| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1793 - 412 pages
...Garden of Eden. " He beheld all the plain well " watered as the Garden of the Lord e. " The land was as the Garden of Eden " before them, but behind them a defolate " wildernefs f." The prophet Ezekiel, at the command of God, for an admonition to Pharaoh, thus portrays the pride... | |
| George Horne - 1793 - 410 pages
...Garden of Eden. " He beheld all the plain well " watered as the Garden of the Lord e. " The land was as the Garden of Eden " before them, but behind them a defolate " wildernefs f." The prophet Ezekiel, at the command of God, for an admonition to Pharaoh, thus portrays the pride... | |
| George Horne - Sermons, English - 1794 - 460 pages
...the Garden of Eden. " He beheld all the plain well watered as the Garden of the Lord, f The land was as the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them a defolate wilder* nefs." J The prophet Ezekiel, at the command of God, for an admonition to Pharoah, thus portrays... | |
| Alexander Knox - Ireland - 1799 - 272 pages
...Holland, have, unqueftionably, the beft Government in the wor}d ; for (to ufe the words of the Prophet) " The land is as the Garden of Eden before " them, but...elfewhere. If we wifh to fee it, as Wolfey fays, in Sliakfpeare, " bearing its blufhing honours thick upon it," we muft take a view of it in Spain : and... | |
| Augustin Calmet - Bible - 1814 - 636 pages
...town." A great [rather, a numerous] people and a strong : their numbers all our extracts agree in. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness: "they eat up all sorts of grain, and grass, cabbage leaf, lettuce, blossoms of... | |
| W. Ettrick - Bible - 1814 - 584 pages
...desolation, as if they had been privileged of heaven to butcher the supernumerary inhabitants of the earth. " The land is as the garden of Eden before them^ but behind them a desolate wilderness." The actions of these monsters, and the success that should attend upon their... | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg - Bible - 1836 - 406 pages
...fire hath consumed the habitations of the wilderness," Joel i. 19, 20. "The day of Jehovah cometh, the land is as the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness," Joel ii. 3. " See ye the word of Jehovah, have I been a wilderness to Israel,... | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg - 1836 - 396 pages
...fire hath consumed the habitations of the wilderness," Joel i. 19, 20. "The day of Jehovah cometh, the land is as the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness," Joel ii. 3. " See ye the word of Jehovah, have I been a wilderness to Israel,... | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg - Bible - 1836 - 402 pages
...fire hath consumed the habitations of the wilderness," Joel i. 19, 20. "The day of Jehovah cometh, the land is as the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness," Joel ii. 3. " See ye the word of Jehovah, have I been a wilderness to Israel,... | |
| George Jennings Davies - 1854 - 116 pages
...leaf. I can give you no better description of it than in the words of the Prophet Joel, (ii. 3) : — " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them." Napoleon kept up his intentions of pillage... | |
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