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
| Thomas B. Gould, William Hodgson - Quakers - 1860 - 452 pages
...sanctuary of our Lord, and out of the reach of the enemy of souls, who is continually on the alert, going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it. His power is a limited one. The power of the Lord is above and over all, almighty, eternal, and incomprehensible.... | |
| Worthington Smith - Congregational churches - 1861 - 390 pages
...he came, and what the manner of his life. The other replied that he was a wandering spirit, " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." Perceiving that his chosen abode was on the earth, and among the sons of men, God asks him about his... | |
| Revelation - 1863 - 828 pages
...every name under heaven enemies to God, and you will understand this answer of Satan, " From going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." Zechariah speaks of Satan in the same manner, (i. 10.) Even in St. Peter, Satan could come to present... | |
| William Leonard Parsons - Conversion - 1864 - 324 pages
...of Satan with the souls of men may not be necessary to the accomplishment of his purposes. " Going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it," he may lodge some of his seed-lies in a man's mind in early life, and leave them to bring forth their... | |
| Thomas Edward Kebbel - Great Britain - 1864 - 432 pages
...Again, the motto of the poem of Satan is taken from the book of Job : ' Whence comest thou ? From going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it.' And certainly Mr. Robert Montgomery has not failed to make his hero go to and fro, and walk up and... | |
| Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1864 - 684 pages
...years in which the flood was delayed. God singles out Job, in answer to Satan who had been w going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it, as his domain and his kingdom. " u How greatly Daniel's piety and prayer weighed in that scale, wherein... | |
| Howard Williams - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1865 - 300 pages
...superior in the eternal strife ; to imagine the Evil One, as in the days of the Man of Uz, ' going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it.' It is come to that at the present day, according to a more rational observer of the seventeenth century,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - Poetry - 1866 - 322 pages
...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. Bishop Latimer will have him to have been a bishop, but to me that other calling would appear more... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...happily. The motto to the poem of Satan is taken from the Book of Job: "Whence comest thou? From going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." And certainly Mr. Robert Montgomery has not failed to make his hero go to and fro, and walk up and... | |
| Elizabeth Prentiss - Boys - 1868 - 318 pages
...and God asked him if he knew Job.' " What made God ask that ? " " Why, Satan said he had been going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it. And then God asked him if he had seen Job, and knew what a good man he was." " What did Satan say ?... | |
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