| Philip Charles Soulbieu DESPREZ - 1857 - 158 sider
...flame from off the altar, depicts its glory in language such as inspiration can alone supply. " 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... | |
| Jonathan Bayley (Rev. DD.) - 1858 - 660 sider
...thirty-one, where the language of the whole chapter is unquestionably allegorical. " Behold," it is said, " 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."—ver. 3. Of the Assyrian thus represented... | |
| Thomas Ray Eaton - 1858 - 212 sider
...the prophet Ezekiel suggested these images to Shakespeare. [" Thus yields the 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. * * " All the fowls of heaven made... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 sider
...of the eternal city. For twentyfive centuries they had been hidden from the eye of man, and now they stood forth once more in their ancient majesty. But...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... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 686 sider
...New Babylonian Empire emerged into historic prominence. « CHAPTER III. THE RISE OF ASSYRIA 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... | |
| John Hays Gardiner - 1906 - 426 sider
...accomplished, in the figure of a parable spoken to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: » Rev. xiii. 1-4, 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... | |
| John Hays Gardiner - 1906 - 428 sider
...accomplished, in the figure of a parable spoken to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: 1 Rev. xiii. 1-4. 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... | |
| Paul Griswold Huston - 1906 - 376 sider
...glorious." The description of the cedar in E/ekiel (chapter xxxi, 3-9) is especially to be noticed: "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs. The waters nourished... | |
| Paul Griswold Huston - 1906 - 378 sider
...glorious." The description of the cedar in Ezekiel (chapter xxxi, 3-9) is especially to be noticed: "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs. The waters nourished... | |
| A. Cunnick Inchbold - 1907 - 328 sider
...days when for a man to be compared to a cedar of Lebanon was a token of the highest appreciation. " 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 . . . nor was any tree in the garden... | |
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