Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul. Bentley's miscellany - Page 2811853Full view - About this book
| Charles Lucas - 1810 - 372 pages
...fields of Gomorrah : their grapes are grapes of gall, their '* clusters are bitter." Deut. xxxii. 32. " Of whose wickedness, even to this day, the waste land...to ripeness : and a standing Pillar of Salt is " a. memorial of an unbelieving soul." Book of Wisdom, *. 7. It is an anticlimax to add, from the end of... | |
| 1842 - 612 pages
...century before Christ. Speaking of the destruction of the Cities of the Plain, the writer says : " Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land...pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul." Wind. x. 7. This shows clearly enough the opinion prevailing among the Jews in the time of the writer... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 606 pages
...perished, WISDOM deli*' vered the righteous man, who fled from the fire '•' which fell upon the cities, of whose wickedness, " even to this day, the waste...testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come " to ripeness0." " As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be also '* in the days of the Son of man f... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...GEN. xix. 26: But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. WISD. x. 7 : A standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul. b EST. iv. 14: For if thou altogether boldest thy peace at lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life... | |
| George Bush - Bible - 1831 - 484 pages
...she (Wisdom) delivered the righteous men who fled from the fire which fell down upon the five cities. Of whose wickedness, even to this day, the waste land that smoketh is a testimony ; and plants bearing fruits that never come to ripeness ; and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving... | |
| Peter Graham (topographical writer.) - 1836 - 292 pages
...water only.) " The land of Sodom, waste and smoking," says the author of the Book of Wisdom, " with plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness ; and a standing pillar of salt is a monument (figurative representation) of an unbelieving soul." The Dead Sea is about seventy miles in length,... | |
| Geology - 1842 - 450 pages
...contained in the fruit, which is like a pomegranate, but has no pulp. * Book of Wisdom, chap. x. verse 7. " Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land...pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul." ' t See also Wisdom, x, 7. Chateaubriand follows, with his discovery of what he concludes to be the... | |
| Geology - 1842 - 446 pages
...Book of Wisdom, chap. x. verse ?• " Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that Bmokcth is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never...pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving souL" t See al«o Wisdom, x. 7Chateaubriand follows, with his discovery of what he concludes to be the long-sought... | |
| Science - 1842 - 446 pages
...Book of Wisdom, chap. x. verse 7- " Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smokcth is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never...pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul." t See also Wisdom, x. 7. Chateaubriand follows, with his discovery of what he concludes to be the long-sought... | |
| American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...and tradition. The author of the Wisdom of Solomon, speaking of the cities of the plain, says — " Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruits that never come to ripeness ; and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving... | |
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