 | William Russell - Europe - 1801 - 510 pages
...the Assyrian empire are finely described by the prophet Ezekiel, under the similitude of a tree. " Behold, the " Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a PART I. their dominion from the borders of Egypt, i the frontiers of India. In the prosecution of these... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...his multitude ; Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? thou thinkest no prince equal to 3 thyself, but Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs ; it overtopped the... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and he? daughters shall go into captivity. XXXI. 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. Behold, the king... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1857 - 1220 pages
...Assyria being also a representative symbol of rationality. Of the former state it is written — " Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 606 pages
...empire, under the splendid and majestic imagery afforded by vegetation in its most flourishing state : " The Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair "-branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an " high stature, and his top was among the thick " boughs. The waters made... | |
 | Arminianism - 1850 - 704 pages
...appeared to bear witness, in the Through the portals which they guarded, words of the prophet, that one* " the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs bis height was exalted... | |
 | Joseph Wilson (minister of Laxton.) - Bible - 1824 - 368 pages
...power would vanish away. Under the same emblem Ezekiel ( xxxi. 3 — 6 ) describes the Assyrian empire. "Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadow ing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. — His height... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...water, where the greatness and glory of Assyria is likened unto a Cedar-tree. It is thus described : " Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. " Therefore his... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? 3 ll not profit shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; aud his tup was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? *m*»ft"rqr ^ ^ Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon * with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. t or, lumruh- 4... | |
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Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. 
