| 422 pages
...into the hand of a woman." Scripture readers see the hand of God everywhere — go so far as to say "Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it?" That distinction, important in its place, which we make so fluently between the ruling and the overruling,... | |
| Joseph Parker - Apostles - 1883 - 382 pages
...Thou art expressing thyself to our vision and feeling and thought, in every occurrence of the time. Shall there be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it — shall the devil have larger scope without the Lord having given it to him — doth hell enlarge... | |
| F. L. Spangler - Floods - 1884 - 148 pages
...preached by Rev. SE Herring, in St. Luke's Lutheran church, this morning, the text found in Amos in, 6 : " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it?" "The Bible," says the speaker, "teaches, and good men believe, that God not only supports and sustains... | |
| William Edward Addis, Thomas Arnold - Theology - 1884 - 916 pages
...He has made creatures subject to corruption. " The Lord killeth and maketh alive " (1 Reg. ii. 6). " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? " (Amos iii. 0). It also in numberless places speaks of God us inflicting punishment. He "renders... | |
| William Edward Addis - 1884 - 952 pages
...He has made creatures subject to corruption. " The Lord killeth and maketh alive " (1 Reg. ii. 6). " Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? " (Amos iii. 6). It also in numberless places speaks of God as inflicting punishment. He "renders... | |
| Henry Maudsley - 1884 - 366 pages
...to be inscrutable — is a satisfactory theory to the theologian, who acknowledges that there cannot be 'evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it, 'and a theory which has been the most powerful of all agencies in promoting the social evolution of... | |
| Joseph Parker - Bible - 1887 - 398 pages
...Thou art expressing thyself to our vision and feeling and thought, in every occurrence of the time. Shall there be evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it — shall the devil have larger scope without the Lord having given it to him — doth hell enlarge... | |
| Alexander Frederick William Papillon - London (England) - 1887 - 486 pages
...evil and good ? ' that is, both evil (in a way of punishment) and good proceed from God. Amos iii., 6, 'Shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it?' Whatever God's providences and dispensations are towards us, we ought to be diligent in observing them,... | |
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