 | George Eduard Biber - 1840 - 540 pagine
...he who rests his faith in any degree upon tradition, is " trusting in the staff• of a broken reed, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it."a • Isa. xxxvi. 6. APPENDIX, NO. II. 395 APPENDIX, No. II. " Among the remedies proposed against... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1841 - 810 pagine
...Law." WELLBKLOVED.* Is. xxxvi. 6 : " Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it : so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him." " The same image is used concerning Egypt... | |
 | 1841 - 214 pagine
...nation. " Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it : so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him," 2 Kings xviii. 21. See also, Ezek. xxix.... | |
 | 1841 - 848 pagine
...false and deceitful, and our trusting in it is like " trusting in the staff of a broken reed, on which, if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it." Now, that in God is indeed our only help, is obvious from the single circumstance of his having interposed... | |
 | 1842 - 528 pagine
...the reed is the emblem of royalty? M Lo, thou trustest on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean it will go into his hand and pierce it : such is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all that trust on him." The reed was also the emblem of Upper... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pagine
...trust, that thou rebellest against me ? 6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt ; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it : so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. 7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD... | |
 | 1882 - 396 pagine
...alliance by the marriage of Solomon with Pharaoh's daughter, the Jews proved it to be a " broken reed, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it : so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him." Here the prophet Jeremiah spent the latter... | |
 | 1843 - 822 pagine
...written, Farmer Brown, that we might not be compelled to rest our hopes upon that broken reed tradition, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it ! To the sinner it is worse than worthless; for it leads him astray into paths ending in inevitable... | |
 | John Foxe, George Townsend - 1843 - 942 pagine
...since we put our confidence " in the staff of a broken reed, whereon " (according to the Prophet) " if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it," being defrauded of the expected subsidy, of mere necessity we were compelled under very heavy usury... | |
 | 1843 - 912 pagine
...me? 21 Now, behold, thou * trustest upon the staff of this bruised b reed, even upon Egypt, on which P so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD... | |
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Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. 
