 | William Ladd - Arbitration (International law) - 1840 - 204 pages
...pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it" Micah 4: 1—4. Now, though we may... | |
 | William Ladd - Arbitration (International law) - 1840 - 204 pages
...pruning-hooks : nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree ; and none shall make them afraid : for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it." Micah 4: 1 — 4. Now, though we... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...fetters, and the master has lost his fears. Incendiarism and insurrections are now unknown. " They sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, and none maketh them afraid." This is the crowning compensation for doing the thing that is right in the eyes... | |
 | Luis de León - Religion - 1984 - 420 pages
...when he writes. Nation shail not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his figtree; And none shall make them afraid. (4:3-4) Peace, Christian peace, is our safe passport to safety and joy. "David sums it... | |
 | Šemaryāhû Ṭalmôn - Religion - 1986 - 262 pages
...prosperity, which is conceived, interestingly enough, in agricultural terms: Mic 4:4: Each man will sit under his vine and under his fig-tree and none shall make him afraid. The echo of other biblical representations of the 'Era of Redemption', nearly all culminating in the... | |
 | Forrest McDonald, Ellen Shapiro McDonald - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 240 pages
...His rendering of the Biblical definition of liberty, quoted earlier, is our favorite: 'They should sit every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree, and NONE SHOULD MAKE THEM AFRAID." Few men labored as effectively as he did to bring that desideratum to pass.... | |
 | Larry Ceplair - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 404 pages
...redound to his glory? But another string of the harp of prophecy vibrates to the song of deliverance: "But they shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree, and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it." The slave never can do this as long... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 846 pages
...scriptures" makes the right of property "the foundation of all the rest." In his version, " 'they should sit every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree, and NONE SHOULD MAKE THEM AFRAID.' " But what if these happy property owners are made to be afraid? Letters... | |
 | C. DeLacy Evans - Health & Fitness - 1996 - 236 pages
...for want of wisdom." Members of many religious denominations believe that there will be a day when " they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, and none shall make them afraid." " In that day, saith the I/ord of Hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under... | |
 | Jamie L. Bronstein - Business & Economics - 1999 - 396 pages
...slavery, he urged his readers to look to the West, where "we believe that when the Millenium shall come, they shall sit, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, and that it is the duty of all to do their part to produce such a state of things as is expected to exist... | |
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And he -shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off ; and they shall -beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.... 
