 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...yet it continues not : Why so ? " For it happened to them according to the true proverb, the dog is returned to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire." Mark, the dog turns again to his own vomit. This proceeds from some pang in... | |
 | John Kenrick - Bible - 1817 - 650 pages
...But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire." The short epistle of Jude bears a striking resemblance throughout, to this chapter in the second Epistle... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 504 pages
...reconciles the quarrel betwixt him and his lust again. If they fall out, they will fall in again : "The dog returned to his vomit, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." But an upright soul hates sin in another manner ; and in this hatred of sin... | |
 | Washington Society (Boston, Mass.) - Fourth of July celebrations - 1823 - 156 pages
...genuine Republican virtue and firmness as his be duly appreciated. 0 MASSACHUSETTS — " The d<>g has returned to his vomit, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." 10 GOVERNOR CORK — " First, my fear — then, my courtesy — -and last,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his vomit again ; and the sow, that was •washed, to her wallowing in the mire." The heart that is desperately and incurably evil, will lead men to pursue evil to their own death. 5. It... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...flesh.q Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine.* The dog is returned to his vomit, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.8 The law of Moses placed the dog in the class of unclean animals, and stamped... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1827 - 424 pages
...that of them it will be said, according to the proverb, "the dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." The following extracts bring to view themutually interacting intercourse, which subsists between the missionaries... | |
 | Christian life - 1829 - 412 pages
...but it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, the dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." The description is so clear and discriminate, that it is surprising it should be referred to in support... | |
 | 1831 - 982 pages
...it has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again, 1 WITH HER ENDOWMENT OF HOLINESS AND POWER. (From No. xiii. of" Lectures on the Apocalypse " by the Rev.... | |
 | Religion - 1832 - 834 pages
...the allusion, ht 2 Pet. ii. 22, to the true proverb,—" The dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." The first part of this proverb is Solomon's—the latter is evidently of Jewish use and extraction. It... | |
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The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. 
