 | William Jenkyn - 1839 - 392 pàgines
...anger especially, by the word impotentia, impotcncy and weakness; and hence Solomon, " He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls," Prov. xxv. 28 : what so weak and beggarly, and so much at the cruel courtesy of every invader, as a... | |
 | 1839 - 920 pàgines
...mastery of himself is a matter of the first importance to a minister of the gospel. " He (hat hath no rule over his own spirit, is like a city that is broken down, and without walls." If I this is true of men in secular employments, it is emphatically true of the Christian minister.... | |
 | Andrew Gray - 1839 - 508 pàgines
...rules not his own heart, but gives it leave to rove here and there, is, Prov. xxv. 28, He that hath not rule over his own spirit, is like a city that is broken down, and wiihout walls. There are these two disadvantages that wait upon not keeping of the heart, 1. There... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1840 - 844 pàgines
...stature ; not, however, beyond the limits of possibility." MAIMOMDES. f Prov. xxv. 28 : " He that hath no rule over his own spirit, is like a city that is broken down, and without walls." "The want of a right government of the spirit was, in the judgment of Solomon, so great a dishonour... | |
 | Israel - 1840 - 152 pàgines
...any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." We read, Prov. xxv. 28, " He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls." The ways of sin are not easily forsaken ; bad generally leads to worse. We find Samson again involved... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - 1840 - 282 pàgines
...evils come of this transgression. How necessary, then, the government of the passions. " He that hath no rule over his own spirit, is like a city that is broken down and without walls ;" open to every invading enemy. We see the need of the duty here named, in nearly all the common occurrences... | |
 | Philip D. Kenneson - 1999 - 252 pàgines
...sentiment is expressed by the writer of Proverbs, who employs the image of a walled city: "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls" (Prov 25:28 KJV). Although wisdom traditions have generally agreed that unconstrained passion and desire... | |
 | Beverly Hyles - 2000 - 260 pàgines
...cultivate the right mental attitude because of the warning we are given in Proverbs 25:28: "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls." Do you know your spirit is controlled by your mental attitude — the things about which you think?... | |
 | W. Edward Glenny, William H. Smallman - 416 pàgines
...stores standards and guides application. A controlled heart gives the keys to God (Rom. 12:2). Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, without walls. (Prov. 25:28 NKJV) 4. A respectful heart is a courageous heart — "Be strong and very... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 pàgines
...spring. It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest; so honour is not seemly for a fool. As the bird by wandering,... | |
| |
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. 
