...Rebekah were fair women. The Blessed Virgin Mary was full of grace. David, the great type of Christ, was " ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to." Why should not the Seed, and great Antitype, Himself be possessed of good form and features ? True,...

...was after the similitude of David, when Jesse presented him to the great prophet of Israel; viz., " Now, he was ruddy, and, withal, of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to." His deportment in early manhood was indicative of that firmness and resolution which, in later years,...

...said, There is still the youngest, and he is keeping the sheep.' Samuel said, ' Send and fetch him.' And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, ' Arise, anoint him : for this...

...wasting, wearing process of disease — for instance, what a contrast is the picture we have of him when he was " ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to," and the one he paints of himself in after-years, when he says, " I may tell all my bones, they look and stare...

...these circumstances he now appeared in the pulpit. His appearance at once took the eye of all, for ' he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to ; ' grave, majestic, and comely. He preached, and dissension was at an end in the congregation. Old...

...Lord's Anointed — those sunny days of boyhood, unknown to care, and almost unstained by sin; when he was " ruddy and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to." I Samuel xvi. 12. I incline to regard this as the date of its composition; the keen eye of criticism...

...cultivation, aud experience of life. He was still, like the minstrel- warriour of Bethlehem Judah, "ruddy and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to." Strange as it may seem, notwithstanding his reserve and hashfulness (for though the word hashfulness...

...wasting, wearing process of disease — for instance, what a contrast is the picture we have of him when he was " ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to," and the one he paints of himself in after years, when he says, " I may tell all my bones, they look and stare...

...and fetch him : for we will not sit down till he come hither." Q. What was David's appearance ? A. "He was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to." Q. When he arrived, what did the Lord say ? A. " Arise, anoint him : for this is he." Q. Did Samuel...

...rustic enchantment. But this was not to be. This " youngest son of Jesse," who " kept the sheep," and " was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to " was chosen of God to a very different sphere of life. The Lord said to Samuel, "Arise, anoint him...