 Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit...  Life and Works: A Collection of Pamphlets - Страница 124написао/ла Joanna Southcott - 1813Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 726 страница
...luctu, c. 12. See notes on Exod. xi. 6 ; Ecclcs. xii. 5. ; Jer. ix. 17 ; Ezek. viii. 14. 19. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went...leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Hence the proverb— " Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdin." 21. I hate, I despise your feast... | |
 | 1866 - 212 страница
...HOUSES. Amos v. 19. — "AS IF A MAN BID FLEE FROM A LION, AND A BEAU MET HIM : OR WENT. INTO THF. HOUSE, AND LEANED HIS HAND ON THE WALL, AND A SERPENT BIT HIM." 1483. Serpents in Eastern Houses. — Serpents sometimes conceal themselves in the holes and chinks... | |
 | 1864 - 922 страница
...common serpent, is referred to. In the last it is associated with the lion and the bear: "If a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his head on the wall, and a serpent bit him." The passage in Genesis introduces us both to the true reptile,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1865 - 736 страница
...of the whirlwind ; or rather, to express it in the Prophet's words, it will be to him 'as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him, or went...leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him ;'* the end, we fear, of many a wearied spirit, which for very hopeless weariness stays in the disappointing... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1865 - 398 страница
...domicile. We find a passage in the prophet Amos that distinctly alludes to this fact : — ' As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went...leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.' Amos v. 19. It is nearly certain that this is the snake which the ancients described under the name... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1865 - 976 страница
...of the Lord! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went...leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the .day of the Lord be darkness, and not light ? even very dark, and no brightness in it?... | |
 | Samuel Gosnell Green - 1865 - 292 страница
...brightens into morning. When he wants to speak of sudden and unexpected danger, it is "as if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him, or went into...leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." Or, if he describes labour in vain, it is by the picture of horses running upon a rock and oxen trying... | |
 | 1865 - 610 страница
...of the whirlwind ; or rather, to express it in the Prophet's words, it will be to him 'as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned bis hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him;'* the end, we fear, of many a wearied spirit, which for... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 страница
...and the prophet Amos thus describes a man who, shunning one danger, falls into another: "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him, or went...leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him," Amos v. 19. It is figuratively said that in the future times of peace " the cow and the bear shall... | |
 | Paul Baynes - 1866 - 430 страница
...wicked to consume them, God hath a pit, snare, fear ; as Isa. xxiv. 17, or as Amos v. 19, ' As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went...leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him ;' that is, he hath one evil in the neck of another to destroy him, so in the day of temptation he... | |
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