 | 1882 - 792 pages
...was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay." That is just what God told him : " Is not my word like as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" That is the true Malleus, the divine writ De Herelico Comburendo. All the prophets, and all the apostles,... | |
 | 1927 - 462 pages
...that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? Is not my word like as a fire? And like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Therefore, U-hold, I am against the prophets that steal my words every one from his neighlx>r. Behold,... | |
 | Phyllis Mack - 1995 - 496 pages
...the soul of the prophet amidst all his visions"; and again, "[Prophecy] . . . entered upon the mind as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces."49 Smith also provided a quite fascinating account of the psychology of the visionary, describing... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 260 pages
...of God in the Gospel. Of the Gospel, when preached in Holy Spirit power, it is said, "Is not my word like as a fire? . . . and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" (Jer. 23:29). It was said of John the Baptist that "he was a burning and shining light . . ." (John... | |
 | R. A. Torrey - 2000 - 82 pages
...melt the cold heart and break the stubborn will, and yet forget that God has said: "Is not my word like as a fire? . . . and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" (Jer. 23:29). If we are to obtain fullness of power in life and service, we must feed upon the Word... | |
 | H. A. Ironside - 148 pages
...Maccabees, in the days of Antiochus, were called the hammers of God, and God has asked, "Is not my word like a fire? . . . and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" Preaching the gospel is just like hammering away at hard hearts. Alas, that there is so little response!... | |
 | 470 pages
...that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? 29 Is not my word like as a fire? and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? 30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.... | |
 | 1834 - 726 pages
...own, changed that cruelty into weeping, and confession, and brotherly love. God saith, Is not my word like as a fire ? and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? (Jer. xxiii. 29.) Now, if this be true of the word, — if it is quick and powerful, sharper than... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 598 pages
...vapid visions? Could the most credulous believe that the spirit of prophecy that once had flashed out as a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces, had sunk so low ? Did Joseph deliberately revive the years when the prophets prophesied falsely, and... | |
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Is not my word like as a fire ? and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? (Jer. 
