| James Hall (of Walthamstow.) - 1807 - 358 pages
...towns, and other societies, like the " kingdom of heaven, may be compared to a grain of mustard-seed, which, indeed, is the least of all seeds ; but when...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." About twenty years ago, a worthy and bookish gentleman, of a projecting turn, who was in the habit... | |
| Mary Acworth Orr - 1807 - 746 pages
...towns, and other societies, like the " kingdom of heaven, may be compared to a grain of mustard-seed, which, indeed, is the least of all seeds ; but when...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." About twenty years ago, a worthy and bookish gentleman, of a projecting turn, who was in the habit... | |
| Timothy Kenrick - 1807 - 684 pages
...kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field ; 32. Which indeed is the least of all seeds; but when it...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. By this and the following parable, our Lord represents the very small number of Jews who would believe... | |
| Henry Alford - 1808 - 968 pages
...kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : 82 d they enter in and dwell there : k and the last state...generation. 46 While he yet talked to the people, 33 Another parable spake he unto them ; The kingdom 11 literally, a man (which i») an enemy. T read,... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1809 - 356 pages
...the kingdom of heaven — the kingdom of heaven, says he, is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field: -which indeed is...when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, andbecometh a tree : so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.^ And, with... | |
| William Cuninghame - 1810 - 220 pages
...nations. The Christian, in support of this opinion, may quote the words of Jesus himself — ' The kingdom of Heaven is ' like to a grain of mustard seed, which...the air come and ' lodge in the branches thereof.' (Matt. xiii. 31, 32.) — ' So is the kingdom of God, as if a man ' should cast seed into the ground,... | |
| William Newcome - 1810 - 548 pages
...ornamental addition, like what sometimes occurs in the best poetical descriptions. " y The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." It has been observed with -respect to the parable of the good Samaritan, that there is great propriety... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 438 pages
...put he forth unto them, saying, Tiie kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took, and sowed in. his field ; Which indeed is...branches thereof. Another parable spake he unto them, The kingdom «f heaven is like unto kaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till... | |
| William Newcome - 1810 - 542 pages
...ornamental addition, like what sometimes occurs in the best poetical descriptions. " y The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which...the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree : so tliat the birds cf the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." It has been observed with respect... | |
| James Macknight - 1810 - 452 pages
...or gospel dispensation, and its beneficial influence on the happiness of mankind, Matt. xiii. 32. " Which "indeed is the least of all seeds, but when...of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." Of the allegorical dream formed on an arbitrary symbol, we have an example in the great and terrible... | |
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