| Daniel Dewar - 1826 - Liczba stron: 558
...worshippers of Baal, — irony founded on the notions which the worshippers entertained of their deity. " Cry aloud : for he is a God ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or per ad venture he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves... | |
| Daniel Dewar - 1826 - Liczba stron: 528
...worshippers of Baal, — irony founded on the notions which the worshippers entertained of their deity. " Cry aloud: for he is a God ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves... | |
| Andrew Thomson (of Bristol) - 1826 - Liczba stron: 394
...that answered. And they leaped upon the altar." Elijah therefore mocked them and said, " Cry alond, for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried alond, and cat themselves... | |
| 1826 - Liczba stron: 190
...importunate addresses of his besotted priests, when Elijah mocked them and said, "cryaloud, " for Baal is a God ; either he is talking, or he "is pursuing, or he is in a journey, orperadven" ture he sleepeth, and must be awaked."—Nothing is more galling to people,... | |
| John Callaway - 1827 - Liczba stron: 110
...rank, chief sultana, or queen downger. 1 Kings, xviii. 27. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud ; for he is a god...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. Homer's deities are represented travelling, disputing, fighting, feasting, and sleeping. According... | |
| 1836 - Liczba stron: 698
...in the bible. Elijah was bitterly sarcastic when he said to the prophets of Baal, " Cry aloud ; lor he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing,...journey ; or, peradventure, he sleepeth, and must be awaked." The inspired preacher employs irony on a most solemn subject, when he exhorts the young man... | |
| Joseph Hervey Hull - 1828 - Liczba stron: 84
...of all kinds. We have a remarkable example of irony in the sacred "writings. When the prophet Elijah challenged the priests of Baal to prove the truth...journey ; or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." Hyperbole, gives us the highest idea of an object, and magnifies it beyond its natural dimensions... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1828 - Liczba stron: 268
...it. The prophet Elijah, when he challenged the priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity, " mocked them, and said, Cry aloud ; for he is a god...either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepclh, and must be awaked." excellent interpreter of the law !... | |
| Mark Beaufoy (of the Coldstream guards.) - 1828 - Liczba stron: 354
...seen reeling homewards with their weekly supply of rockets and powder, for various sacred and ex* " Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awakened." 1 Kings, xviii. 27. liilarating occasions; and those articles are purchased in preference... | |
| 1828 - Liczba stron: 1042
...upon the altar which was made. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Crv fth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, wh in a journey, or peradventure ne sleepeth, ana must be awaked. 28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves... | |
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