 It was to me an hour of solemn communing and awful contemplation, met, as we seemed, on the threshold of the tomb to celebrate the cruel abandonment of the Divine One, surrounded by typical darkness and lamentations, prefiguring the agony of his soul,...  Diary of an Idle Woman in Italy - Page 67by Frances Minto Elliot - 1871Full view - About this book
 | 1855 - 518 pages
...black shadows ; the glorious roof, painted by Michael Angelo, indistinct and misty. ... It was to me an hour of solemn communing and awful contemplation,...was wrung from him, " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?" After a brief pause, the long-drawn notes of the Miserere echoed through the gloom —... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...black shadows ; the glorious roof, painted by Michael Angelo, indistinct and misty. ... It was to me an hour of solemn communing and awful contemplation,...was wrung from him, " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?" After a brief pause, the long-drawn notes of the Miserere echoed through the gloom —... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 516 pages
...lamentations, prefiguring the agony of his soul, when the bitter cry was wrung from him, " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?" After a brief pause, the long-drawn notes of the Miserere echoed through the gloom — soft, unearthly, spiritual — sounds... | |
 | Brownlow North - Christian life - 1866 - 304 pages
...one moment, except in that awful hour when He was wounded for our transgressions, and the agonizing cry was wrung from Him, — " My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me ? " did our blessed Saviour lose sight of His heavenly Father. No matter what the suffering,... | |
 | X. H., Mrs. Brewster Macpherson - Meditations - 1870 - 390 pages
...anguish to which love brought Him on the cross. There, as one with the fallen, the exceeding great and bitter cry was wrung from Him, 'My God, my God ! why hast Thou forsaken Me ?' But is such a cry, a cry that the slaves of sin, the holders of corruption, would utter... | |
 | Frances Minto Elliot - Italy - 1871 - 348 pages
...lamentations, prefiguring the agony of his soul, when the bitter cry was wrung from Him, " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? " After a brief...long-drawn notes of the " Miserere" echoed through the gloom—soft, unearthly, spiritual—sounds as of celestial souls suffering the torments of the damned,... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Apologetics - 1883 - 350 pages
...deepest woe of which our nature is capable was transcended by the Saviour's anguish upon the cross, when the bitter cry was wrung from Him, " My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me ? " 6 There was in Jesus nothing of the stoic's disdain of suffering. He was the "man of... | |
 | Herrick Johnson - Church group work - 1908 - 554 pages
...person — why should He walk that path of tears and blood until at last in utter anguish of soul the cry was wrung from Him, " My God ! My God ! Why hast Thou forsaken Me," if no great issues hung in the balance, and everlasting life and death are figments of... | |
 | 1844 - 432 pages
...undergoing the sufferings that yet awaited him : look at him when he hung upon the cross, and the agonizing cry was wrung from him, " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" — look at these scenes of wo, and reflect that the anticipated joy of bestowing glory,... | |
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