| Theology - 1856 - 542 pages
...into Sheol, and the earth closed upon them." Its depth is contrasted with the height of the sky. " Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall mine hand...climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down." It is the destination of all ; for though the Hebrews believed in a world of glory above the solid... | |
| Methodist Church - 1899 - 1046 pages
...in chap, ix, 2-4, where we read: "Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall mine hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence." It is... | |
| Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - Bible - 1900 - 840 pages
...: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall mine hand...climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down : and though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence ; and... | |
| Gaston Maspero - Babylonia - 1900 - 860 pages
...there shall not one of them escape. Though they dig into hell, thence shall Mine hand take them ; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence ; and... | |
| William M. Campbell - Salvation - 1903 - 230 pages
...your fellowmen, what will it avail, when you have to do with him who says : "Though they dig into hell thence shall mine hand take them ; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence ; and... | |
| Joseph Estlin Carpenter - Bible - 1903 - 540 pages
...into Sheol, thence shall mine hand take them,' threatens Amos, announcing the intent of Yahweh ; ' and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.' To the believing people these are the symbols, not of doom, but of happy trust, ' If I ascend up into... | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg - 1905 - 428 pages
...secretly and to see what they are doing. In Amos : Though they dig through into hell, thence shall My hand take them ; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I cast them down (ix. 2). To dig through into hell is to hide themselves there, thus in falsities from... | |
| 1906 - 284 pages
...Prov. 15, 24: "The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from sheol beneath." Amos 9, 2: "Though they dig into sheol, thence shall mine hand...climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down." To render sheol by "grave" in these passages would not only be manifest bathos, but as regards the... | |
| William Leonard Courtney - Bible - 1908 - 440 pages
...shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not bo delivered. Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them ; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down : and though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence ; and... | |
| William Leonard Courtney - Bible - 1908 - 458 pages
...shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them ; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down : and though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence ; and... | |
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