| John Comly, Isaac. eّo a̲o Comly - 1837 - 428 pàgines
...ancient language as applicable to Us: " I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; but how art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me." Is not this in too general a way the case with as? Have we not seen the seeds of pride, and of cruelty,... | |
| 1837 - 210 pàgines
...We are plants of a strange vine," whose degenerate nature cannot be changed by any human effort. " Though thou wash thee with nitre and take thee much soap, yet thy iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God." It is the universal law of nature, that every... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pàgines
...that have been introduced into the christian profession. Says God with regard to the Jewish people : " I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed....into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?" Jer. ii. 21. The statutes delivered to the people of Israel were good and right. The laws of moral... | |
| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1838 - 540 pàgines
...abominable Priests whom I have just addressed. Only see the height from whence you have fallen: "Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed...into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me." You have become wholly corrupted: for having eyes, you see not{ having ears, you hear not; having minds,... | |
| Henry Hasted - 1838 - 218 pàgines
...heathen and planted it, thou madest room for it, and when it had taken root it filled the land."0 " I planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how...turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me."7 5 Isaiah v. 3. 6 Psalm Ixxx. 8. 7 Jeremiah ii. 21. Nothing, perhaps, more aptly figures the very... | |
| John Walker - 1838 - 624 pàgines
...lie, neither the Son. of man that he should repent" — or change his mind. And again that word — " though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much...iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God." In that effort to escape apprehended wrath, and become acceptable to God, some very easily satisfy... | |
| Edward J. Young - 1992 - 556 pàgines
...and he planted it with choice vines — So the Lord remarks through His prophet Jeremiah (2:21), "Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed;...into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?" God planted the elite of the vines; indeed, they were so choice that a vale in Palestine which was... | |
| Stephen N. Haskell - 1993 - 452 pàgines
...flesh is heir when it stands to hattle with the world and the devil, without the aid of .Christ. " For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked hefore Me, saith the Lord God." This Book of Death is referred to when Hosea says : " The iniquity... | |
| Nancy Dew Taylor - 1994 - 290 pàgines
...what shadow, what stain, what mark: Cf. Gen. 4:15: "And the Lord set a mark on Cain"; and Jer. 2:22: "For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee...much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me." Cf. 177.1/170.16; 202.3/193.23. In this passage, Roth recognizes a shadow, stain, or mark on Zack's... | |
| Ruth Paxson - 514 pàgines
...power of the natural man to change his evil heart? God's Word gives a conclusive answer. Jeremiah 2:22, "For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee...iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD." Through self-cultivation, self-discipline and self-effort many men and women have been able to accomplish... | |
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