...prophecy, the lively oracle, which saith, " Bind up the testi" mony, seal the law among my disciples." " And when they shall say unto you, Seek " unto them...a people seek unto their God ? for the " living to the dead ? To the law and to the " testimony ; if they speak not according to this " word, it is because...

...information concerning truth and duty. It is therefore said, in the verse preceding the text, " They say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards, that peep, and that mutter." Blind prophets, lying oracles, and false deities, were the sources on which the Pagan world have relied...

...sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread, says the prophet. And when they shall say unto you, seek unto them that...not a people seek unto their God ? for the living to the dead 1 («) He who was the Great Lawgiver, and whose divine presence went with the Is(m) Lev. 1?....

...vii. 86. intimation we have of divination in Is. viii. 19, where God says to his ancient people, " When they shall say unto you, seek unto them that...that mutter : should not a people seek unto their God ?" Now, in this passage, we have, 1st, familiar spirits, riYSfct Abuth, or consulters of Aub, already...

...is a fool." Prov. xxviii. 26. 5. Scripture proposes itself as our standard, Isaiah viii. 19. 20: " And when they shall say unto you seek unto them that have familiar spirits, should not a people seek unto their God ? To the Law and to the Testimony, if they speak not according...

...because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers, like the Philistines. — Isa. ii. 6. When they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that...a people seek unto their God ? for the living, to the dead? — Isa. viii. 19. Stand thon with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries,...

...Barbarians, but also from ( Isaiah, viii. 19. ) where the prophet says, " And when they shall say unta you, seek unto them that have familiar Spirits, and...that PEEP and that MUTTER : should not a people seek ««*o their God ? " The Astrologers had their name from a different method of divination : for their...

...one of the abominations mentioned by the prophet, of which he advises the Israelites to beware ; " When they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that...familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep* and mutter, should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?" Isaiah, viii. 19To terrify...

...the east, and are soothsayers, like the Philistines. — Isa. ii. 6. When they shall say unto yon, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter : shonld not a people seek unto their God ? for the living, to the dead? — Isa. viii. 19. Stand thou...

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