| Hannah Neale - 1813 - 394 pàgines
...dear. But the people, when they saw the, miracle that was wrought, cried out, in their own language, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. Barnabas they called Jupiter, and Paul Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker: according to the... | |
| Paul Wright - 1814 - 428 pàgines
...been initiated into the superstitious customs of the Heathens, cried out, in the speech of Lycoania, " The Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." And accordingly they called Barnabas Jupiter, because of his venerable gravity, and, Paul, Mercury,... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1814 - 524 pàgines
...when he had healed the cripple by a mere word of command, the people cried out with exalted voices, * The gods are come * down to us in the likeness of men:' immediately they made a Mercury of St. Paul, they turned I • • n:tbas into Jupiter, and the priests... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 622 pàgines
...Lystra, when, a/ter beholding, the miraculous cure of the crjpple, they lift up their voicesj .saying, " The Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men !*' Would it have been at all wonderful,, if the Apostles themselves, who were so highly honoured by... | |
| Alexander Murray (Schoolmaster) - 1815 - 564 pàgines
...condescension in their gods; for when Paul and Barnabas had cured the impotent man at Lystra, they cried " The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." They wondered at so great condescension, but never imagined that their gods had less divinity, or were... | |
| Charles Buck - 1815 - 202 pàgines
...to another, so that his life was not safe in the land of Israel. Of Paul and Barnabas they said, " the gods are come down to us in the likeness of men !" They called the one Jupiter, and the other Mercury ; and it was with' difficulty they were prevented... | |
| 1815 - 608 pàgines
...Now the people seeing what Paul had done, raised up their voices, saying, in the Lycaonian language, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. J2. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was tjie chief speaker. 13. Then... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 pàgines
...Barnabas cured a man lame from his birth. When the people saw this, " they lift up their voices saying, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." The priest of .Jupiter had prepared oxen and garlands, and would have done sacrifice with the people.... | |
| William Ward - 1815 - 588 pàgines
...rich Hindoos have a room on the top of the house, in which they perform worship daily. Acts xiv. 11. " The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." Innumerable accountsTreToUeTounid in the Hindoo pooraniis, of the descent of Briimha, Vishnoo, Shivfi,... | |
| 1817 - 610 pàgines
...wrought by Paul upon the impotent man, they "lifted up their voices, saying, in the speech of Lycaonia, the Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest... | |
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