 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 592 pages
...too light, to flout their zealous devotion. He laughs at their tears, and plays upon their carnest ; Cry aloud ; for he is a God : either he is talking,...is sleeping, and must be awaked. Scorns and taunts are the best answers, for serious idolatry. Holiness will bear us out, in disdainful scoffs and bitterness,... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - Baptists - 1808 - 428 pages
...but himself. Elijah uses the same mode of ex* pression to the false prophets, (1 Kings, xviii. 27.) " Cry aloud ; for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." The words, taken in this sense, lead... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - Baptists - 1808 - 426 pages
...Elijah uses the same mode of expression to the false prophets, ( 1 Kings, xviii. 27.) " Cry aloud 5 for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." The words, taken in this sense, lead... | |
 | James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...the priests of Baal, mocked them with the most pointed irony, or ridicule, and said of their god, " Cry aloud, for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey; or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." (1 Kings xviii. 27.) A similar passage... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...leaped upon the altar which was made. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, ael said unto Gkleon, Rule thou over us, both thnu, in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. 28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...leaped upon the altar which was made. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them* and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sJeepeth, and must be awaked. And. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Bible - 1810 - 600 pages
...ludicrous and satyrical than Elijah's advice to the besotted priests of Baal ? He mocked them and said, " Cry aloud, for he is a God ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked." The style of the ancient prophets is... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1810 - 322 pages
...when he challenged the priests nf Baal to prove the truth of their deity, ' Mocked them, and said : ' Cry aloud, for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be waked.' Exclamations and Irony are sometimes... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...pricfts of Baal to prove the truth of their deity : For it is faid cxprefs'y, " He mocked them, and laid, Cry aloud. for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is puriuins. or he is on a journey, or peradvcnture he ilecpeth, and muft be awaked." And Solomon take-;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1810 - 352 pages
...the truth of their deity, -'' Mocked them? and said : Cry aloud, for he is a 532 APPENDIX. (Figures. god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be waked." Exclamations and Irony are sometimes... | |
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And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. 
