 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.  Folklore - Page 423edited by - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Adams - 1848 - 912 pages
...22. " When his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that trust in him," Psal. ii. 12. "The coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame," Cnnt. viii. 6. Wild-fire may be tamed, streams of fire have been quenched; only that fire can never... | |
 | Philip Wood - 1849 - 348 pages
...or symbol of love, Solomon's Song, viii. 6. " Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thy arm : for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel...are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame" Natural fire or heat constitutes natural and animal life, which corresponds by analogy to spiritual... | |
 | 1849 - 510 pages
...as it should be, naked, abstract Jealousy is our theme. — Solomon pours bitter epithets upon it. " Cruel as the grave, the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame." When this spirit seizes the heart, the glory of virtue, the sanctity of holiness, or the value of life... | |
 | Hermann Olshausen - 1849 - 456 pages
...express the same idea, first negatively and then positively. They both describe the nature of lovo — " The coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. " (Cantío, viii. C.) lu addition to many earlier commentators and critics, some of the moderns, especially... | |
 | John Hooper - 1850 - 598 pages
...belongs abstractly to love. Hence love and jealousy are used conjointly in the cut. viii. c. Canticles, " Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon...grave ; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which have a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." This... | |
 | Robert Milman (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1850 - 44 pages
...what thou needest, this is what thou criest for : for love is strong as death, jealousy cruel [hard] as the grave ; the coals thereof are coals of fire,...a most vehement flame : many waters cannot quench it, neither can the floods drown it. Consider, therefore, and understand. 1 Philip, i. 6. I have appointed... | |
 | Henry Hammond - 1850 - 340 pages
...Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a vehement flame." She had before often lost her beloved, which made her so fiercely fasten on him, for... | |
 | Adelaide Leaper NEWTON - 1850 - 256 pages
...cruel as the grave." "As the grave will not give up its dead, so neither will Jesus give up his own." " The coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." (Heb., " The coals thereof are the flames of the fire of the Lord.") " Coals of fire" — elsewhere... | |
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