 | Practical sermons - 1846 - 488 pages
...under a juniper tree, and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathersf." Moses and Elias were among the best and most true servants of GOD under the old dispensation;... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1846 - 504 pages
...juniper-tree, and, as weary of life no less than of his way, wishes to rise no more : " It is enough, now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers." Oh strange and uncouth mutation ! what is this we hear ? Elijah fainting and giving up !... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1847 - 538 pages
...solitude of the wilderness, where, casting himself upon the ground, lie exclaims, " It is enough ; now, О Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my lathers." Such were the human feelings contending for the empire of his mind, that he was> almost weary of the... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1846 - 1170 pages
...tree : and he '' °°6' c requested ' for himself that he might die : and said, It is enough ; now, O LORD, take away my life ; for I am not better than my fathers. 'Heb. far hu lift. reason in the world to depend upon God's protection while he was doing... | |
 | Richard Arthur Francis Barrett - 1847 - 516 pages
...he requested for himself [Heb., for his life] that he might die ; and said, It is enough ; now, О LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. A juniper-tree. Gesen. — cni m. l Kings xix. 4, (but fem.inCheth.)plur. own, 1 Kingsxix.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1847 - 468 pages
...have died. " When Elijah courted death under the juniper tree in the wilderness, and ' said — now Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers/ that request shews that he was not educated in this faith of translation, but 19 attained... | |
 | William Abiah Newman - 1848 - 318 pages
...from Egypt—of Elijah dispirited, sinking beneath the juniper tree, despairing, and imploring "Now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers," because, as he imagined, he and he only was left, and they sought his life to take it away—of... | |
 | Nathan Marcus Adler - 1848 - 784 pages
...defenceless, I know not how to relieve myself; and then I request that I may die! It is enough, now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my father?! But in the greatest difficulties, there is some hope still left; and the darkest hour of the... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1849 - 702 pages
...under a juniper-tree, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, " It is enough : now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers." And we may be sure that the Apostle Paul was the subject of perplexity when he thus expressed... | |
 | Francis Storr - 1849 - 302 pages
...hath fled at the threatening of Jezebel, and casing himself down in the wilderness, exclaims, " Now, Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers." Such is man — at his best estate, in himself weak, changeable, ungrateful. . . . And what... | |
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But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. 
