| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 322 pages
...when he challenged the priests nf Baal to prove the truth of their deity, ' Mocked them, and said : ' 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 waked.' Exclamations and Irony are sometimes... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...pricfts of Baal to prove the truth of their deity : For it is faid cxprefs'y, " He mocked them, and laid, Cry aloud. for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is puriuins. or he is on a journey, or peradvcnture he ilecpeth, and muft be awaked." And Solomon take-;... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1810 - 504 pages
...And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a God: either be is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or, peradventure, ho sleepeth, and must be awaked!" Under this sanction I present the reader with the following humorous... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 352 pages
...the truth of their deity, -'' Mocked them? and said : Cry aloud, for he is a 532 APPENDIX. (Figures. god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be waked." Exclamations and Irony are sometimes... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 626 pages
...prophets wanted more fervour in their devotion, and a little more lip labour. " Cry aloud," saith he, " for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing,...or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked," 1 Kings xviii. 27. In like manner did the Saviour treat the Jewish blind guides in his days, who were... | |
| Thomas Cogan - 1812 - 520 pages
...was no voice, nor any that answered. 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 ; peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their... | |
| Isaac Taylor - 1812 - 774 pages
...caviller, or of Bome sufferer, who perhaps was whispering a comfortless surmise, " Perhaps the saint is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey,...or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked;" he says, No! no! banish the unworthy suspicion — can we impute to our divinity so ungracious, so... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 pages
...purify the air. It was not unbecoming the gravity of the prophet to mock Baal's priests, and to say, * 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 awakened,' 1 Kings xviii. 27. But sinful are,... | |
| 1813 - 778 pages
...call him to account, and say, What docst thou ? When Elijah " mocked" the priests of Baal, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god, either he is talking,...pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sieepeth, and must be awaked" (1 Kings, xviii. 27.); what was this but sarcastic irony ": But the grave... | |
| Thomas Cogan - 1813 - 528 pages
...was no voice, nor any that answered. 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 ; peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their... | |
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