 | 1839 - 438 pages
...How often with Moses and Whitefield, (who frequently used these words,) do I feel inclined to say, " Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them ! " When in better times the Lord gave the word, " great was the company of those that published it."... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...judge a man by his desires, says the preacher ; and his desire is that ol Moses, Num. x. 1 — 2. " Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets,...and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them. ' The world, he opines, would have assumed a goodlier aspect, had this wish been fulfilled : il would... | |
 | Thomas Lewis - 1839 - 404 pages
...them as the best token of God's blessing on his own ministry ; and will be ready to say, "Would to God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them." Finally, the members of a christian church owe to the world around them, 3. ^4. cheerful assistance... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 288 pages
...what influence they were speaking, and requested Joshua to dismiss his also. " Would God," said he, " that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them." After this Moses and the elders went into the camp. A wind, sent by the Lord expressly for the purpose,... | |
 | Benjamin Hanbury - 1839 - 628 pages
...edification or comfort of the church, could full from elsewhere than from their lips ? Moses wished that ' all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them ; ' and Paul gives liberty to ' the whole church,' and to ' all ' in it, women excepted, to ' prophesy... | |
 | John Ortberg, Mindy Caliguire, Judson Poling - 2003 - 166 pages
...Joshua says, "Moses, my lord, stop them!" Moses, says, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all of the LORD'S people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!" The humility of Moses shows through, and we can almost hear him say, "I really don't want... | |
 | Reid Barbour - 2003 - 448 pages
...religious society. This wider distribution of charisma is supported by Moses's exclamation, 'I wish that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would confer his spirit on them all' (Num. 11: 29-30, NEB, 151). This conferral might simply lead to people... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2004 - 588 pages
...Ptolemy II (285-246 BC)] 35 Numbers 11:29 ["And Moses said unto him [Joshua], Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets,...and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!"], quoted in M, Preface, [p1. i] K2:306 [£96]. 36 Spenser, Letter to Raleigh [in The Faerie Queene, ed.... | |
 | Sergius Bulgakov - 2004 - 420 pages
...Old Testament analogue of this text is Moses' speech, which is read on the feast of the Pentecost: "would God that all the Lord's people were prophets,...and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!" [Num. 11:29].) This prophecy has a universal character, but its authentic exegesis indicates that the... | |
 | Jeffery Donaldson, Alan Mendelson - 2004 - 420 pages
...of the seventy authorized to prophesy at Mount Sinai but upon whom the 'spirit rested' nonetheless: 'would God that all the Lord's people were prophets,...and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them' (Numbers 11:26-9; cf. Erdman, 96). 37 If we look in the Oxford English Dictionary for this sense of... | |
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And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them! 
