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" A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. "
The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany - Page 141
1862
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A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament: With Devotional ..., Volume 5

Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 pages
...doun contented with the event i 19 this may be very useful still, if not superstitiausly performed. A. brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city : and [their] contentions [are] like the bars of a castle : the nearness of the relation heightens...
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Churchman's Remembrancer: Being a Collection of Scarce and ..., Volume 2

1807 - 474 pages
...much as divisions do, so, when once they are made, there is nothing more hard to be composed again. A Brother offended, is harder to be won, than a strong City; and their, contentions are like the barrs of a Castle*. For as no bond is so strong, as that of Religion...
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The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 6

William Oldys, John Malham - 1810 - 574 pages
...world standeth, lest I make my brother ts offend.' And the wise-man seems to give the reason, saying, A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and their contentions like the bars of a castle. Yet, horresco referens, these presbyterians, like...
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The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 6

William Oldys, John Malham - 1810 - 600 pages
...world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.' And the wise-man seems to give the reason, saying, A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and their contentions like the bars of a castle. Yet, htirresco referent, these presbyterians, like...
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The works of ... William Huntington ... to the close of the year MDCCCVI.

William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pages
...soul, Isaiah lix. 2 ; a contention with him seems to fasten the bar of infidelity; as it is written, " A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle," Prov. xviii. 19. If a contention with Christ...
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Lectures on Scripture Facts

William Bengo Collyer - 1813 - 448 pages
...extent of the mischief which his partiality had effected; and as little did he appear to understand that "a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city!" Behold, this lad in whom all his father's affections centre, setting out from the vale of Hebron! Already...
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Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Scripture illustrated, by means ...

Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 pages
...this there may be something more in the emphasis of the following passage than has been remarked. " A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle," not merely hard to be removed on account of their...
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Posthumous letters [ed. by E. Sanderson].

William Huntington - 1815 - 750 pages
...fool enter into contention, and God understands it as a voice from the back, calling for strokes. " A Brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and a contention with him is like the bars of a castle ; " which hardens^the heart, and strengthens...
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The New evangelical magazine and theological review, Volume 10

1824 - 452 pages
...engage us heartily to exercise this virtue, and are too frequently reminded of the wise man's saying, " a brother offended, is harder to be won than a strong city." The causes of this are, the natural backwardness of the offender to make a candid and ingenuous confession...
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Ezra to Malachi

1815 - 614 pages
...cometh and searcheth him. 18 The lot cause th contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty. 19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city : and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. 20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the...
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