 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite...  Applied Philosophy - Page 142by Climenson Yelverton Charles Dawbarn - 1923 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...net ? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thoti takest no knowledge ? Behold, the reason is, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure.', and exact all your labour ; you ßnd wKeremth to pleas? yaw4 stlies, and yet are rigorous in burdening ci/iern. Behold,... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...takest no knowledge ? Behold, in the day of your fast ye tind pleasure, and exact all your labours. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite...with the fist of wickedness : ye shall not fast as yc do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen '. a... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...exact, on that day, which should be solemnly holy, the hardest labours and most servile works. LVIII. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite...wickedness : ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to makt your voice to be heard on high. holiness : such a fast as this is, is not that, which shall win... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...cleanse the outside of the cup, while I am within full of extortion and excess? Matt, xxiii. 25. Shall I fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness? Isa. Iviii. 4. Shall I, under pretence of long prayers, devour widows' houses ? Matt, xxiii. 14. Shall... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1810 - 594 pages
...fasted, and thou seest not? Wherefore have 4' we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? ** — Behold in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, "...strife "and debate, and to smite with the fist of wicked' " ness."* The substantial and permanent effects of repentance, and faith in GOD'S mercy, must... | |
 | William Wake - 1810 - 418 pages
...deprive us of our spiritual life. 3. Wherefore he again speaketh to them, concerning the things : " ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? Is it to bow down his... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...say they, and thou seejt not ? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge ? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Ver. 4. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness ; ye shall... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1813 - 536 pages
...because it cannot be acceptable to a benevolent Deity. Listen to a great prophet on that subject : " Behold, ye fast for strife and " debate, and to smite...ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your * A sect of Christians, styled Flagettanles, held, that flagellation is of equal virtue with baptism... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...say the'y, and thnu seest not ? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge > Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Ver. 4. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness ; ye shall... | |
 | John Stanford - 1814 - 450 pages
...reprehension. In the days of Isaiah, when that people held their fast, he thus reproved them by his prophet : Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite...this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul f Is it to bow down his... | |
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