| sir Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 442 páginas
...whilst those before me had but now appeared to bear witness, in the words of the prophet, that once " the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs .... his height was exalted above all the... | |
| Elias De La Roche Rendell - 1851 - 334 páginas
...deep. It is in consequence of this signification, that the prophet, speaking of the Assyrian, says, " The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high ; " (Ezek. xxxi. 4 ;) because, by the Assyrian, is denoted the rational principle ; the waters are... | |
| 1853 - 390 páginas
...comparison of the glory of Assyria in her most " high and palmy state. ' " Behold the Assyrian was aa a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a...The deep set him up on high, with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. " Therefore... | |
| Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 346 páginas
...where it grew. And again, as he describes the greatness and the fall of the Assyrian power. Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs. The waters nourished... | |
| Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 168 páginas
...where it grew. And again, as he describes the greatness and the fall of the Assyrian power. Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs. The waters nourished... | |
| Andrew Bruce Davidson - 1916 - 486 páginas
...say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like 3 in thy greatness? Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches,...and of an high stature; and his top was among the 1thick 4 boughs. The waters nourished him, the deep made him to grow : her rivers ran round about her... | |
| Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1917 - 384 páginas
...which might be traced in many a reincarnation. The image, at any rate, is found in Ezekiel : " Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches...high stature, and his top was among the thick boughs " (Ezekiel xxxi. 3). When all is said and done, is it so very foolish, as we sit wool-gathering and... | |
| Helen A. Ballard - 1917 - 200 páginas
...dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it. —Ezrf:. 17:22-24. July 15 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon With fair branches, And with a shadowing shroud, [114] And of an high stature; And his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made him great, The... | |
| Charles Taze Russell - 1918 - 650 páginas
...Christendom (Egypt) and her multitudes. What comparison could be made of her greatness! 31:3. Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar In Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. — Behold, Satan and his counterfeit Christian... | |
| John Milton - 1918 - 236 páginas
...shroud." Another very common meaning was ' the shelter of the branches of a tree;' cf. Ezek. xxxi. 8, "a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature." 219. Anthems. See // Pen. 163, note. no. Sable-stoled. ie robed in black; cf. // Pen. 35, and Tennyson's... | |
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