 | Edward Bickersteth - 1841 - 472 pages
...Josephus, said of them, neither did any city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever bring forth a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was from the beginning of the world.* Thus the gospel is a savour of death unto death, as well as of life unto life. And in proportion as... | |
 | Jews - 1841 - 610 pages
...their time and circumstances, to the character of the trangression committed. Thus Josephus remarks, "that neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever produce a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world," (Book... | |
 | Israel - 1841 - 1130 pages
...Josephus remarks, "that neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever produce a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world," (Book 5, c. 10.) " I suppose," he adds, " that had the Romans made any longer delay in coming, the... | |
 | Lucius Robinson Paige - 1844 - 416 pages
...of time, sink in comparison with those of the Jews." "Neither did any other city sutler such misery, nor did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness." J. War, Pref. 4, v. ch. x. 5. IT From the beginning of the world. World, — 1cosmos, (xurrfio;.) 22.... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - 1844 - 478 pages
...time, sink n comparison with those of the Jews." " Neither did any other city ever suffer such misery, given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas." St. Luke xi. 29, (J. Wrar. Pref. 4, vcx 5.) — -from the beginning of the world.] World, — kosmos. Ver. 22. Had not... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1851 - 416 pages
...aggrieved if the other surpassed him in any barbarity. The historian delivers it as his solemn verdict, " that neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries,...wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world." The circumstance of the poor starved wretches creeping forth to gather food, having been reported to... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip (bp. of California.) - 1853 - 318 pages
...the•dark and troubled waves, and spread over them a * Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. ii. f "Nor did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful...•wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world." Antiq. lib. v. chap. 10. glory not of this world. His trust was, in " the Church of the Living God,... | |
 | Burgon John William - 1855 - 370 pages
...finding it impossible to go distinctly over every instance of these men's iniquity, he will remark briefly that neither did any other city ever suffer...generation more fruitful in wickedness than this, from the beginning of the world. " The blended horrors of war and sedition, of famine and pestilence,... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1855 - 416 pages
...of the world, if they be compared to these of the Jews, are not so considerable as theirs were ;" " nor did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness from the beginning of the world." Not only did civil strife rage within the City, but three powerful... | |
 | Burgon John William - 1855 - 528 pages
...of the world, if they be compared to these of the Jews, are not so considerable as theirs were ;" " nor did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness from the beginning of the world." Not only did civil strife rage within the City, but three powerful... | |
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I shall therefore speak my mind here at once briefly, that neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world. 
