 | John Hildrop - Antichrist - 1713 - 336 pages
...(4.) THE Fourth Inftance fliall be that of Herody Aft. 12. haranguing the People, whereupon they cried out, That it was- the Voice of a God, and not of a Man ,• and immediately the Angel sf the Lord fmote htm, • • *' * tr -« t 5* V8 Of the PESTILENCE.... | |
 | Universal history - 1779 - 514 pages
...Here the ambafladors, prompted perhaps by fome of his court fycophants, gave a great fliout, crying out, that it was the voice of a god, and not of a man ; and pniclifed fome attitudes that favoured of adoration. The king, too fenfible of the people's... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1802 - 396 pages
...come to implore his pardon for some recent offences, upon which they exclaimed, with a great shout, that it was the voice of a god, and not of a man. A^ppa, instead of reproving, encouraged the i' ious adulation, and the anq-el of God imjfately... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 pages
...Herod, for assuming the glory to himself, when the people, in commendation of his oration, said, " That it was the voice of a god, and not of a man," Acts xii. 22. But this is mere fancy. If the princes of Judah wanted to obtain a toleration from... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1825 - 1006 pages
...therefore, when the king spoke to the Tyrians and Sidonians, the parasites around him began to say, that it was the voice of a god, and not of a man. Instead of rejecting these impious flatterers, Agrippa received them with an tar of complacency;... | |
 | John Robinson - History, Ancient - 1831 - 960 pages
...Agrippa being at Caesarea, addressed an elegant speech to the deputies of Tyre and Sidon, who exclaimed that it was the voice of a god, and not of a man ; and on his encouraging this impious adulation, he was smitten with a dreadful disease, of which... | |
 | William Allen (of Peel.) - Sermons, English - 1835 - 426 pages
...world, — the unthinking multitude, — could desire or envy. When he spoke, his flatterers cried out that " it was the voice of a God and not of a man." " And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory : and he... | |
 | Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1836 - 340 pages
....he ipy. peared atCsesarea in a pompous manner, and having made an address to the people, they cried out, " That it was the voice of a God, and not of a man." But the result soon proved that the king was mortal, for he was struck with a dreadful disease,... | |
 | Alban Butler - Fathers of the church - 1845 - 432 pages
...disgrace with him. Whilst he spoke, the ambassadors and some court sycophants gave a great shout, crying out that it was the voice of a god and not of a man. The king, too ,sensible of the people's praise, and elated with pride, seemed to forget himself,... | |
 | Richard Brudenell Exton - Bible - 1847 - 516 pages
...murderous Herod, the slavish people shouted the blasphemous sentence, when he made an oration unto them, " that it was the voice of a god, and not of a man ! " The spirituality of the hortatory portion of this sacred hymn is at once definite and decisive... | |
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Whilst he spoke, the ambassadors and some court sycophants gave a great shout, crying out that it was the voice of a god and not of a man. The king, too ,sensible of the people's praise, and elated with pride, seemed to forget himself, and to approve... 
