| Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1922 - 258 pages
...holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; . . . you are ten thousand times so abominable in his eyes,...the most hateful and venomous serpent is in ours." Any one who understands human nature could have told him that, after such a black exaggeration of human... | |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1922 - 268 pages
...holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; . . . you are ten thousand times so abominable in his eyes,...the most hateful and venomous serpent is in ours." Any one who understands human nature could have told him that, after such a black exaggeration of human... | |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1922 - 264 pages
...holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; . . . you are ten thousand times / so abominable in his eyes, as the most hate/ ful and venomous serpent is in ours." Any / one who understands human nature could have told... | |
| Julius H. Rubin - 1994 - 321 pages
...over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some other loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards...worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire. . . . And there is no other reason to be given why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in... | |
| William Pratt - 1996 - 364 pages
...you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked; His wrath towards...worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire." In the fourth stanza of his poem, Lowell goes on to describe the spider's death by fire as if it were... | |
| Edward J. Ingebretsen - 1996 - 284 pages
...you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire" ( Works, p. 458). Yet Edwards's use of creepy-crawly insects to make theological points did not represent... | |
| Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1146 pages
...you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards...times so abominable in his eyes as the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his... | |
| Kathy Sammis - 1997 - 128 pages
...spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath toward you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. . . . O sinner! consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and... | |
| J. Baird Callicott, Michael P. Nelson - 1998 - 716 pages
...you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards...have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abom1nable 1n h1s eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him... | |
| Octavia E. Butler - 1998 - 374 pages
...you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards...worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire." You're worthless. God hates you. All you deserve is pain and death. What a believable theology that... | |
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