 | William Morrison Engles - Bible - 1845 - 204 pages
...and disappointed in his hopes, until he imagined that " man had no pre-eminence over a beast," and "praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive," and concluded that the negative condition of the unborn was to be preferred to that of either. He was... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Bible - 1846 - 1102 pages
...comforters ; and on the l side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 2 b , namely, 3 ° Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Future punishment - 1846 - 228 pages
...enjoy much while they are practising their oppressions, why should ' he say, as above quoted ? — " Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive." — Whether this sort of reasoning gave my Unitarian brother any satisfaction, or not, he did not directly... | |
 | Theology - 1846 - 792 pages
...under the sun, and the tears of such as were op'pressed, and they had no comforter," then, says he, " I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive." Chap. 4: 1,2. " AH things have I seen in the days of my vanity. There is a just man that perisheth... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1846 - 810 pages
...under the sun, and the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter," then, says he, " I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alire." Chap. 4: 1, 2. " All things have I seen in the days of my vanity. There is a just man that... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1846 - 1042 pages
...alone, the destroyer — the divider — the grave of happiness ! -\h me ! I have lived to " praise the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive !" to look on this world, as death and darkness, and the grave, as light and life — the haven of... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1847 - 624 pages
...for fear of those things that are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." " Wherefore, I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive "—for they are taken away from the evil to come. The Beloved One hath been visiting His garden to... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pages
...perpetuate. It will be remembered that the first lesson for the evening of that day is Eccles. iv. " I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive." Q. How is this fulfilled as on this day ? AS Stephen dead is more glorious than his persecutors yet... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Future punishment - 1847 - 582 pages
...happiness, but because of every kind of happiness which the Christian at present knows. "We praise the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive." And the glory of all consists in the beatific vision of Deity. This is sublimely expressed : " That... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1876 - 706 pages
...in a short time fulfilled a bug time." There is another passage which should not be omitted : — " Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
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So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised... 
