| Thomas Cogan - Christianity - 1813 - 528 pages
...anticipating the future, as if the event had already taken place, declares, " the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light : they that dwell...in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."f' " The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the... | |
| Missions - 1843 - 752 pages
...but, numbers of our villages resound with the sound of the gospel trumpet: " the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light : they that dwell...in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light nhined." We can look over them with feelings of holy triumph, and clasping our hands, cry... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light : they that dwell...shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy : they joy before thee according to the... | |
| Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1815 - 644 pages
...them, so that he comforts Ihem with the promise and prospect of it. Ver> 2. " The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell...shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined," The evangelist shews the accomplishment of this by our Lord's going to, and dwelling at Capernaum,... | |
| Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...the prophecy Ts. ix. 2. " The people that walketh in " darkness (alluding to the people of " Galilee) have seen a great light ; they " that dwell in the...shadow " of death, upon them hath the light " shined." As the beginning of Is. ix. i« not very clear in our translation, and as Bishop Lowth haa done away... | |
| William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1816 - 436 pages
...Isaiah, speaking of his coming, saith, The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined, Isa. ix. 2. For that this was spoken of Christ, we have the authority of the Evangelist, Matt. iv.... | |
| Henry Hunter - Bible - 1818 - 376 pages
...when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zabulon, and the land of Naphthalim, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the...shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." And what saith the history? " Leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea-coast,... | |
| Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...afflict her by the way of the sea, beyona Jordan, in Galilee oi the nations. 2 The people that walked a» wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised...the chastisement of our peace MI upon him ; and wi 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy : they joy be fore thee according to the... | |
| Thomas Paine - Political science - 1819 - 758 pages
...off on a credulous world as a prophecy. I proceed to the next verse. Ver. 2. " The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light : they that dwell...shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." All this is historical, aud not in the least prophetical. The whole is in the prefer tense; it speaks... | |
| 1830 - 890 pages
...religion, to the morals, and the character of the country. A SERMON. ISAIAH ix. 2. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light ; they that dwell...in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light sinned. IT is a remarkable feature in the writings of the prophet Isaiah, that his predictions,... | |
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