 | Anne Joseph Eusèbe Baconnière-Salverte - 1846 - 412 pages
...Blois likewise, * Moses Maimonides, More Nevochim, lib. in. cap. xxxvn. t 1 Kings, chap. xvm. v. 28. " And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances. Till the blood gushed out upon them." I Lucan. Pharsal. lib. vi. vers. 745. Stat. Thebaid,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 376 pages
...peradventure he sleepeth, and must be waked : and they cried aloud and cut themselves after their barbarous manner, with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them." Nothing can be more mis- . taken in fact, than to look upon the frantic extravagance, or the undignified... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1847 - 660 pages
...conflict with Elijah, they could not make their deaf, sleeping, or absent god hear their prayer, — ' cut themselves, after their manner, with knives and...till the blood gushed out upon them ' (1 Kings xviii. 28). The general idea which lies at the bottom of these practices of self-mortification is, that the... | |
 | Eusèbe Salverte - 1847 - 352 pages
...cap. 7. t Moses Maimonides, More Nevoclrim., lib. iii., cap. 37. i 1 Kings, chap, xviii., vers. 28. " And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them." § Lucan, Pkarsal., lib. vi., vers. 745. Stat., TTiebaid,... | |
 | Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley - 1848 - 204 pages
...talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or, peradventure, he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their...and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.- And it came to pass, when mid-day was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the... | |
 | David Everard Ford - 1848 - 134 pages
...justification. The priests of Baal were evidently sincere in their worship, or they would not have cut themselves, after their manner, with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. But they were idolaters, nevertheless ; and as such they perished. And Saul of Tarsus, in his early... | |
 | 1849 - 360 pages
...talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their...and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. And when they prophesied until the time of the offering of the ^evening sacrifice, there was neither... | |
 | rev. James Gardner - 1849 - 390 pages
...talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves, after their...and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. And it came to pass, when mid-day was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the... | |
 | John Kitto - 1849 - 444 pages
...happy sounds of the grinder's song. In ver. 28 of this chapter we read of the priests of Baal, that ' they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed forth upon them.' At a festival in honour of the goddess Kali (one of the forms of Doorga in her character... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1850 - 532 pages
...fear ; 29 For our God is a consuming fire. [See 528-9.1 ZEAL. 748. False Zeal exemplified. 1 K. 18: 28 They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner...and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. Mat. 23: 15 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one... | |
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And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after... 
