 | James Macknight - 1809 - 544 pagina’s
...they been compared by the prophet Joel (ii. 3.) to a great army ; who farther observes, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. " Having lived near a month in this manner, (like a /uvturtfut %I$K, or siuord "with ten thousand edges,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1809 - 412 pagina’s
...years of many generations. 3. A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before , them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and... | |
 | William Newcome - 1809 - 418 pagina’s
...years of || many generations. » 3 Before them a fire devoured), And behind a flame burnetb : The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them a * desolate wilderness: Yea, and nothing f shall escape them. |j Hcbr. ot generation and generjlion. * a wilderness of desolation,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1809 - 412 pagina’s
...the caterpiller eaten — A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them." The ravages of a hostile army, sometimes advancing in one great... | |
 | 1809 - 454 pagina’s
...conceives himself fully justified in applying to them the language of the prophet Joel : " the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate .TvUflcrness." Hereitisnatural for the thinking Reader to enquire how came the portion of English Nonconformists,... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - 1810 - 408 pagina’s
...clouds and thick darkV; 3. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burnt lh: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness,—' — V. o/. -They shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses j they shall enter into... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 474 pagina’s
...been ever the like — A tire de" voureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : " the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and " -behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing " shall " and the feasts of blood, with their priests out of the midst of their... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 412 pagina’s
...army of locusts; allured hither by the scent of prey, because, as the prophet expresses it, The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness*. • Thus far human reason, the true interpreter of Scripture, will allow us to infer. But further to... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pagina’s
...the prophei: Joel compares the holy land to paradise before the Chaldean army wasted it: " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them," Joel ii. 3. And I have often thought, pardon my digression, that,... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pagina’s
...years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them in as the appearance of horses ; and,... | |
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A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 
