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. Putnam's Monthly - Página 2801855Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Robert Culbertson - 1826 - 584 páginas
...' They march every one in his ways, they do not break their ranks; neither does one thrust another. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness,' Joel ii. 3, 7, 8. And certainly no plague of locusts can be so destructive as one that... | |
| Temple Chevallier - 1827 - 454 páginas
...day of clouds and of thick darkness. 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 ... Before their face the people shall be much pained;... | |
| William Carpenter - 1824 - 604 páginas
...justly have they been compared by the prophet Joel (ii. 3.) to a great army, who further observes, that the land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. — SHAW'S Travels into Barbary and the Levant, p. 187. 4to, Lend. 1757. ISAIAH, rii. *>.... | |
| 1827 - 468 páginas
...irresistible, never took the field. " A fire devoured before them, and behind a flame burned. The land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing escaped them." Prodigies of valour could avail nothing in the face of... | |
| 1828 - 506 páginas
...represented as being employed by God for the punishment of a guilty people. It is ^here said, (ver. 3,) that "the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." This affecting description is strikingly illustrated by a passage in captain Andrews's... | |
| Frederick William Beechey, Henry William Beechey - 1828 - 696 páginas
...doubt, were fond of eating them ; in so Joel (ii. 3,) 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 /xi<gio<jToptov |i^or-*, or sword with... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 páginas
...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... | |
| Esther Copley - 1828 - 464 páginas
...mountains, a great people and a strong : 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." Locusts consume like a general conflagration ; 'wherever... | |
| 1828 - 580 páginas
...ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE. JOEL, ii. 3 — 10. AJirt dtTmiretk before them; and behind them aflame burneth: the land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yta, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses;... | |
| 1828 - 588 páginas
...ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE. JOJÍL, u. 3—10. J)frr. dcToureth before them; and behind them, aflame Irurneth: the land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a il- suinte wilderness : yea, and nuthing shall escape them. The appearance uf them is as tkr. appearance... | |
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