This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... fast just the same. 4. To be heard on high.--If ye wish your voice and your prayer to be heard by God in heaven, this is not the sort of fast to induce him to listen. 9. The putting forth of the finger.--Mockery and in science towards the pious and persisting part of the nation. 13. The sabbath.--For the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... fast just the same. 4. To be heard on high.--If ye wish your voice and your prayer to be heard by God in heaven, this is not the sort of fast to induce him to listen. 9. The putting forth of the finger.--Mockery and in science towards the pious and persisting part of the nation. 13. The sabbath.--For the special importance of the Sabbath during the captivity in Babylon see c. 58, v. 2, and the note there. 14. The high places of the earth.--In early times and in the warfare of early times the high and rocky situations were also the strong and defensible situations, and therefore he who occupied them was formidable and powerful. CHAPTER 59. Israel's sins are what make Israel's misery and defer his salvation. But God, because Israel is his chosen instrument, will himself interpose to break up the unrighteous kingdoms of the world and to restore Israel. 3. Your hands are defiled.--This and what follows is a picture of the sins of the unfaithful part of the Jewish nation during the captivity in Babylon, and in spite of the lessons taught by that captivity. 5. They hatch cockatrice' eggs.--They hatch mischief. Cockatrice is compounded of the words cock and adder, and is a fabled venomous serpent bred from an egg. Serpents do not lay. eggs, but bring forth their young alive. ib. Weave the spider's web.--They spin vain, foolish schemes, which can only come to nought. 7. Their feet run to evil.--Quoted in the Epistle to the Romans (iii. 15), to prove the guiltiness before God of the Jews under their law. 9. Therefore is judgment gone from us.--Here the person changes, and the Prophet speaks as himself one of the sinful people, and offers up in his own name and theirs a sort of confession of sins. 9. We wait for light, &c.--See the preceding chapter, v....
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Very good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 196. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Slightly bumped at corners, endpapers very faintly browned, otherwise near fine.
