| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...doun contented with the event i 19 this may be very useful still, if not superstitiausly performed. A. brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city : and [their] contentions [are] like the bars of a castle : the nearness of the relation heightens... | |
| 1807 - 474 pages
...much as divisions do, so, when once they are made, there is nothing more hard to be composed again. A Brother offended, is harder to be won, than a strong City; and their, contentions are like the barrs of a Castle*. For as no bond is so strong, as that of Religion... | |
| William Oldys, John Malham - Great Britain - 1810 - 600 pages
...world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.' And the wise-man seems to give the reason, saying, A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and their contentions like the bars of a castle. Yet, htirresco referent, these presbyterians, like... | |
| William Oldys, John Malham - Great Britain - 1810 - 574 pages
...world standeth, lest I make my brother ts offend.' And the wise-man seems to give the reason, saying, A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and their contentions like the bars of a castle. Yet, horresco referens, these presbyterians, like... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pages
...soul, Isaiah lix. 2 ; a contention with him seems to fasten the bar of infidelity; as it is written, " A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle," Prov. xviii. 19. If a contention with Christ... | |
| William Bengo Collyer - Bible - 1813 - 448 pages
...extent of the mischief which his partiality had effected; and as little did he appear to understand that "a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city!" Behold, this lad in whom all his father's affections centre, setting out from the vale of Hebron! Already... | |
| Augustin Calmet - Bible - 1814 - 636 pages
...this there may be something more in the emphasis of the following passage than has been remarked. " A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle," not merely hard to be removed on account of their... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...cometh and searcheth him. 18 The lot cause th contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty. 19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city : and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. 20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the... | |
| Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...father or his mother, and . saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren.... | |
| 1824 - 452 pages
...engage us heartily to exercise this virtue, and are too frequently reminded of the wise man's saying, " a brother offended, is harder to be won than a strong city." The causes of this are, the natural backwardness of the offender to make a candid and ingenuous confession... | |
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