 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 310 pages
...figuratively said to be cheered with the wine offered to him in his worship, because he was pleased with " Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou,...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
...promoted over the trees? 14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. 15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye...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
...wherewith by me they honor God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees ? And the trees said unto the fig-tree, Come thou, and reign over us. But the...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
...vine, come thou, and reign over us. And the vine said unto them, should I leave my wine, ir'iii'1! cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the...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... | |
 | John Gregory - Temperance - 1837 - 126 pages
...trees onto the bramble, Come thoa and rale over vs. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth re anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust...shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble and destroy the cedars of Lebanon." — JUDGES, ix. 14,15. KIND READER, are you in favor of temperance... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1838 - 488 pages
...mentioned in the most ancient fable on record, twelve hundred years before the Christian era, — " If not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanon," (Judges 9th chap.) About 700 years BC, they are called " the cedars of Libanon, high and... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 312 pages
...figuratively said to be cheered with the wine offered to him in his worship, because he was pleased with " Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou,...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.*" The pertinency and force of this beautiful parable, the oldest extant, hardly needs illustration. It... | |
 | David George Goyder - 1840 - 272 pages
...come, we wither away, and finish our course in eternal death. The OLIVE, the VINE, and the FIG — " The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over...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... | |
 | Henry Fitz - Sermons - 1840 - 512 pages
...the 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...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,... | |
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Come thou, and reign over us. And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the... 
