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" My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should... "
Elements of criticism [by H. Home]. - Page 249
by Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 515 pages
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Scripture Natural History: Containing a Descriptive Account of the ...

William Carpenter - 1833 - 420 pages
...to which we just now referred, there is mention made of a wild grape, which requires notice : ' And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes,' Isa. v. 2. Jeremiah uses the same image, and applies it to the same purpose, in an elegant paraphrase...
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Last Thoughts on Important Subjects: In Three Parts . I. Man's Liability to ...

Noah Worcester - 1833 - 344 pages
...posterity of Jacob. " O house of Israel, is not my way equal? Are not your ways unequal?" Ezek. xviii. 25. "And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge I pray you between me and my vineyard; what could have been done more for my vineyard that I have not done in...
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Selections from the Old Testament: Or, the Religion, Morality and Poetry of ...

Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: ami In-looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard....
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 5; Volume 16

1834 - 544 pages
...against my soul,' Psa. cix, 6-20. But I proceed to notice another portion of Scripture under this kead. 'And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. What could have been done More to my vineyard, that I have not done in...
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The Christian Advocate, Volume 12

1834 - 546 pages
...•with which he appealed to his ancient Church? "O inhabitants of America, judge I pray you between me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my viueyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes," (even...
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A practical exposition of the Gospel according to st. John, in the form of lects

John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1835 - 558 pages
...calls upon the inhabitants of the whole earth to witness his dealings with his people: (Is. v. 3 :) " And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,...vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard ; See Luke xix. 21. that I have not done in it ? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth...
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The Sabbath-day Book for Boys and Girls

1835 - 234 pages
...with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it...grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Jiidiili. judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard,...
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Sermons, partly critical and explanatory

James Parsons - 1835 - 408 pages
...and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vines, and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Wherefore, when I looked...
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Thirty Years' Correspondence Between John Jebb -- and Alexander Knox--, Volume 1

John Jebb - 1835 - 812 pages
...verb, nt}^, is frequently applied to trees, when no metaphor is intended. Thus, Isaiah, v. 4., ' I looked, that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.' And, again, Isaiah, xxxvii. 31., ' And it shall bear fruit upward.' In the New Testament, a similar phrase...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 15

1835 - 444 pages
...at all. These are the wild grapes to which the prophet compares the inhabitants of Jerusalem. " And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." One species of vine is not less distinguished by the luxuriance of ils growth than by the richness...
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