 | 1804 - 498 pages
...propriety, be applied to any of the irrational animals. The Psalmist, it is true, compares the sun to a " Bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race." — But this is, evidently, to be taken in a figurative sense ; and so are all personal properties... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 558 pages
...world, they are not persons. Thus, when the sun is described as though it were a person, and is compared to a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race, Psal. xix. 5. the words are never understood in any other but a metaphorical sense ; so Behemoth... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 pages
...world, they are not persons. Thus, when the sun is described as though it were a person, and is compared to a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race, Psal. xix. 5. the words are never understood in any other but a metaphorical sense ; so Behemoth... | |
 | 1804 - 502 pages
...any of the irrational animals. The Psalmist, it is true, compares the sun to a " Bridegroom corning out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race." — But this is, evidently, to be taken in a figurative sense ; and so are all personal properties... | |
 | 1886 - 786 pages
...from unnumbered points in Christian lands. Will not the sun in his course through the heavens, " as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race," look down with special gladness upon the matins, the midday and the later petitions as they... | |
 | 1823 - 418 pages
...the light of the sun is his strength. It is this appearance that led the Psalmist to compare the sun to a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and " rejoicing as a strong man to run his race." It is very remarkable that the import of the following passage should have been overlooked... | |
 | 1823 - 418 pages
...the light of the sun is his strength. It is this appearance that led the Psalmist to compare the sun to a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and " rejoicing as a strong man to run his race." It is very remarkable that the import of the following passage should have been overlooked... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 512 pages
...God, he launched out into his course with the life and vigor of the sun, which he describes, ' like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run his race :' when his subject naturally changed on his hand, and prayer took place of praise, his mind... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 632 pages
...night unto night sheweth knowledge. — In them hath he placed a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run his race," &c. 3. In like manner, there are many scriptures that speak of God's PRAISE, in many of... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 512 pages
...God, he launched out into his course with the life and vigor of the sun, which he describes, ' like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run his race :' when his subject naturally changed on his hand, and prayer took place of praise, his mind... | |
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Psalmist speaks of a tabernacle in the heavens set for the sun, whom he compares to "a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race. 
