 | John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 316 pages
...Bethuel thy mother's father. And Jacob," it is said, " went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there...angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of... | |
 | James Aspinall - 1854 - 320 pages
...blessing. "Jacob," we read in the sacred history, " went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there...angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 308 pages
...Bethuel thy mother's father. And Jacob," it is said, " went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there...angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of... | |
 | Benson Bailey - Preaching - 1854 - 296 pages
...xxviii, 10, to the end of the chapter. " And Jacob went up from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there...dreamed, and, behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached unto heaven," #c. IT will be known by all those who are acquainted with Scripture... | |
 | Joseph Ennemoser, Mary Botham Howitt - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT - 1854 - 528 pages
...night, because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillow, and lay down in that place to sleep. "And he dreamed,...angels of God ascending and descending on it. And behold the Lord stood above it, and said : I am the Lord, &Ci ; the land whereon thou liest, to thee... | |
 | Jonathan D. Spence - History - 1996 - 450 pages
...chapter 28, for these will have especial force to anyone among the Taiping faithful who can read or hear: And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the...angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of... | |
 | Maurice Nicoll - Philosophy - 1996 - 396 pages
...possible scale of development existing in him. It is related in Genesis that Jacob lay down in a certain place to sleep : "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder...to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." Let us take a similar example from this system. You know that Man in this system... | |
 | Amos R. Jackson - Religion - 1997 - 328 pages
...thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham. Genesis 28:1-4 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the...angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of... | |
 | Ananda K. Coomaraswamy - Art - 1997 - 298 pages
...being all that is required. The symbolism of the cosmic ladder is unmistakable. Cf. Gen. 28:12, 17-18: "He dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth,...angels of God ascending and descending on it. ... And he was afraid, and said, 'How dreadful is this place: this is none other but the house of God, and... | |
 | Gary Greenberg - Bible - 2003 - 324 pages
...fled from his brother Esau, Jacob had an unusual experience in this city. On that earlier occasion: he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there...angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of... | |
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And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth,... 
