| Adelia Cleopatra Graves, None - 1854 - 132 pages
...all circumstances, show respect to aged people. She teaches us that text from the Bible, " Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man." She tells us that other old persons, besides those we know and love, have probably suffered and enjoyed... | |
| John Mitchell - 1855 - 280 pages
...is coupled also respect for age, and for superiors generally. Honor thy father and thy mother, and, Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, are precepts which generally stand or fall together. I do not forget the reproof I once received with... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1855 - 156 pages
...himself towards them. His bearing was ever in accordance with the scriptural injunction, " Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God." Nor was this all. Whenever, by a certain infallible instinct, he detected that within... | |
| Horace H. Reid - 1855 - 44 pages
...as his," and well is it enjoined in one of the earliest written precepts of GOD'S Word, " Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man."* Length of days, wherever and in whatever found, bespeaks a richness of quality, a ripeness of worth,... | |
| John Brown - 1855 - 804 pages
...shalt lend thy brother anything, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge ;" " Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man. I am the Lord ; Thou shalt not curse the deaf; Thou shalt not put a stumbling block before the blind... | |
| Charles Lowell - 1855 - 388 pages
...way of righteousness,' will command a respectful attention. Under these circumstances, we naturally 'rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old.' If these circumstances do not exist, if this sense of dignity of character is voluntarily relinquished,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1964 - 444 pages
...NY Treatment of the aged is a test by which to judge the moral character of a society. "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man" (Leviticus 19:32) is a commandment with renewed significance. In a time of rapidly increasing longevity and rising... | |
| Solomon Simon, Morrison David Bial - 1966 - 224 pages
...shall not eat anything with its blood; neither shall you practice divination nor soothsaying. "You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old. "And if a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger that sojourns... | |
| Moses Maimonides - 1972 - 516 pages
...Chapter 6 ([ i It is a duty to honor every scholar, even if he is not one's teacher, as it is said, "You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man" (Lev. 19:32). "Old man" refers to one who has acquired wisdom. < 3 It is improper for a sage to put... | |
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