 | 1853 - 444 sider
...they have stood forth for ages to testify her early power and renown; whilst those of îîineveh have but now appeared" to bear witness, in the words of...with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs — his height was exalted above all thau trees... | |
 | Charles Henry Churchill - 1853 - 450 sider
...but magnificent metaphor is sufficient, in the prophet's mind, to make his hero's apogaeon. " Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made him great, the deep... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1853 - 500 sider
...to himself. Thus in Ezek. xxxi. 3, the Assyrian king is compared with a magnificent cedar: " Behold, the Assyrian .was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature, and his top was among the thick boughs." Comp. also Ezek. xvii. 22 — 24,... | |
 | Joseph Bonomi - 1852 - 434 sider
...now in its zenith, and to this period the graphic description of the prophet applies : — " Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. " The waters made him great, the deep... | |
 | Susan Warner - 1853 - 868 sider
...speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude ; Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made him great, the deep... | |
 | 1853 - 400 sider
...all flesh was fed of it." So again the Assyrian empire is described in Ezek. xxxi. 3 — 6 : " Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made him very great, the... | |
 | 1853 - 428 sider
...Assyrian, at once the successor of Nimrod and precursor of Antichrist : — " Behold," says Ezekiel, " the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature. . . . The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers.... | |
 | Woodland gleanings - 1853 - 306 sider
...their giant arms. The prophet Ezekiel has given us the fullest description of ihe Cedar : " Behold the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. His boughs were multiplied, and his... | |
 | effendi Habeeb Risk Allah - 1853 - 406 sider
...cannot use better or more appropriate language than that of the prophet Ezekiel (xxxi. 3)—"Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature." Yet with all these combined advantages, of health, a delicious climate, and... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1854 - 468 sider
...the corn now waved. Egypt has monuments no less ancient and no less wonderful ; but they have stood I forth for ages to testify her early power and renown...with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs .... his height was exalted above all the... | |
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... the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs... 
