| John Elliot Palmer - Universalism - 1838 - 252 pages
...dust.'57 He also describes the supposed scenery of that world, and the condition of the dead there : ' Cease, then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort...death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.'08 ' There, says he, ' the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest ;... | |
| John Elliot Palmer - Universalism - 1838 - 252 pages
...dust.'57 ' He also describes the supposed scenery of that world, and the condition of the dead there : ' Cease, then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort...the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itse\f ', and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.'38 ' There,... | |
| Primitive Baptists - 1838 - 304 pages
...shadow of death, or darkness under-ground where the dead lie. In Job x. 20, 21, the patriarch says, " Let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, before...to the land of darkness and the shadow of death." Thus we behold the shadow of death, but not the valley of the shadow of death, inasmuch as Job knew... | |
| Orville Dewey - Sermons, American - 1838 - 312 pages
...their own deaths, a strong proof of its existence. The future, indeed, to mere earthly views, is often "a land of darkness as darkness itself, and of the...without any order, and where the light is as darkness." Truly, death is " without any order." There is in it, such a total disregard to circumstances, as shows... | |
| Thomas Browne Browne - Absentee landlordism - 1838 - 274 pages
...enabled to speak and reveal them. The finest passage on darkness I remember is in the book of Job : — " A land of darkness as darkness itself, and of the...without any order, and where the light is as darkness." Here darkness and light are both dimly personified, but the grandest personification is that of death,... | |
| Theodosia A Wingfield (viscountess Powerscourt.) - 1838 - 346 pages
...seems to express that the gloomy darkness of hell overcasts it. Job, speaking of the grave, calls it "the land of darkness and the shadow of death — a land of darkness as darkness itself, and of the shadows of death without any order, where the light is as darkness." Luke, speaking of spiritual darkness,... | |
| Oliver Sacks, Oliver W. Sacks - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 228 pages
...alienation, my scotoma, these impairments must have been profound — or absolute. CHAPTER THREE LIMBO A land of darkness, as darkness itself — and of...without any order; and where the light is as darkness. —Job 10:22 The scotoma, and its resonances, I had already experienced — frightful, empty images... | |
| Jon Davies - History - 1999 - 276 pages
...him unmolested, in a way preferring the nullity of 'the land of darkness' to the company of his God: Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the...without any order, and where the light is as darkness. In the entire Hebrew Bible only two humans go to heaven: Elijah, arguably while still alive, is taken... | |
| Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 2000 - 514 pages
...I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone,...without any order, and where the light is as darkness. Death ^r> HENRY VAUGHAN A Dialogue Soul 'Tis a sad Land, that in one day Hath dulled thee thus, when... | |
| Lloyd Graham - Religion - 1991 - 496 pages
...priest's idea; Job had a different one. 20. Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, . . . 2 1 . Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death (Chap. 10). 9. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall... | |
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