 | 1858 - 652 pages
...sepulchral light on the dead bushes and fragments of rock." Josephus and others speak of " fruits which have a colour as if they were fit to be eaten -but if you pluck them they dissolve into smoke and ashes." These famous " apples of Sodom" are found to be the osher\i{ the... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1869 - 612 pages
...cities, although it be now all burnt up. It is related how, for the impiety of its inhabitants, it was burnt by lightning ; in consequence of which there...fire ; and the traces [or shadows] of the five cities arc still to be seen, as well as the . ashes growing in their fruits, which fruits have a color as... | |
 | William McClure Thomson - 1880 - 796 pages
...say so.1 Josephus, also, says that " there are still the remainders of that divine fire, and traces of the five cities are still to be seen, as well as...ashes growing in their fruits. Which fruits have a color as if they were fit to be eaten, but if you pluck them with your hands, they dissolve into smoke... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1889 - 584 pages
...cities, although it be now all burnt up. It is related how, for the impiety of its inhabitants, it was burnt by lightning ; in consequence of which there...ashes growing in their fruits, which fruits have a color as if they were fit to be eaten ; but if you pluck them with your hands, they dissolve into smoke... | |
 | John Bonus - 1914 - 112 pages
...land, both for the fruits it bore and the riches of its cities, although it be now all burnt up ... there are still the remainders of that divine fire, and the traces of the five cities are still to be seen, as well as the ashes growing in their fruits, which fruits... | |
 | William Oscar Emil Oesterley - 1917 - 108 pages
...cities, although now it is all burnt up. It is related how, for the impiety of its inhabitants, it was burnt by lightning ; in consequence of which there...the remainders of that divine fire, and the traces of the five cities are still to be seen, as well as the ashes growing in their fruits, which fruits... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 678 pages
...every day; and as the rays of the sun fall differently upon it, the light is variously reflected . . . and the traces (or shadows) of the five cities are still to be seen. Poe may also have used encyclopedias and Biblical commentaries on Genesis 19, the story of Lot. The... | |
 | Flavius Josephus, William Whiston, David Samuel Margoliouth - 2004 - 500 pages
...cities, although it be now all burnt up. It is related how, for the impiety of its inhabitants, it was burnt by lightning; in consequence of which there...ashes growing in their fruits; which fruits have a color as if they were fit to be eaten, but if you pluck them with your hands, they dissolve into smoke... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2004 - 276 pages
...historian Josephus (AD 37—100), who claimed that remnants of the trees of Sodom (north of the Dead Sea) "are still to be seen, as well as the ashes growing in their fruits, which fruits have a color as if they were fit to be eaten; but if you pluck them with your hands, they dissolve into smoke... | |
 | James Hastings - 2004 - 452 pages
...states that the country of Sodom bordered upon the Lake Asphaltitis (Salt Sea), and that the cities were burnt by lightning, in consequence of which there are still the remainders of that divine fire, and that the traces of the five cities are still to be seen (BJ IV. viii. 4 ; v. ziii. 6 ; Tac. Hist. T.... | |
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It was of old a most happy land, both for the fruits it bore and the riches of its cities, although it be now all burnt up. It is related how, for the impiety of its inhabitants, it was burnt by lightning; in consequence of which there are still the remainders... 
