 | A. Yosy - 1823 - 304 pages
...or may still be in the melancholy retrospect of the few and evil days of my pilgrimage ; for ' few and evil have the days of the years of my life been.' Our child was now drooping quickly ; and while we watched over her, as she gradually waned to the grave,... | |
 | 1823 - 154 pages
...of his life to Pharoah ? The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. (47 Gn. 9.) 3. How does Moses contrast the eternity of God with man's fading life? Thou turnest man... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1824 - 654 pages
...country, that is, an heavenly one. This was Jacob's language when he appeared before Pharaoh : Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,...days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the doys of their pilgrimage, Gen. xlvii. 9. And not only the ancient patriarchs, who never had any olher... | |
 | James Ellice - 1824 - 92 pages
...have said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,...the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their pilgrimage? Figurative, too, as they may partly be, it cannot be doubted that Moses alluded to... | |
 | 1828 - 594 pages
...Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage." This is a short and comprehensive... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 1624 pages
...civil reverence that pious affection which causes him to commend the safety of the king to God. 9. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. Jacob may here seem to complain that he had lived but a little while, and that, in this short space... | |
 | Watchman Nee - 1999 - 160 pages
...the days of their pilgrimage" (vv. 8-9). Here we find the release of this man's spirit. He said, "Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." This described his whole life. This old man had gone through many sufferings before he could say this... | |
 | Gordon Slynn Baron Slynn of Hadley - 2000 - 724 pages
...emerging in the age of globalization. ESSAI TYPOLOGIQUE 42 SONS, AND HATERS...! Joseph Weiler I "FEW AND EVIL HAVE THE DAYS OF THE YEARS OF MY LIFE BEEN"] One of the defining characteristics of Scripture as literary narrative is its unflinching and brutally... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...invisible Director of their route should appoint, however barren or thorny the spot might appear. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,* says the aged Israel. But that life was but his pilgrimage, and he trusted in the promises. Thus were... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 2002 - 230 pages
...of Human Life' '77ie days of the years of my pilgrimage arc an hundred and thiny years; few and evH have the days of the years of my life been; and have...life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage. ' [Genesis 47:9] [...] When life is past, it is all one whether it has lasted two hundred years or... | |
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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their... 
