| Thomas Smith - 1803 - 320 pages
...consolation of Israel ; and many devout persons rejoiced in the accomplishment of Micah's prediction. — " Thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among...thousands of Judah, yet out of thee' shall he come forth unto me, that is to be ruler in< Israel, whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."... | |
| Daniel Merrill - Baptism - 1805 - 354 pages
...but a fmal! people, compared with the thoufands of Ifrael." For anfwer, we reply — Micah v. 2. ' But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee fhall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Ifrael, whofe goings forth have been from of old,... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...most contemptuou» manner, nei'ertheless they shall be destroyed, and Jerusalem shall still continue. But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little...thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel ; the Messiah shall be born there, and that shall make it famous... | |
| Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...Christ while the temple was standing'. VI. The country and town where Christ should be born. Mic. v. 2. Thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among...thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me, that is to be ruler in Israel. — Fulfilled i Matt. ii. 1 . Jesus was born in Bethlehem.... | |
| John Newton - 1808 - 624 pages
...and office of our Immanuel in the Old Testament, is to be found in the chapter preceding my text. " But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, " though thou be little...thousands of Judah, " yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is " to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been " from of old, from everlasting..... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...Jerusalem : they shall offer scornful usages to He/ekiah, king of Judah. V. 2 But thou flfth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel ; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.... | |
| John Watkins - 1809 - 454 pages
...fulfilled in the miraculous conception. The place of the Messiah's birth is declared in the prophecy of Micah, " But thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou...thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me, that is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from old, from the days of eternity."... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1809 - 412 pages
...versions have plainly Tf ad BIB and not BB». Compare Isaiah rx. 4— xiv. 4, 5, 6—sxx. 31, 32.-- ,2. But thou, Bethlehem- Ephratah, though thou be little...thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel ; whose goings forth have been from old, from everlasting. 3.... | |
| John Satchel - Christian life - 1809 - 480 pages
...shall rejoice at his birth,' Luke i. l4. The place of the Messiah's nativity was to be Bethlehem. ' But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little...thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel ; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting,'... | |
| William Christie - God - 1810 - 276 pages
...the Lord our righttousness, and the like, prove nothing more in point of argument than Micah v. 2. * But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little...thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he" come forth unto me, that is to be ruler iu Israel ; whose goings forth have been from of old from everlasting.'... | |
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