 | Henry Phillips - 1822 - 446 pages
...than three thousand three hundred years ago. When Moses called down the plague of hail upon Egypt, " the wheat and the rye were not smitten; for they were not grown up."* Both the winter and the spring varieties have been for many ages cultivated in this country; and in... | |
 | 1823 - 622 pages
...of hail, given in Exod. ix. 31, the sacred historian informs us, that " the flax and the barley were smitten ; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax...rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up." This enables us to determine in what part of the year the ten plagues came on the Egyptians. The first... | |
 | William Brown - 1823 - 536 pages
...March, since the Passover, was about the 4th of April, the flax and the barley were smitten, because the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled; but the wheat and rye were not smitten, because they were not grown up : that is, they were not so far advanced as that... | |
 | David Jennings - 1823 - 654 pages
...Egypt particularly, " the barley, it is said, was smitten with the hail, for it was in the ear, whereas the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up," Exod. ix, 81, 32. It is inquired, why leaven was used in the bread offered at pentecost ; whereas it... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field ; and the flax and the barley were smitten ; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled."1 This, it must be admitted, was an extraordinary visitation ; yet it differs but little from... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pages
...LORD'S. 30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that yo will not yet fear the LORD God. 31 And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. 32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten : for they were f not grown up. Jf?*r ££. 33 And Moses... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1828 - 464 pages
...barley was in ear, and the flax was boiled (ie risen in a round stalk — far advanced towards maturity) but the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up," Exod.ix.31,32. The corn, being carried away in waggons or carts, was either laid up in stacks (Exod.... | |
 | John James Blunt - 1830 - 232 pages
...of the hail draws from the historian who records it the remark, that " the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was in the ear and the flax...rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up," (or rather perhaps, were not out of sheath.*) Now this is precisely such a degree of forwardness as... | |
 | John James Blunt - 1830 - 228 pages
...of the hail draws from the historian who records it the remark, that " the flax and the barky were smitten, for the barley was in the ear and the flax...rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up," (or rather perhaps, were not out of sheath.*) Now this is precisely such a degree of forwardness as... | |
 | 1830 - 300 pages
...was shot up, and the Flax was boulled." Coverdale's Bible, 1535 ; and the Bishop's Bible, 1568. — " The Flax and the Barley was smitten; for the Barley was in the ear, and the Flax was boiled." King James's Bible, 1611. — These terms may be well illustrated by a passage from a Botanical work... | |
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And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up. 
