 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 310 pages
...And the, bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.*" The pertinency and force of this beautiful parable, the oldest extant, hardly needs illustration. It... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Bible - 1834 - 276 pages
...And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow ; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. 19 Now therefore if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye... | |
 | Sabbath - 1835 - 234 pages
...And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. COMPARISON. ISA. xxxii. 2. — And a man shall be as an hidingplace from the wind, and a covert from... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1836 - 790 pages
...to maintain the authority of a king, any more than the bramble could atibrd a shadow or shelter,) ' and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon (words that carry a lively image of Abimelech's ostentatious spirit, and menaces to take severe vengeance... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 744 pages
...And the bramble said unto the trees, if in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow ; and if not, let fire come out...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon."* How nearly the apologue and instruction by action are related, may be seen in the account of Jeremiah's... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 312 pages
...And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.*" The pertinency and force of this beautiful parable, the oldest extant, hardly needs illustration. It... | |
 | Henry Fitz - Sermons - 1840 - 512 pages
...sceptre, except the Bramble, it spoke, and said, " If in truth ye anoint me king over you, come, put your trust in my shadow ; and if not, let FIRE come out...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon." Reader, I quote this parable from the sacred testimony, for the sole purpose of asking a question,... | |
 | David George Goyder - 1840 - 272 pages
...And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow ; and if not, let fire come out...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon." (Judges ix. 8 — 15.) This is one of the most beautiful and instructive parables in the whole of the... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1841 - 358 pages
...And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow ; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. The sense of which words is, that we must acquiesce to their sayings, whom we have truly constituted... | |
 | John Kitto - Jews - 1841 - 640 pages
...in their application — " If ye truly intend to anoint me king over you, come, take shelter under my shadow ; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon." That they might be at no loss to understand his meaning, Jotham gave the obvious " moral," in which... | |
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Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the... 
