 I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by...  Estremadura, Leon, Gallicia, the Asturias, the Castiles (old and new), the ... - Page 917by Richard Ford - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it : Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he, by his wisdom, delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, wisdom is better than strength ; nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised,... | |
 | William King Tweedie - Women - 1855 - 332 pages
...king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man." Were it needful, we might present other examples from the Bible of the power of womanhood for... | |
 | Wesleyan pulpit - 1855 - 652 pages
...king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. Now, there was found in it a poor wise man, and he, by his wisdom, delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man." So that you see we are warranted in making a larger application of the term here used, than simply... | |
 | William King Tweedie - Women - 1855 - 334 pages
...king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man." Were it needful, we might present other examples from the Bible of the power of womanhood for... | |
 | Ada R. Habershon - Religion - 1957 - 244 pages
...things. Alas ! that it should ever be said of Him, as of the poor wise man in Solomon's parable, who "by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. . . The poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard." Joseph's character throughout... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a and said. Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, thai man. 16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised,... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - Religion - 1963 - 388 pages
...great king against it, beseiged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man." The application of the parable is obvious, as Habershon indicates. The world is attacked by Satan,... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 824 pages
...tower for the empty mob, received little honor" (Theognis 233-234); "There was found in [that city] a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no one remembered that poor man" (Koh 9,15). Sometimes themes come so close in the two collections as... | |
 | Daniel C. Fredericks - Religion - 1993 - 116 pages
...and a great king came against it, building great siegeworks against it. But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man (9. 14, 15). For Qoheleth, it is a matter of justice that honorable and... | |
 | Rolf P. Knierim - Religion - 1995 - 624 pages
...foolish king, who will no longer take advice" (Eccl 4:13); "Now there was found in it [a besieged city] a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man" (Eccl 9: 15). On occasion, especially in Isaiah and Jeremiah, the Old... | |
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