Exegetical Essays on Several Words Relating to Future Punishment /by Moses Stuart

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Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1867 - Future punishment - 208 pages
 

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Page 161 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Page 159 - While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 175 - Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae ; Pallentesque habitant Morbi, tristisque Senectus, Et Metus, et malesuada Fames, ac turpis Egestas ; Terribiles visu formae ; Letumque, Labosque ; Tum consanguiueua Leti Sopor ; et mala mentis Gaudia ; mortiferumque adverso in limine Bellum, Ferreique Eumenidum thalami, et Discordia demens, Vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis.
Page 159 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Page 192 - Perpetual fires were kept up in order to consume the offal which was deposited there. And as the same offal would breed worms (for so all putrifying meat of course does), hence came the expression, ' Where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 123 - For the grave cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee : they that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day : the father to the children shall make known Thy truth.
Page 118 - How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? 47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? 48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?
Page 117 - O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul ; and have not set thee before them.
Page 28 - Jin indefmite period of time ; time without limitation ; ever, forever, time without end, eternity ; all in relation to the future. As to the various instances now to be cited, the reader will see, that some one or other of these shades of meaning applies to all. If he be accustomed to philological and exegetical studies, he will also perceive, that so far as the simple idea of the word...
Page 160 - Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them ; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning ; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

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