Hebrew Ideals from the Story of the Patriarchs: Genesis 25-50T.& T.Clark, 1910 - Bible |
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Abraham beautiful become Beersheba Bethel better Bible birthright blessing brethren brother called Canaan character child conscience covenant D.D. Price daughters Dean Church death divine dreams earth Edom Egypt Egyptian Ephrath Esau evil eyes face faith father fear feeling forget Genesis George Eliot gift give glory God's grace guilty hand happy Haran hath heart heathen heaven Hebrew holy honour hope human ideal imagination innocent Isaac Israel Jacob Joseph Judah kiss Laban land land of Goshen light lives LORD man's Manasseh mind moral mother nation nature never night Old Testament passion peace Pharaoh plead Potipherah prayer presence prison promises prophet Rachel realised Rebekah regarded religion sacred says sense servant Shechem shepherds sleep sons sorrow soul speak spirit story strong tears temptation thee things Thomas à Kempis thou thought true truth unto uttered vision weep wonderful words young
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Page 48 - O GOD of Bethel ! by whose hand Thy people still are fed ; Who through this weary pilgrimage Hast all our fathers led ! 2 Our vows, our prayers we now present Before thy throne of grace : God of our fathers ! be the God Of their succeeding race. 3 Through each perplexing path of life Our wandering footsteps guide : Give us each day our daily bread. And raiment fit provide. 4 O spread thy covering wings around, Till all our wanderings cease, And, at our Father's loved abode, Our souls arrive in peace....
Page 166 - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
Page 15 - Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) 10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go.
Page 132 - I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood.
Page 63 - God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee...
Page 125 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Page 66 - Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau : for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Page 39 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know At first sight if the bird be flown ; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown. And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes. And into glory peep.
Page 115 - As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne...
Page 51 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.