| George Bush - 1831 - 484 pages
...loosing of their travelling gear, and taking off their burdens. A similar usage occurs 1 Kings 20. 11, 'Let not him that girdeth on his harness, boast himself as he that pullel/i it off;' Heb. ' as he that openeth it.' Ps. 102. 20, ' To loose those that are appointed to... | |
| Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 pages
...Ahab, who was in the city, with insolent messages ; but Ahab significantly reproved him by saying, " Let not him that girdeth on his harness, boast himself as he that putteth it off." Ahab then reviewed the people in Samaria, who amounted to 7000, and making a sally at noon-day, (while... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...harmlessness of the dove."] 1 Matt. x. 37. CCCL. AGAINST SELF-CONFIDENCE. 1 Kings xx. 1 1. Let not kim that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. HOWEVER blinded men are in reference to their own sins, they can easily discern sin in others, and... | |
| Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pages
...hamlfals for all the people that follow me. 11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself, as he that mitteth it off. 12 And it came to piss, when Ben-hadaii heard this message, (as he was drinking, he... | |
| Lucius Manlius Sargent, M. L. V. - 1833 - 290 pages
...all this shouting and clapping of hands, as somewhat premature. We remembered the wise saying,—' Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.' We knew that the easiest part only of the work was done,—that difficulties and perils were yet to... | |
| William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...for the trial ; not with that fear which diminishes hope, but with that which forbids boasting—" Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off." DECEMBER 21. — "I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath... | |
| Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...brethren. " It is naught.it is naught, saith the buyer : but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. 13 Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. LESSON LXVIII. A MERBY heart doeth good like a medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 2 The... | |
| John Hughes - 1834 - 498 pages
...a Protestant's breast, as well as in mine, by the recollection of Ahab's admonition to Benhadad, " Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off." Sounding epithets, your readers find, are not synonymous with solid arguments ; and the skill of the... | |
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