 | Joseph Wolff - 1824 - 352 pages
...and said to him, I perceive that the Jews of this place marry very early. Rabbi Mendel. " As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are children of the youth," Psalm cxxvii. 4. /. Your observation is very good. 1 have heard that you have been a disciple of Rabbi... | |
 | Joseph Wolff - 1824 - 374 pages
...and said (o him, I perceive that the Jews of this place marry very early. Rabbi Mendel. " As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are children of the youth," Psalm cxxvii. 4. /. Your observation is very good. I have heard that you have been a disciple of Rabbi... | |
 | Gerhard Friedrich A. Strauss - 1824 - 416 pages
...The fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows in the hapd of a mighty man, So are the children of youth : Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them I They shall not be ashamed When they speak with their enemies in the gate. Psal. cxxvii. As he turned... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1825 - 714 pages
...Fertility is not from the means, but from the author : it was for Solomon that David sung, of old, " Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward !" How oft doth God deny this heritage of heirs, where he gives the largest heritage of lands, and... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 554 pages
...? If natural births have been always acknowledged to belong to God's prerogative, (Psal. cxxvii. 3. Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward ; and so Jacob answered wisely to his wife's foolish passion, Gen. xxx. 2, Am I in God's stead ?) how... | |
 | Robert Leighton, John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 556 pages
...? If natural births have been always acknowledged to belong to God's prerogative, (Psal. cxxvii. 3. Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward ; and so Jacob answered wisely to his wife's foolish passion, Gen. xxx. 2, Am I in God's stead ?) how... | |
 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1825 - 480 pages
...rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows : for so he giveth his beloved sleep. 3. Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth. 5. Happy is the man that... | |
 | 724 pages
...hereby for fresh services. He who has bestowed on him these precious gifts, wishes him to enjoy them. Children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward; he has made them lovely and interesting, that he may be delighted with and interested in them. He who... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows : fir so he giveth his beloved sleep. 3 5 it hit reward. 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5 Happy is... | |
 | 1852 - 1174 pages
...years after she had gone to her rest ! What encouragement for faith and prayer ! The Psalmist says, " Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the...Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them " (Ps. cxxvii. 3 — 5). This may, primarily, apply to Zion, or the spiritual Jerusalem (Gal. iv. 26),... | |
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Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. 
