| Henry Blunt - 1839 - 360 pages
...For we read, " Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for a pillow and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it, and called the name of the place Bethel." In other words, he erected a lasting memorial to the honour... | |
| Peter Parley - Mythology - 1839 - 384 pages
...consecration ? 9. How did Moses consecrate the priests'! 10. What did Jacob anoint ? for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it, and he called the name of that place Bethel." Gen. xxviii. 18, 19. 1 1 . The more you read the Old... | |
| Thomas Williams - Sermons, American - 1839 - 178 pages
...divine appearance. " Jacob arose early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillow and set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel." He desired to have the place marked and known by all... | |
| Robert Weaver - 1840 - 234 pages
...holy dread ; and therefore he " rose up early in the morning," it is said, " and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel/' which signifies a house of God, as he afterwards explains... | |
| Milton Ward - Christian life - 1840 - 366 pages
...of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar. and poured oil upon the top of it ; and called the name of that place Bethel." The reflections suggested by this interesting and extraordinary... | |
| William Burder - Religions - 1841 - 638 pages
...Bethel. " And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it; and he called the name of that place Bethel." Gen. xxviii. 18, 19. The more we read the Old Testament,... | |
| Saint John Henry Newman - Sermons, English - 1842 - 442 pages
...less than hers in its costliness, greater in his own destitute condition, for he " took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it 1." What Jacob did as a solitary pilgrim, David as a wealthy king, Mary as a private woman, is pressed... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 772 pages
...and this is the gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher - 1842 - 402 pages
...in the morning," the history farther relates, " and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it !" This act is repeated in heightened celebration as often as a poor sinner has found in the wilderness... | |
| 1843 - 480 pages
...that in the action of the patriarch there was DEDICATION. It will be observed " he took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it :" the oil being the sign, not merely that he dedicated the pillar for the ¡impose of commemoration,... | |
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