...servants of God, from the profane multitude. Wo is me, my mother, gays Jeremiah, that thou hast born me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth. (Jer. xv. 10.) And of all the Prophets, says not our Saviour, handling this same argument in...

...both in house and city, over the whole earth. This is that which the sad prophet Jeremiah laments : 'Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and contention !' And altho' divine inspiration must certainly have been sweet to those ancient prophets,...

...servants of God, from the profane multitude. Wo is me, my Mother, says Jeremiah, that than hast born me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth. Jer. xv. 10. And of all the Prophets, says not our Saviour, handling this same argument in his...

...native asperity of temper made the work of threatening agreeable to him. Witness his exclamation—" Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife, and a man of contention, to the whole earth!" 27 That his disposition was timid and mistrustful, much more than pugnacious, is evident; and,...

...in house and city over the whole earth. This is that which the sad prophet Jeremiah laments ; ' Wo is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and contention ! ' And although divine inspiration must certainly have been sweet to those ancient prophets,...

...reproof and denunciation. No wonder that, weary of the incessant struggle, the prophet should cry out, " Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury, yet every one of them doth curse...

...though I have peculiar reasons to lament it; though I have many a time said, with the prophet, ' Wo is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife ! ' and though I love old attachments and old friends ; I may not consult considerations of this sort, at the...

...land of the living, that his name may no more be remembered." " Woe is me," he complains (15: 10), "my mother, that thou hast borne me, a man of strife and of contention to the whole earth. O Lord, thou knowest ; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of...

...house and city, over the whole earth. " This is that which the sad prophet Jeremiah laments:—' Wo is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me, a man of strife and contention !' And, although divine inspiration must certainly have been sweet to those ancient prophets,...

...without the help of the figure XO.T avr<<fipa.o-\v be admitted for true, that Jeremy of Jerusalem was a man of strife, and a man of contention, to the whole earth, as well as " that Ishmael of Coleman-street," and yet was a true Prophet, and never the less...