...which quar1 " I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help." Psalm raud. 1. * " He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness...his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters,...

...was carnal, $c. But rhetorical propriety is not theological exactness. David may say as a poet, " God was wroth : there went up a smoke out of his nostrils,...of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it." But it would be ridiculous In take these expressions in a literal sense. Nor is it much less absurd...

...shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. 30 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire...out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 31 He bowed the heavena also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub,...

...what shall happen, when the earth shall tremble, and the dead shall be raised at the last day. " 8. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire...out of his mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it; or, fire out of his mouth devoured, with burning coals from before him." The farther effects of God's...

...are indeed very strong and hyperbolical; they are similar to those at Psal. xviii. 8. " There went a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it." Ovid, Metaph. viii. does not scruple to paint the euraged boar in figures equally bold. " Fulmen ab...

...taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones." Psalm Uxxiii. 1-3. t " There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire...of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it." 2 Sam. xxii. 9. t " Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him...

...at the majesty of God. " The earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved, and were shaken, because he was wroth. There went up a...smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth much overlooked. The universality of these appearances, occurring at the same time in England, France,...

...Ifc. But rhetorical propriety is not theological exactness. David may sajas a Poet, "God was wiotb: There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire...out of his mouth devoured ; coals were kindled by it :" but it would be ridiculous to take these expressions in a literal sense. Nor is it much less absurd...

...Then the earth shook and trembled j The foundations of heaven moved and shook, Because he was wroth. 9 There went up a smoke "out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured : Coals were kindled bv it. 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down ; And darkness was under his feet. 11 And he rode...

...trembled ; The foundations of heaven moved and shook, Because he was wroth. 9 There went up a smoke I2out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured : Coals were kindled by it. 10 He bowed the heavens aNo, and came down ; And darkness was under hi'i feet. 1 1 And he rode upon...