| William Nevins - 1837 - 464 pàgines
...atheistical tendency. " Who is the Lord that I should obey him?" said Pharaoh ; and Nebuchadnezzar asks, " is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty ?" A ware of this tendency ;... | |
| William Evans - 1837 - 508 pàgines
...before the pride of his power had filled his heart, and then his mouth, with this haughty question, " Is not this great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?" But we are told, that while... | |
| John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1838 - 288 pàgines
...Herod, was lifted up by the pride of his wealth and majesty. " He walked in the palace, and the king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, for the honour of my majesty ? While the word was in the king's... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 264 pàgines
...and we read that, ' at the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon,' and said, ' Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty ?' While he was thus thinking... | |
| Thomas Griffith - 1838 - 216 pàgines
...worldly-mindedness, again, fell Nebuchadnezzar, when he " walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon, and said, Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, and for the honour of my majesty I" By this, the ostentatious Herod provoked the Lord,... | |
| William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pàgines
...may be said to have built it. Hence we find him thus exclaiming, in his own vain-glorious boast, " Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?" Dan. iv. 30. It is frequently... | |
| Edward Edwards (Rector of Penegoes.) - 1838 - 372 pàgines
...Hear, again, how the same mighty king boasted of his strength and the strength of his kingdom : " Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?"1 But, ah ! how sud* 2 Kings... | |
| George Rogers - 1839 - 396 pàgines
...Nebuchadnezzar, the proud monarch of Babylon, was afforded an experimental proof of this. " The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? While the word was in the... | |
| Robert Pedder Buddicom - 1839 - 1038 pàgines
...been an idolater as flagrant as Nebuchadnezzar, when he said concerning the city of his pride, " Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ; " or as if he had joined... | |
| Matthew Blagden Hale (Bishop of Perth, Australia.) - 1839 - 444 pàgines
...such a favoured condition ? Is not our feeling generally rather that of the proud Eastern king ? " Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?" And because we gave not... | |
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