 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 540 pages
...JOB. Job iv. 12—19. Now a thing wax secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep...there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Behold, he put no trust... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 pages
...received a little thereof." "In thoughts from, of, visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on man, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my...mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice," &c. That is, his senses were in exercise, but the image was too fine, too aerial, for his complete... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...thing was secretly brought to me in thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep fallcth the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises. Ro. ix. 3,4. Be cast out into 1 could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there uws silence, and 1 heard... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...passage of the book of Job. " In thoughts from the visions of the " night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me, and "trembling, which made...before mine eyes; there was silence; and I heard a voice—Shall "mortal man be more just than God ?"t (Job iv. 15.) No ideas, it is plain, are so sublime... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...descriptions of ghosts ; that of Job is the most prominent. In the night, " when deep sleep falleth on man, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my...mine eyes ; there was silence, and I heard a voice," &c. Ossian says, — "I saw the ghost of night ; silent he stood ; his robe of mist flew on the wind.... | |
 | John Foster - 1833 - 202 pages
...indistinctness rousing the imagination is finely depicted in Job 4:14. Eliphaz describes it thus:— "Fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my...still, but I could not discern the form thereof." The senses in this description are but slightly affected : the eye could not discern any specific form,... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling - 1834 - 498 pages
...insert: "Now a word was addressed to me in secret; and mine ear received a little thereof. t • • In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep...there was silence; and I heard a voice, saying, "Shall mortal man be more just than God'; shall a man be more pure than his Maker? " In the New Testament,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...uncertainty of the thing described : In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me and trembling, which made all...mine eyes ; there was silence ; and I heard a voice, — Shall mortal man be more just than God ? We are first prepared with the utmost solemnity for the... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling - 1834 - 514 pages
...received •• little thereof. " In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falkith on men, "Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made...was before mine eyes; there was silence; and I heard » voice, saying, " Shall mortal man be more just than God'; shall a man be more pure than his Maker?... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...indistinctness rousing the imagination, is finely depicted in Job iv. 14. Eliphaz describes it thus — "Fear came upon me, and trembling which made all my...still, but I could not discern the form thereof." The senses, in this description, are but slightly affected ; the eye could not discern any specific... | |
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In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern... 
