 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...  Every-day Religion - Pàgina 147per James Freeman Clarke - 1886 - 464 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Duncan Macgregor (of Dunoon.) - 1877 - 378 pàgines
...they mistake the voice of their lusts for the voice of God, and so call evil good and good evil, put darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter; they are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight, justify the wicked for reward, and... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1879 - 728 pàgines
...glosses on the rules of God's word, to bend them to a compliance wit h their lusts ; and so they " put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." They are subject to deceits and delusions about the things of this world They imagine that there is... | |
 | Henry William Burrows - 1880 - 200 pàgines
...but must bring a fresh mind to bear on points, and appeal to the law and the testimony, not putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter, but calling things by their right names, and standing out sturdily in never so small a minority, if we... | |
 | Elizabeth Jane Whately - 1880 - 136 pàgines
...painful labour of dealing with minds utterly demoralised ; who have been taught from infancy to put " darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter;" whose moral sense has been so utterly warped by evil surroundings and evil teachings, that to try to... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1882 - 402 pàgines
...the sentiment of the prophet Isaiah : " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." But neither the facts of experience nor the statements of the Bible, rightly understood, give any countenance... | |
 | William Robertson Smith - 1882 - 468 pàgines
...whole perceptions of these men were radically perverted : they called evil good and good evil, they put darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter (v. 20). Far from reading the lesson of Jehovah's displeasure, written so plainly on the page of contemporary... | |
 | Apostleship of prayer - 1883 - 444 pàgines
...of which the Prophet speaks when he says, " Woe to you that call evil good and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter."* The first step is of course the withdrawal of light, and it leaves the soul open to the machinations... | |
 | George Hawkins Pember - 1884 - 504 pàgines
...unerring bpirit Of UOd. TOr it Can Call CVll gOOd, perception of truth. ^ ood ^.l . ^ ^ darkness fa light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Nay, the wave of its magic wand can fill not only this life, but even the region beyond the river of... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1885 - 408 pàgines
...the sentiment of the prophet Isaiah : " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." But neither the facts of experience nor the statements of the Bible, rightly understood, give any countenance... | |
 | 1885 - 810 pàgines
...society with the words which alone define them. The tendency is to call good evil and evil good ; to put darkness for light and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Side by side with this tendency of the age is that of tjcfmixtr/ance in language. Etymology is cast... | |
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