 | Godfrey Higgins - 1874 - 610 páginas
...only stood for the sun as emblem of the procreative power of nature. Thus, in Genesis xlix. 3, Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of MY STRENGTH: principium roboris mei:2 ^iK auni, JTWil u-rasit. It meant the beginning or the first exercise of his... | |
 | F M. Fearnley - 1875 - 316 páginas
...my husband will love me." l In after years, Jacob himself extolled his firstborn, saying, " Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power."2 How far Leah's hope was fuelled, we know not... | |
 | Walter John Trower (bp. of Gibraltar.) - 1875 - 448 páginas
...Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power : 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel ; because... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1875 - 480 páginas
...taken from him ; for his father Israel, prophesying concerning his sons, said of Reuben, " Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, — unstable as water, thou shalt not excel, because thou wen test up to il\j fathers bed ; then defiledst... | |
 | William Hay M.H. Aitken - 1876 - 364 páginas
...himself. I wont say at the last, though ; at all events, he began by having it. Jacob says : " Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength ; the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: unstable as water thou shalt not excel." This was... | |
 | John William Willcock - 1876 - 548 páginas
...treated as 1 tribe, Joseph ; perhaps to make room for Levi in the duodecado. Genesis xlix. 3. Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power : unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. 5. Simeon... | |
 | Paul Edward Kretzmann - 1923 - 824 páginas
...natures, but above all according to the providence and will of God, are now set forth. V. 3. Reuben, q excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. Jacob speaks with deep feeling: Reuben, my first-born... | |
 | Thomas Sawyer Spivey - 1925 - 672 páginas
...prophecy. Jacob, as he told his twelve sons what would befall them in the last days, said to Reuben : "Thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. "Thou shalt not excel ; because thou defilest my... | |
 | Samuel Albert Brown - 1925 - 890 páginas
...Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few. GENESIS XLIX:3-4— BC 1689 * 3 fl Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because... | |
 | 1927 - 462 páginas
...frrmu*um of Tk* Block PttUukuig PATRIOTIC WKTRY LOVE OF TRIBE AND COUNTRY TRIBAL SONGS OF RErBEN REUBEN, thou art my first-born, My might, and the beginning of my strength. The excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel." Let Reuben... | |
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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. 
