 | 1840 - 408 pagine
...his door. We may say of these sons of Zion, ' Her Naaaritea wer< purer than snow, they «ere winter than milk they were more ruddy in body than rubies their polishing was of sapphire, but now they «re not known in the streets.' W must here also observe, that if but one mem ber of the... | |
 | Benjamin Parsons - 1840 - 372 pagine
...drank wine, in their fine healthy appearance. It is said of the Nazarites, who never drank wine, that they were " more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire." What fine models of the good effects of total abstinence these men must have been to the whole Jewish... | |
 | Benjamin Parsons - 1841 - 152 pagine
...glass that has been his destruction, has driven him from his door. We may say of these sons of Zion, " Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter...body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire, but now they are not known in the streets." We must here also observe, that if but one member of the... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pagine
...no nishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. 7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter...body than rubies, their. polishing was of sapphire : 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal ; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to... | |
 | 1843 - 700 pagine
...leprosy, and virulent sores; while in the Nazarite, whose surpassing beauty is celebrated by Jeremiah, " Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter...body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire," and their health and vigour exemplified in Samuel, Samson, and the Baptist, there was held up to view... | |
 | George Rapall Noyes - 1837 - 316 pagine
...coral was their body ; 8 Their visage was of sapphire. Now darker than a coal is their countenance ; they are not known in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones ; it is become dry, like wood. 9 More fortunate are the slain by the sword than the slain by famine ; For these... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1845 - 98 pagine
...That was overthrown in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. ''• Her Nazarites were purer than enow, they were whiter than milk, " They were more ruddy...streets : " Their skin cleaveth to their bones : it is witheredvit is become like a stick. • " They that be slain with the sword are better than they that... | |
 | Isaac Williams, Antoine SUCQUET - 1845 - 438 pagine
...polishing was of sapphire ; her religious men, I say, some of them become apostate, and her priests. Their visage is blacker than a coal ; they are not known in the streets. For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of some amongst her priests?, Thy wrath, O Lord, hath... | |
 | Robert Hawker (D.D.) - 1846 - 890 pagine
...Jeremiah speaks of them in his book of Lamentations in a very affecting manner. " Her Nazariteg (saitb he) were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk,...blacker than a coal, they are not known in the streets," Lain. iv. 7, 8. So the prophet Amos; "I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1847 - 284 pagine
...glass that has been his destruction, has driven him from his door. We may say of these sons of Zion, " Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter...body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire, but now they are not known in the streets." We must here also observe, that if but one member of the... | |
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Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. 
