/3) There is a miserable amount of little,mindedness amongst many professing Christians of the present... | |
 | Jean L. Watson - Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) - 1872 - 316 pages
...pulpit. "Say ye sae?" she replied, after listening to his complaint, "then hear what I ha'e to tell ye. The gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim was better than the vintage of Abiezer." It was in regard to this minister's sermon that, when GRA VES OF• A HO U&EHOLD. 49 one day questioning... | |
 | 1874 - 1020 pages
...devout women, and. that heretical England did more for the prisoner of the Vatican than Catholic France. The gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim was better than the vintage of Abiezer. It is, we think, the most noticeable thing in the condition of French parties, and the most true index... | |
 | 1903 - 1272 pages
...Is that possible ? Can little be greater than much ? Can much be better than more ? Quite possible. "The gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim" was "better than the vintage of Abi-ezer." That was so ages ago ; it is repeated in the personal history of to-day, and illustrated in the national... | |
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The vessels in which the wine was kept were, probably, for the most part, bottles, which were usually made of leather, or goat-skins, firmly sewed and pitched together. The Arabs pull the skin... 