The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary on the Old Testament: LamentationsFunk & Wagnalls, 1892 |
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... punish . There is no change in the punishment until there is a moral change in the offender . Divine mercy alone can break the entail of suffering , and that can be effected only by satisfying the claims of justice . III . The judgment ...
... punish . There is no change in the punishment until there is a moral change in the offender . Divine mercy alone can break the entail of suffering , and that can be effected only by satisfying the claims of justice . III . The judgment ...
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... punishment of Judah a type of the punishment of all un- faithful nations . I. Their sins are fully known to God . " Let all their wickedness come before Thee . " II . They will be punished according to their actual sins . " Do unto them ...
... punishment of Judah a type of the punishment of all un- faithful nations . I. Their sins are fully known to God . " Let all their wickedness come before Thee . " II . They will be punished according to their actual sins . " Do unto them ...
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CHAPTER II . THE PUNISHMENT OF NATIONAL SIN . In this second elegy the poet has his attention fixed on something ... punish evil - the great day of Jehovah , which Zephaniah predicted .. day of wrath ... a day of wasteness and desolation ...
CHAPTER II . THE PUNISHMENT OF NATIONAL SIN . In this second elegy the poet has his attention fixed on something ... punish evil - the great day of Jehovah , which Zephaniah predicted .. day of wrath ... a day of wasteness and desolation ...
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... punishment grow out of one stem . Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it . - Emerson . National ruin . The whole history of Christianity shows that she is in far greater danger ...
... punishment grow out of one stem . Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it . - Emerson . National ruin . The whole history of Christianity shows that she is in far greater danger ...
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... punished with all the miseries of a siege , ending in national over- throw ( Lev . xxvi . 14-39 ; Deut . xxviii . 15-68 ) . The contemptuous scorn of their enemies emphasised their punishment , and testified to the exactness with which ...
... punished with all the miseries of a siege , ending in national over- throw ( Lev . xxvi . 14-39 ; Deut . xxviii . 15-68 ) . The contemptuous scorn of their enemies emphasised their punishment , and testified to the exactness with which ...
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Page 31 - For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish : to the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life.
Page 68 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 82 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Page 10 - Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me : thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
Page 177 - Although my house be not so with God; yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He make it not to grow.
Page 82 - The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Page 79 - Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning : thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Page 230 - BEHOLD, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; Neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, And your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Page 157 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Page 32 - That I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh...