...question, How old art thou ? The days of the years of my pilgrimage (said he) are a hundred and thirty : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and OCTOBER, 1825. have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days...

...The word was thus used by the patriarch, Jacob, when he said to Pharaoh, with pathetic simplicity, " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been ;" and Solomon observes, also, " all the days of the afflicted are evil." Farther, it is evident, that...

...For all his days are sorrows, and his travel grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night c. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been d. ; Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust; neither doth trouble spring out of the ground...

...* How old art thou ? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, k The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not )3. p^ attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers '*• hi the days...

...So Gen. xlvii. 9. Jacob expressing to Pharaoh the troubles and afflictions of his past life, saith, Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. So the Wise Man again in his book of Ecclesiastes, chap. xii. 1. Remember now thy Creator in the days...

...So Gen. xlvii. 9. Jacob expressing to Pharaoh the troubles and afflictions of his past life, saith, Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. So the Wise Man again in his book of Ecclesiastes, chap. xii. 1. Remember now thy Creator in the days...

...V. 9. " An hundred and thirty years." What a long life ! Yet how did it appear to the patriarch ? " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." So great is the difference between looking back and looking forward. What ungodly person could be assured...

...Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred...and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage....

...time is counted by days, without mention of nights. "The days of our years," ' says the Psalmist. " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been," * said Jacob, and elsewhere " ¡ill the days of my life." э Thus under the form of history the law...

...Jacob, How old art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage....