| William Richards - 1812 - 632 páginas
...homely and unlettered inhabitants ready to lift up their voices and cry out with the ancient Lycaonians, "The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men!"— or with a celebrated English port, "Descending gods find their Elysium here! " * —The enormous price... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 páginas
...first and second ward, they came unto the iron gate} Sfc, HABMER, vol. jp 207, No. 490. — xiv. 11. The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.] It appears from numberless passages in the heathen writers, that they supposed the gods often descended... | |
| 1813 - 580 páginas
...not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. g Acts xiv. 11. And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying, in the speech...The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. Ver. 15. And saying, Sirs, why do ye these rit*, again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up. X.... | |
| Alden Bradford - 1813 - 544 páginas
...saying in the Ian* Lveaonia borders on Piaidia eastward. guage of Lycaonia, The gods are come dour. 12 to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul Mercurius, because 13 he was the chief speaker.* Then the priest of Jupiter being before their city,'brought oxen and... | |
| 1813 - 594 páginas
...miraculously cured by Paul. " When the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men ;" and they immediately prepared to pay him divine honors, Acts xiv. 8 to 18. But in the very next verse we arc... | |
| Hannah Neale - 1813 - 394 páginas
...dear. But the people, when they saw the, miracle that was wrought, cried out, in their own language, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. Barnabas they called Jupiter, and Paul Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker: according to the... | |
| Paul Wright - 1814 - 428 páginas
...been initiated into the superstitious customs of the Heathens, cried out, in the speech of Lycoania, " The Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." And accordingly they called Barnabas Jupiter, because of his venerable gravity, and, Paul, Mercury, from... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1814 - 524 páginas
...when he had healed the cripple by a mere word of command, the people cried out with exalted voices, * The gods are come * down to us in the likeness of men:' immediately they made a Mercury of St. Paul, they turned I • • n:tbas into Jupiter, and the priests... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 páginas
...(He had cured a man impotent in his feet, who had been a cripple from his mother's womb) they lift up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to ns in the likeness of men," Acts xiv. 11. But " when there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and... | |
| Alexander Murray (Schoolmaster) - 1815 - 564 páginas
...condescension in their gods; for when Paul and Barnabas had cured the impotent man at Lystra, they cried " The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." They wondered at so great condescension, but never imagined that their gods had less divinity, or were... | |
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