 | 390 pàgines
...separation from evil. (See Prov. ix.) The other always proposes something to be enjoyed in secret : " stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." The intrinsic character of this influence is, that one may retain the reputation of a true standing, and... | |
 | Jessie Fothergill - 1875 - 322 pàgines
...and enjoy—always. The iniquity may be delightful at first — we are told on excellent authority that ' stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.' There is also a counter-saying, not weighted with Scriptural authority, but very good in its way—'... | |
 | William Francis Pringle Noble - 1876 - 628 pàgines
...many of its sentences. " Man's goings are of the Lord ; how can a man then understand his own way ?" " Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." " The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord." " The righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked."... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 298 pàgines
...the abundance of the heart the month speaketh. No work is a disgrace ; the true disgrace is idleness. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. The child is father to the man. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. The lowing herd... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1878 - 302 pàgines
...will show her mercy, Michael ; for is not she our only child ? And the Lord's truth is in the saying, that ' stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.' " " 'But he knoweth not that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell,' "... | |
 | James Jershon Jezreel - 1881 - 314 pàgines
..."0 my soul come not thou into their secrets," — they search for dark and secret places, believing that : " stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there, and her guests in the depths of hell." — They know not... | |
 | William John Deane - 1891 - 678 pàgines
...the path of pleasure, promising sensual enjoyment and security. Ver. 17. — This is what she says: Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. The metaphor of "stolen waters" refers primarily to adulterous intercourse, as to "drink waters out of... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 728 pàgines
...us that there were still in his day some unhappy persons, instigated by the devil, by whom Resby's writings were secretly preserved, and their pernicious...text that "stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten hi secret is pleasant." The most important event that happened during the present period in the history... | |
 | George Forrest Browne - 1908 - 376 pàgines
...the spiritual life. " Avoid private feasting and secret drinking as a pitfall of hell. Solomon says that stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant, but the guests are in the depth of hell; he means that at such feasts there are demons present. Do... | |
 | Theodore Gerald Soares - 1915 - 400 pàgines
...Lady Folly is clamorous and shameless. She cries out to the passer-by, and her words are seductive, "Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant." The wise man well knows the dangerous fascination of the forbidden. He recognizes also the tragedy of ignorance.... | |
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... stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 
