| 1848 - 354 pàgines
...we fail, what would we have done if we had had to encounter theirs. As it is said in the Prophet, " If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied...thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan ' ?" But a time will come to us all when our great trial shall overtake us — the rain shall descend,... | |
| 1848 - 606 pàgines
...high places of the field ; " " we have not yet like them resisted unto blood, striving against sin." " If thou hast run with the footmen and they have wearied...thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan ?" Let us remember that God's eye is on the truth, that his interest and glory are more concerned in... | |
| 1851 - 620 pàgines
...behind, how tremendously and how ruinously shall we be distanced in the next thirty years to come ! ' If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied...land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thce, then how wilt thou do in the swellings of Jordan?" We select this as a picture of our great manufacturing... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1848 - 602 pàgines
...strange work of judgment coming upon this land. There is need now to ask that solemn question — " If in the land of peace wherein thou trustedst, they...thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan ?" Those believers will stand firmest who have no dependence upon self or upon creatures, but upon... | |
| 1856 - 596 pàgines
...God, and not incur the rebuke, If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small: if thmt hast run with the footmen and they have wearied thee, then how tcaut thou contend with horses ? . . . Most gladly, then, let him rejoice in these tribulations, Be... | |
| Randy Shankle - 1987 - 252 pàgines
...small. I am strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. My God never wearies or grows faint. If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied...thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? Jeremiah 12:5 You are in the land of peace. If you get weary and can't stretch it very far and wait... | |
| Fred Rosner - 1995 - 348 pàgines
...such as to deliver an important message. The Talmud (Sanhedrin 96a) interprets the biblical phrase "if thou hast run with the footmen and they have wearied thee, how canst thou contend with horses?" (Jer' 12:5) with a parable: A man once boasted that he could run... | |
| Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1997 - 326 pàgines
...archaic cadence which led the therapist towards an associative linking with the following passage: 'If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have...then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?' [our italics] (Jeremiah 12, 5) The 'Jordan' quotation remained latent, but yielded the manifest image... | |
| Robert P. Carroll, Stephen Prickett - 1998 - 1828 pàgines
...therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds ; because they said, He shall not see our last end. 5 H `S 6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee... | |
| Ira L. Milligan, Judy Milligan - 1997 - 541 pàgines
...race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain ( 1 Corinthians 9:24). I 211 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses'? (Jeremiah 12:5a) RUTS— See DITCH. SALT — Seasoning or Preservative: Covenant; acceptable; memorial;... | |
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