 | Augustus Clissold - 1861 - 714 страница
...not those who, by reason of confounding immutable distinctions, call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter? This is the Chaos of the moral senses : it may be the chaos of ignorance, hence of the mind in its... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1865 - 362 страница
...The mind becomes at length darkened, and the taste vitiated. They call evil good, and good evil; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! They are perfectly besotted ; and though in most things disappointed, yet still following after the... | |
 | 1893 - 464 страница
...Reversing the divine order of the world, they have called the bad good and the good bad. They have put darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter (Isaiah, v, 20). That which according to Christ's commandment (Matt, x, 8) they ought to have given... | |
 | Francis Goode - 1868 - 326 страница
...inevitably carries him to the choice, only of what is sinful. He calls evil good, and good evil ; puts darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Thus he is a miserable bond-slave of the devil ; not because God has taken from him his moral freedom... | |
 | Jesus Christ - 1868 - 402 страница
...character and properties of things. Though evil be called good, and good evil, — though darkness be put for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter, yet facts remain the same. Wisdom does not change, but is justified of all who follow her teaching.... | |
 | John Charles Martin - 1869 - 356 страница
...misinterpretation in their case is the substitution for them of words of different meaning ; as, when men ' put darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter : ' 1 and by such substitutions they may confound men's clearest ideas, and defeat the very end of... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - 1869 - 680 страница
...are suffering the just judgment of God. " They have called evil good, and good evil; they have put darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. They have justified the wicked for a reward, and taken away the righteousness of the righteous from... | |
 | Personal responsibility - 1869 - 174 страница
...recklessness which passes for goodnature, and a generous heart and a liberal hand ? Miserable misnomers ! darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Grievous as is waste of God's gifts, we must deplore all around us in this place, far more deplorable... | |
 | Personal responsibility - 1869 - 174 страница
...recklessness which passes for goodnature, and a generous heart and a liberal hand ? Miserable misnomers! dark-ness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Grievous as is waste of God's gifts, we must deplore all around us in this place, far more de-plorable... | |
 | Richard Cope Morgan - 1870 - 218 страница
...advantage over God's little flock of silly sheep, by subverting the counsel of the prophetic word, putting darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, until the very Church of Christ has been an unconscious deceiver as to the course of this age ; mistaking... | |
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Woe be to them who call good evil, and evil good, placing darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter... 
