 | Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon - 1768 - 128 pages
...concerning the Definition of Old Babylon, fpeaks in this remarkable Manner of its approaching Ruin. ' " I will make a " Man more precious than fine Gold : " even a Man, than the Golden Wedge of " Ophir: their Children fhall be dafhed " to pieces before their eyes... | |
 | 1793 - 300 pages
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 | 1793 - 310 pages
...Jewifh poets, by a fingle circumftance, has far more emphatically pointed out the utter defolation of Babylon ? ''' I will make a man more precious than fine " gold ; eVi'j.va fingle perfon, than the golden wedge of liat feems to be particularly excellent in thefe... | |
 | Robert MacCulloch - Bible - 1794 - 738 pages
...have received ; and that the Lord of hofts hath purpofed to ftain the pride of all human glory. 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold ; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. What is here faid plainly intimates, that the flaughter mould be... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 240 pages
...horrors of a conquered city, by saying, that her /- heroes should be slain, her palaces overthrown, her i matrons ravished, and her whole race enslaved. But...utter desolation of Babylon : " I will make a man more preci" ous than fine gold ; even a single person than the " golden wedge of Ophir." What seems to be... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - Jews - 1806 - 520 pages
...Xenophon. page 581. as welt as by Isaiah xlv. 28. as also it is said of him by the same prophet, " I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of O|iliir," Is. xiii. 12. which character makes Xenopbon's most excellent... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay tow the haughtiness of the terrible. \'i ou wroth ? and why is thy man than the golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...stones with fair colours." Topaz, a beautiful yellow. And this gold colour is the colour of faith : " I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir." This is the colour of faith, or faithfulness : " I counsel thee... | |
 | John Murray - Sermons, American - 1812 - 426 pages
...will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. " I will make a man more precious than fine gold ; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir." And in the afternoon, upon Galatiuns iii. 13, 14. " Christ hath... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1814 - 466 pages
...Xenophon, as well as by Isaiah, Isa. xliv. 23 a« also it is said of him by the same prophet, that " I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir," Fsa. *iii. 12. which character makes Xcnophon's most excellent... | |
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Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 
