 | Edward Kimpton - 1813 - 536 pages
...answer being yet given by Baal, the prophet Elijah, to aggravate their perplexities, mocked them saying, Cry aloud; for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.* This had the intended effect: they... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 pages
...this trope occurs in the scriptures. Thus the prophet Elijah speaks in irony to the priests of Baal, Cry aloud, for he is a GOD ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps, and must to awaked. See also Job xii. 2. Eccles. xi. 9. Gen.... | |
 | 1813 - 442 pages
...understand Elijah — ' And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, — ' Cry alond : for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing ; or he is on a journey ; or, peradventure, he ileepeth, and must be awaked.' This superstitious notion of the... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, John Millard - 1813 - 712 pages
...in the scriptures. Thus the prophet .Elijah speaks in irony to the priests of Baal, Cry al0tid,for he is a GOD ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps, and must be awaked. See also Job xii. 2. Eccles. xi. 9- Gen.... | |
 | John Trumbull - 1813 - 124 pages
...leave with her his commission, And Neptune erst, in treaty free, Hive up dominion o'er the sea ? t " Cry aloud ; for he is a god; either he is talking, or he i : pursuing, or he is in a journey, or pefallventure he sleepctlu And they cried aloud, and cut themselves... | |
 | 1815 - 706 pages
...leaped upon the altar which was made. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking,...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. 29 And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 382 pages
...he challenged the priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity, •-' mocked them, and said : Cry aloud, for he is a god : either he is talking,...in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must lie awaked." Exclamations and Irony are sometimes united : as in Cicero's oration for Balbus, where... | |
 | William Ward - 1815 - 588 pages
...the golden feet. ;v 470 HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND RELIGION, [PART in. CHAP. TH. f 1 Kings xviii. 27. " He is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or perad venture he sleepeth, and must be awaked." Vifihnoo ^.^•*.'— ; sleeps four months in the year... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...made. 27. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, " Cry " aloud : for he (/) it a god, either he is " talking, or he is pursuing,...or peradventure he sleepeth, " and must be awaked." 28. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1816 - 548 pages
...addressing them in a strain of what has usually been considered as nothing more than severe irony. Cry aloud ; for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey ; or ptr advent ure he slecpeth, and must be awaked.1 Now this is doubtless irony: but the force of it is... | |
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And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. 
