 | Thomas Taylor - 1789 - 364 pagine
...families of the earth he bleffed *. And what Jacob difcovered, in his dream, when he faw a ladder fet upon the earth, and the top of it reaching to heaven, and the angels of God afcending and defcending ; + I fay, what he might fee in that blefTed difcovery, we are not told; but,... | |
 | Isaac Stockton Keith - 1816 - 470 pagine
...filled with the glory of the Lord, we may well say with Jacoh, when in divine vision he beheld a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reaching to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending on it ; " How awful is this place ! This is none other than the house of God, and this is... | |
 | Alicia Catherine Mant - 1830 - 250 pagine
...Ellen. God appeared to him at Bethel in a dream. And Jacob thought he saw a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon it. And did Jacob go to Bethel, Mamma ? Mamma. He did so, but a sad affliction happened to him while on... | |
 | 1843 - 552 pagine
...be to help forward devotion — to be, like Jacob's ladder, planted indeed on the earth, but its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon it. We shall find, on examination, that the buildings of this class, which have received the most unqualified... | |
 | Andrew Alexander Bonar, Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1839 - 608 pagine
...night, when he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and beheld a ladder " set upon the earth, and the top of it reaching to heaven." We read over the passage and applied the prayer to ourselves.f It was here, too, that Jeroboam set... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Horace Hooker - 1841 - 240 pagine
...their houses. When Jacob awoke from his sleep, in which he had dreamed of a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending: upon it, he was afraid, and said ; " How dreadful is this place. This is none other but the house of God, and... | |
 | Sarah Lawrence - 1844 - 294 pagine
...open air, with some stones for his pillow, when he dreamed that he saw a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon it. And the voice of the Lord was heard making the same promises to him that he had done to his grandfather,... | |
 | 1883 - 500 pagine
...number of children on the story of Jacob's dream at Bethel, in which he saw a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, and the angels of GOD ascending and descending upon it. He got on fairly well, until in an unguarded moment he asked the children why it was necessary for... | |
 | Andrew Alexander Bonar, Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1849 - 604 pagine
...night, when he took of the stones of that place, and put them fy his pillows, and beheld a ladder " set upon the earth, and the top of it reaching to heaven." We read over the passage and applied the prayer to ourselves.2 It was here, too, that Jeroboam set... | |
 | George Clayton (jr.) - 1851 - 270 pagine
...beholds immortality in the grave. — SLACK. JACOB'S LADDER ; its prophetic and spiritual meaning. The Rabbins have a conceit respecting the ladder which...agreeing with the seventy years captivity in Babylon, or two and fifty steps representing the time of the reign of the four Assyrian kings. In Jacob's ladder... | |
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And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 
