The Journal of Sacred LiteratureC. Cox, 1848 - Bible |
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... diction and mode of statement are by no means the same throughout , but rather very manifold and variable . We sometimes find in the prophet a purely didactic diction , in calm development as in the older prophets . This form prevails ...
... diction and mode of statement are by no means the same throughout , but rather very manifold and variable . We sometimes find in the prophet a purely didactic diction , in calm development as in the older prophets . This form prevails ...
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... diction of Ezekiel is lively , powerful , original , sprung from a period in which prophecy and the Hebrew language had still an independent life . Or can we with such accuracy lay down the characteristic difference between the language ...
... diction of Ezekiel is lively , powerful , original , sprung from a period in which prophecy and the Hebrew language had still an independent life . Or can we with such accuracy lay down the characteristic difference between the language ...
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... diction , thus appear in a firm undivided unity , that beautiful union of sensuous and spiritual - that creative embodi- ment of the thought - is produced , which properly constitutes poetry . Here is still the perfect immediateness of ...
... diction , thus appear in a firm undivided unity , that beautiful union of sensuous and spiritual - that creative embodi- ment of the thought - is produced , which properly constitutes poetry . Here is still the perfect immediateness of ...
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... diction in Ps . xxxii . and lxii . , for instance , suddenly and in- voluntarily passes over , precisely in the sublimest passages , to sententious general truths , and to an admonition to all men to submit themselves to such truths ...
... diction in Ps . xxxii . and lxii . , for instance , suddenly and in- voluntarily passes over , precisely in the sublimest passages , to sententious general truths , and to an admonition to all men to submit themselves to such truths ...
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... diction and art , nay , the entire firm basis of peculiar form , which of itself bears witness to long practice , and serves posterity as a levelled road . But we unquestionably possess some remains of contemporaneous composition , both ...
... diction and art , nay , the entire firm basis of peculiar form , which of itself bears witness to long practice , and serves posterity as a levelled road . But we unquestionably possess some remains of contemporaneous composition , both ...
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Page 246 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss...
Page 121 - And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Page 248 - So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate ; As if predestination over-ruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge : they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I : if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all, Both what they judge and what they choose...
Page 384 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
Page 135 - And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, "Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue. "And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them, and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes.
Page 252 - Beyond compare the Son of God was seen Most glorious : in him all his Father shone Substantially expressed ; and in his face Divine compassion visibly appeared, Love without end, and without measure grace...
Page 243 - O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
Page 251 - Hear, all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers ; Hear my decree, which unrevoked shall stand. This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son, and on this holy hill Him have anointed, whom ye now behold At my right hand; your head I him appoint; And by myself have sworn, to him shall bow All knees in heaven, and shall confess him Lord...
Page 180 - And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
Page 248 - To whom thus Adam fervently replied : — "O Woman, best are all things as the will Of God ordained them; his creating hand Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created — much less Man, Or aught that might his happy state secure, Secure from outward force. Within himself The danger lies, yet lies within his power; Against his will he can receive no harm.