 | Thomas Paine - Bible - 1810 - 504 pages
...the burning lake. But Sostratus begs of Minos to hear him. " And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a God...talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or, perad venture, he sleepeth, and must be awaked!" Under this sanction I present the reader with the... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1810 - 660 pages
...imagine any thing more ludicrous and satyricfiUhan Elijah's advice to the besotted priests of Baal ? He mocked them and said, " Cry aloud, for he is a God...talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must "%p awaked." The style of the ancient prophets is remarkable for... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 626 pages
...prophets wanted more fervour in their devotion, and a little more lip labour. " Cry aloud," saith he, " for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey ; or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked," 1 Kings xviii. 27. In like manner did the Saviour treat... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 774 pages
...caviller, or of Bome sufferer, who perhaps was whispering a comfortless surmise, " Perhaps the saint is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked;" he says, No! no! banish the unworthy suspicion—can... | |
 | Thomas Cogan - Christianity - 1813 - 528 pages
...Baal hear us; but there was no voice, nor any that answered. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, cry aloud, for he is a god,...talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey ; peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their... | |
 | Greek literature - 1813 - 442 pages
...worshipped in silence. Thus are we to understand Elijah—' And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said,—' Cry aloud : for he is a...either he is talking, or he is pursuing ; or he is on a journey ; or, peradventure, he sleepethj and must be awaked.' This superstitious notion of the... | |
 | 1843 - 628 pages
...examples : The first occurs in 1 Kings xviii. 27Elijah, in mocking the priests of Baal, tells them " He is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked," meaning nothing more than to expose his impotence in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1815 - 382 pages
...it. The prophet Elijah, when he challenged the priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity, " mocked them, and said : Cry aloud, for he is a god...talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.'' Exclamations and Irony are sometimes united: as in... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1815 - 598 pages
...Prophets of Baal, when they were invoking that idol to fend fire from heaven to confume the facrifice; cry aloud, for he is a God, either he is talking, or he is pitrfuing, or he is on a journey, or peradoenture hejleepeth, and inuji be awaked. • The Synecdoche... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...made. 27. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, " Cry " aloud : for he (/) it a god, either he is " talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in " a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, " and must be awaked." 28. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after... | |
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mocked them, and said, cry aloud: for he is a God : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradveuture he 
