 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - Animals in literature - 1865 - 398 pages
...find a passage in the prophet Amos that distinctly alludes to this fact : — ' As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.' Amos v. 19. It is nearly certain that this is the snake which the... | |
 | English literature - 1865 - 610 pages
...whirlwind ; or rather, to express it in the Prophet's words, it will be to him 'as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned bis hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him;'* the end, we fear, of many a wearied spirit, which for... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 pages
...prophet Amos thus describes a man who, shunning one danger, falls into another: "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him," Amos v. 19. It is figuratively said that in the future times of peace... | |
 | Paul Baynes - Bible - 1866 - 430 pages
...consume them, God hath a pit, snare, fear ; as Isa. xxiv. 17, or as Amos v. 19, ' As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him ;' that is, he hath one evil in the neck of another to destroy him,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1866 - 828 pages
...whirlwind ; or rather, to express it in the Prophet's words, it will be to him " as if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him, or went into the house 18C6.J [March, and leaned his hand on tie wall, and a serpent bit him ; " * the end, we fear, of many... | |
 | Sylvanus Cobb - 1867 - 568 pages
...for rest and satisfaction, my case 4 . was as that described by the prophet, "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." My mind was exercised on these difficulties with intensive labor.... | |
 | Henry Cowles - Bible - 1867 - 458 pages
...they shall feel his presence and be made fearfully conscious of his wrath. 19. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20. Shall not the day of the LOED be darkness, and not light ? even... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 482 pages
...yourselves the day of judgment, but only to clear merry with it ! — Caryl. " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. w Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light ? even... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1879 - 672 pages
...entangled ; they shuffle themselves from under one calamity and fall into another, as if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand upon the wall auda serpent bit him (Amos v. 19). Oh, remove this one plague, saith Pharaoh ; if he... | |
 | Sylvanus Cobb - 1867 - 566 pages
...rest and satisfaction, my case was as that described by the prophet, " As if a man did flee from n lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house and leaned his hantf on the wall, and a serpent bit him." My mind was exercised on these difficulties with intensive... | |
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Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit... 
