 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1841 - 212 páginas
...and chained to any earthly object whatever. The world indeed may, yea, and will, labour to take off the soul: " What is thy Beloved more than another...here is hay and provender; stay with me this night; letus dally and make merry together a little longer. But these syren songs are sung to a deaf ear;... | |
 | 1841 - 848 páginas
...head, and feet, with those feelings which prompted the Syrian to say, as he turned his back on Jordan, "are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel." And to some instead of righteousness, Christ is a rock of offence. I never saw the... | |
 | 1896 - 324 páginas
...all-night sittings, must go somewhere to recruit. On reflection, ' - 1. 1 1 each other Why Homburg ? Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? If we must needs have most necessaries of life " made in Germany," at least let... | |
 | 1841 - 450 páginas
...and call on the name of the Lord his God,, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ?" So he drove off in his chariot in a rage.... | |
 | Benjamin Davis Winslow - 1841 - 410 páginas
...dear brethren, because you want faith in those simple means? Do you not ask with the Syrian Leper, "are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and bo clean?" Are not my inward Baptism and inward Communion... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 páginas
...are said to be such that the question of Naaman, the Syrian, is by no means to be wondered at : — " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel .'" The city abounds with mosques, many of which were formerly Christian churches.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1912 - 638 páginas
...was by a comparison of rivers that he showed his passionate pride in the glories of his own land : ' Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? ' Yet, if Jordan were as nothing in comparison with the rivers of Damascus, were... | |
 | Joseph Robinson - 1976 - 274 páginas
...and invoked the LORD his God by name, waved his hand over the place and so rid 12 me of the disease. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Can I not wash in them and be clean?' So he turned and went off 13 in a rage. But... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 páginas
...call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1984 - 1078 páginas
...Kings, chapter v., Naaman boasts extravagantly about them. That was three thousand years ago. He says: "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean?" But some of my readers have forgotten who Naaman... | |
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Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean? 
