 | Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...noon, Elijah mocked them, saying, Cry aloud, for he is a god, either he is talking or is pursuing, or is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their manner with knives, and lancets, till the blood gushed... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him. Elijah mocked the priests of Baal, saying, cry aloud for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is pursuing,...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked. Ver. 29. There was neither voice nor any to answer. 2 Kinssxix. 18. They were no gods. Ch. xviii. 35.... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - 1808 - 426 pages
...Elijah uses the same mode of expression to the false prophets, ( 1 Kings, xviii. 27.) " Cry aloud 5 for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing,...or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." The words, taken in this sense, lead us to reflect, I. On the vices young people too commonly fall... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...altar which was made. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : o Gkleon, Rule thou over us, both thnu, 28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 pages
...of Baal, mocked them with the most pointed irony, or ridicule, and said of their god, " Cry aloud, 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.) A similar passage is to be found in the book of the Prophet Isaiah, (ch. xliv.... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - 600 pages
...satyrical than Elijah's advice to the besotted priests of Baal ? He mocked them and said, " Cry aloud, for he is a God ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing,...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked." The style of the ancient prophets is remarkable for its gravity and solemnity ; and yet in no author... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1811 - 316 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1815 - 706 pages
...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, or he is pursuing,...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... | |
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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. 
