s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it. Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Page 1411857Full view - About this book
| 1848 - 796 pages
...since the days of Job, and long before his time, " Satan" has been prowling about for mischief, " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." " Seeking whom he may devour," is his work. And to accomplish this, he has so spread his " wiles" and... | |
| Clericus M.A., Cantab, pseud - 1848 - 960 pages
...well as rich; when her children found time to sit still, and were not ever like the Evil One, " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it ;"* when the maypole was yet standing, and the dance or merry game upon the green still known ; when... | |
| 1849 - 356 pages
...Christ. 3. There is incessant diligence in the accomplishment of his purposes. He is constantly going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it. No part of the world is unvisited hy him, and no part of it unknown to him. There seems a kind of omniscience... | |
| 1849 - 898 pages
...power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the •children of disobedience, is constantly going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it. "Yes," some would be ready to say, <; in America." Ah! John, 'tis nearer than that his walking to and... | |
| lady Charlotte Murdoch Wake - 1850 - 330 pages
...he is always spoken of as a tempter to evil, and in the book of Job he describes himself as " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it," (Job i. 7.) but the instant that Christ begins his ministry for the setting up of the kingdom of God,... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1851 - 148 pages
...renewed under the sceptre of the Redeemer. Satan shall not always boast among the sons of God of " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it," as though it lay helpless beneath his tread. Earth, which sustained the cross, and absorbed the blood,... | |
| Gardiner Spring - Bible - 1851 - 400 pages
...power. They represent him as a " roaring lion going about seeking whom he may devour ;" — as " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it ;" and as " deceiving the nations? and the " whole world." His powers of locomotion are riot known... | |
| 1852 - 388 pages
...said to Satan, From whence dost thou come ? And Satan answered JEHOVAH and said, From rapidly going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it. 8 And JEHOVAH said to Satan, Hast thou attentively observed my servant Job? For there is none like... | |
| George Smalridge (bp. of Bristol.) - 1852 - 580 pages
...he came among the saints of God to present himself before the Lord, than he was whilst he was going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it. The happiness and misery of pure spirits hath no relation, that we know of, to the place where they... | |
| 1853 - 886 pages
...Scripture illustration, he " walks up and down." " Then Satan answered the Lord and said, from going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." — (Job i. 7.) sources," unless Satan, like himself, has various " developments ;" for in the same... | |
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