 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 456 pages
...when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and PaulMercurius, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest... | |
 | William Ward - 1817 - 366 pages
...rich Hindoos have a room on the top of the house, in which they perform worship daily. Acts xiv. 11. ' The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.' Innumerable accounts are to be found in the Hindoo pooranus, of the descent of Brumha, Vishnoo, Shivu,... | |
 | 1829 - 828 pages
...wrought by St. Paul at Lystra produced no conversion : it was interpreted upon heathen principles — " the gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." In this case the apostles were necessitated to remonstrate ; yet how little their remonstrance availed,... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Christianity - 1819 - 344 pages
...phraseology, be of course a god. When Paul aud Barnabas wrought a miracle at Lystra, the people said, " The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men." They would have formed a similar opinion of Christ, had they seen or heard of him ; and where apostolic... | |
 | John Jones - Apologetics - 1820 - 238 pages
...when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men."...had been the author of this miracle, the people of Lystra would doubtless have said the same thing of him. The inhabitants of other places would certainly... | |
 | James Inglis - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 406 pages
...how different their decisions, as circumstances differ, on the'character and conduct t>f each other! "The Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men,"* said the Lycannians, full of admiration at the eloquence and miraculous powers of Paul and Barnabas.... | |
 | Johnson Grant - Great Britain - 1820 - 638 pages
...enraptured heathens who, when they heard the words of truth from the lips of inspiration, exclaimed, ' the gods are come down to us in the likeness of men ;' to him, however, the statement was inverted : the speaker seemed to have wrapped himself in the... | |
 | Henry Aldrich - 1821 - 300 pages
...religion. The Lycaonians at Lystra were guilty of a false judgment, when they said of Paul and Barnabas, The Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. So also were the Pharisees, when they said of our blessed Lord, We know that thit man is a sinner.... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Education - 1821 - 476 pages
...when he had healed the cripple by a mere word of command, the people cried out with exalted voices, " The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men;" immediately they made a Mercury of St.. Paul, they turned Barnabas into Jupiter, and the priests brought... | |
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And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men. 
