| Ezekiel Blomfield - Bible - 1809 - 690 pages
...answerable to the ruggedness of the country. [Mat. iii. 4.^ And the vaine John had his raiment of camels' hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins ; and his meat was locusts and nsild honey. These locusts were a species of large insects, such as frequently destroy the crops in... | |
| Bible - 1809 - 658 pages
...in the desert, ' Prepare ye the way of 4 the Lord, make his paths straight.' " Now this John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins : and his foqd was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then went out unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and 6 all the country... | |
| Religion - 1811 - 708 pages
...although it existed only in pretence. He was no parasite, clothed in soft raiment. He had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins ; and his meat was locust and wild honey*. He bore in his personal appearance, the character of that ministry of penitence,... | |
| Religion - 1811 - 706 pages
...although it existed only in pretence. He was no parasite, clothed in soft raiment. He had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins ; and his meat was locust and wild honey*. He bore in his personal appearance, the character of that ministry of penitence,... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1813 - 268 pages
...Critieal Remarks, vol. 1. pp. 131—311. 10 Matt. iii. 4. "The same John had his raiment of camels hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his meat was locusts. and wild honey." Camels are not only used in the east, for earrying burderçs through the deserts, but their milk and... | |
| Elihu Thayer - Congregational churches - 1813 - 390 pages
...Evangelist tells us, he was clothed with a coat of camel's hair, which was a coarse sort of manufacture, " and a leathern girdle about his loins ; and his meat was locusts and wild honey." At first multitudes flocked after him, but when he, in the plainest manner called on his hearers to... | |
| Alden Bradford - Bible - 1813 - 544 pages
...Prepare ye the way of the Lord, 4 make his paths straight." And the same John had his raiment of camels' hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins : and his meat was locusts 5 and wild honey. * Then went out to him the people of Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the 6 country... | |
| Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 4 And the same John had his raiment of camels hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins ; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. S Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 And were... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 714 pages
...somewhat austere in his character, but he likewise ate animal food, and wore animal clothing. " He had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about...loins : and his meat was locusts and wild honey." Matt. iii. 4>. Nor has Philost nit us told any such wonderful works of Apollonius, as should make out... | |
| George Pretyman - Apologetics - 1815 - 578 pages
...Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. " And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about...his loins, and his meat was locusts and wild honey (k)" He taught that the kingdom of heaven was at hand;, admonished his countrymen of the danger of... | |
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