 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1841 - 546 pages
...Strive not with a man -without cause, if he have done thee m> harm. 1 Cor. vi. 7. (3) Isa. v. 8. Wo unto them that join house to house, that lay field...they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth ! Mic. ii. 2. — They covet fields, and take thembj violence; and houses, and take them away. (41... | |
 | Catechisms, English - 1841 - 224 pages
...Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm. 1 Cor. vi. 7. (3) Isa. T. 8. Wo unto them that join house to house, that lay field...they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth ! Mic. ii. 2. — They covet fields, and take t/iem by violence ; and houses, and take them away. (4)... | |
 | Christianity - 1841 - 730 pages
...strange to say, not only does he thus incur the woe denounced against those who " add house to house, and lay field to field ; till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth ; " but in good truth, if it were not for annual immigrations of labourers from the sister island,... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1841 - 448 pages
...those in Judea of old, whom the prophet reproves,6 saying, " Woe unto them that join house to house and field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth." Or perhaps luxury and magnificence of living has most attraction. Then " the lust of the flesh " is... | |
 | Robert Benton Seeley - Great Britain - 1842 - 706 pages
...especially condemned and prohibited by the Divine lawgiver, in the messages of various of His prophets. " Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field...they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth." (Isa. v. 8.) In fact, this was obviously one great end of the whole enactment;—the precluding the... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 592 pages
...message. Yet the objective element in the specifically artistic presentation remains. Take the following: Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! In mine ears saith the Lord of hosts,... | |
 | M. J. Turner - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 340 pages
...earth was recognized 2000 years ago by Isaiah who is quoted in the Bible as having told his people," Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field...that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!"-1 This quotation would then be footnoted as follows: 4 As quoted by MJ Turner in E.\riiiciion... | |
 | S. Todd Lowry, Barry Lewis John Gordon - Business & Economics - 1998 - 628 pages
...left to itself, ie to random processes, land ownership tends to concentrate, as the prophet complains: Woe unto them that join house to house, That lay field to field, Till there is be no room, and ye be made to dwell Alone in the midst of the land! (Jes. 5:8). Those owning huge... | |
 | Charles J. Farmer - Business & Economics - 1999 - 282 pages
...experience that satisfies the craving we have for truly wild lands and untamed waters. 7 Mingo Wilderness Woe unto them that join house to house, That lay field...they may be placed alone In the midst of the earth. ISAIAH MINGO AND HERCULES Glades became Missouri's first congressionally designated Wilderness Areas... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...looked for judgement, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. Isaiah ch. s, v. 7 18 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to Held, till there be no place. Isaiah ch. s> v. X 19 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.... | |
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Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth... 
