...One is disposed to ask whether Job of old had a similar indication in memory, recalling the timo ' when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured...aborigines of the land. At their stage of thought tho phenomenon was of the supernatural order. In the Geological iSc.rcf т/ of Pennsylvania we read...

...upon my tabernacle ; 5 When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [ When] my children [were] about me ; 6 When I washed my steps with butter, And the rock poured me out rivers of oil; Job seems again to pause, as if awaiting a reply from the friends, but none being forthcoming, he soliloquises...

...with a tent-pin and a hammer. Job refers to the time when he anointed his feet, or as he expressed it, "washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil." "Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter." The reader can pick out the various probabilities...

...walked through darkness ; as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was on my tabernacle; when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil I My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch." But the good man...

...righteousness, and it •clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadern." What is meant by, " I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil ?" It is a figurative expression to shew his great prosperity. We read of a land flowing with milk...

...tabernacles as a Friend, and all his children, bright and beautiful, clustered around him. Ver. 6.—" When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil." For " butter " some read " cream." The language indicates luxuriousnesa. The cream was so plentiful...

...of God was upon my tabernacle ; when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me ; when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil ! ' Plaining brother, have thy mercies ravelled out for want of hemming ? Has God withdrawn them, because...

...of God was upon my tabernacle ; when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me ; when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil ... Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. My root was spread...

...days ' of my childhood —when the Almighty was yet with me : ' when / was in. my father's house : when I washed my steps ' with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil.' You set before me your reasons, enforced by the opinion of your honoured mother, why I should think...

...days ' of my childhood — when the Almighty was yet with me : ' when / iv as in my father's house : when I washed my steps ' with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil.' You set before me your reasons, enforced by the opinion of your honoured mother, why I should think...