 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...numerous, that by evading one, a ¿ti »ball only fall into another. Ко Amos 19. " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the...and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." (e) v. 1 8. " Open," " to send forth God's judgments." (/) v. 23. " The moon," and " the sun,"... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1822 - 362 pages
...Lord ! to what end is it for you? The day of the Lord is darkness and not light. As if a man did flee -from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the...leaned his hand on the •wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light ? even very dark, and no brightness in... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...LORD is darkness, dj«.xxx.r , . ,- ,. JJ Joclii.2. and not light. zeph.i. 15. 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the...and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness... | |
 | John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 600 pages
...would not fear this king of nations? He that contends with him shall find it, ' As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned upon a w;ill, iuul a serpent bit him;' Amos v. 18, 19. No flying, no biding, no contending. Worms kill... | |
 | John Callaway - 1827 - 110 pages
...rings about them, which press out the grain, but damage the reed. Amos,v. 19. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the...and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. The walls of the houses in Ceylon and India, being mud and sticks, usually unplastered, (the marks... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1828 - 408 pages
...! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the...and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness ?"... | |
 | Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1828 - 464 pages
...judgment. " It shall be to them as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into his house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him," Amos v. 19 ; " and though they be hid from my siht in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command... | |
 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 592 pages
...his aid. And if they would not, they ought. For their fleeing from trouble, is as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the...and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Let me, then, beg these sons of sorrow to inquire — whether the event they long for will be... | |
 | Harriet Livermore - Indians of North America - 1831 - 344 pages
...Lord; for to them it is a day of darkness and not of light: their case must be "as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand upon the wall, and a serpent bit him." It is not so with the humble believers in literal scripture... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - Bible - 1831 - 296 pages
...frequently find a shelter in them. To this the prophet alludes where he says : ' As if a man went into his house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." (Amos, v. 19.) " It is said in the Gospels, that our Lord's disciples prepared an ' upper room'... | |
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Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit... 
