 | 1831 - 548 pages
...Knowledge." " A fire devoureth before them," says the prophet Joel, "and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The sound of their wings is as the sound of chariots, of many horses... | |
 | John Hartley - Greece - 1831 - 426 pages
...chastisements which can befal guilty nations ; and up to this hour the visitation is experienced. The land was as the garden of Eden before them ; and behind them a desolate wilderness : (Joel ii. 3.) Recent events might almost intimate, that the language also is applicable : For all... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...him. Ezek. xxxi. 8, 9. A fire devoureth before them, (the. " locusts") and behind them a name burneth. The land is as the garden of Eden before them : and behind them a desolate wilderness. Joel ii. 3. Kattward, &c.] So he (God) drove out the man : and he placed at the east of the garden... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 362 pages
...the Bible. Thus, in Joel ii. 2, &c. " A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them. The sound of their wings is as the sound of chariots, of many... | |
 | Thomas Whittemore - Bible - 1832 - 390 pages
...destroy Jerusalem is thus described : "Afire devoureth before them, and behind "them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before - them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them." Jesus saw a pcculiar fitness therefore in choosing fire as a... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 446 pages
...So justly have they been compared by the prophet Joel to a great army; who further observes, that ' the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.' " Having lived near a month in this manner, like a sword with ten thousand edges, to which they have... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - Bible - 1832 - 472 pages
...to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 356 pages
...the Bible. Thus, in Joel ii. 2, &c. " A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them. The sound of their wings is as the sound of chariots, of many... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...where the insect has accordingly a proverbial reputation. " The land," says the Prophet Joel, •' is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness — yea, and nothing shall escape them." Again— " they shall run like mighty men ; they shall climb... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - Theology - 1832 - 436 pages
...exertion, traversed the country, and mowed down, in their march, the staff of life. " The land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." Had they continued their devastations, we could have expected little but "cleanness of teeth in all... | |
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A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 
