 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.  Ezra to Malachi - Page 131815Full view - About this book
 | Robert Macoy - 1855 - 448 pages
...tradition, that the divinity was clothed in a rainbow; for thus he is represented by Ezekiel the prophet: "As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud...appearance of the likeness of the Glory of the Lord." St. John saw in a vision the throne of God encompassed by a rainbow. A rainbow was in fact the usual... | |
 | Robert Macoy - 1855 - 460 pages
...tradition, that the Divinity was clothed in a Rainbow. For thus is he represented by Ezekiel the prophet : " As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud...the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord."38 St. John saw in a vision the throne of God, encompassed by a rainbow.48 A Rainbow was, in... | |
 | John Kitto - 1856 - 750 pages
...from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from trie appearance of his loins even downward, I 1 oOr.o/K/V. Verse 1. ' Tlte river of Clielar.' — This is doubtless the river that still bears the... | |
 | Theodore Dehon - 1856 - 536 pages
...high abode, who beheld with rapture the same glorious emblem about his throne, and thus depicts it: " As the appearance of the bow that is in . the cloud...appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord." From the contemplation of this glorious object, which John beheld in the celestial world, we may learn... | |
 | William Jay - 1856 - 688 pages
...tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." JULY 20.— EVENTtsG. "As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud...about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the gloiy of the Lord." EZEK. i. 28. THERE is always ground for the Prophet's complaint ; " Seeing many... | |
 | Thomas Legh Claughton (bp. of St. Albans.) - 1857 - 284 pages
...as to Noah. Gen. ix. 16, 17. It is also an emblem of the glory of the Lord, as seen by Ezekiel (i. 28) : " As the appearance of the bow that is in the...appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord." T. What do the thunderings, and lightnings, and voices, remind us of ? S, The fearful presence of God... | |
 | George Oliver - 1857 - 358 pages
...tradition, that the Divinity was clothed in a Rainbow. For thus is he represented by Ezekiel the prophet. " As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud...the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord."53 St. John saw in a vision the throne of God encompassed by a rainbow.54 A Rainbow was, in fact,... | |
 | Jonathan Bayley (Rev. DD.) - 1858 - 660 pages
...heaven. Ezekiel saw a wonderful appearance in the land of the hlessed, which he thus describes : " As the appearance of the BOW THAT IS IN THE CLOUD...fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake."—Ezek. i. 28. John records a similar sight: " And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1858 - 662 pages
...But in particular, the word is very often thus used, when applied to God and Christ As in Ezek. i. 28, " As the appearance of the bow that is in the...appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord." And chap. x. 4, " Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the... | |
 | Thomas Winthrop Coit - 1859 - 362 pages
...appearance of the bow," says the prophet Ezekiel, disclosing to us a glimpse of the world above—" As the appearance of the bow, that is in the cloud...likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it," adds he, "I fell upon my face."./' When a door in heaven, as he expresses it, was opened for St. John,... | |
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