| John East - 1841 - 266 páginas
...most precious of all metals — the standard of value, by which all earthly things are tried. " But how is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! " * My soul, naturally, is like gold thrown back into its native mine, and intermixed with the basest... | |
| Charles Adie - 1841 - 70 páginas
...where our fathers praised God is burnt up with fire, and all our pleasant things are laid waste.' 1 ' How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed. The stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.' 2 Some of you, perhaps, may... | |
| Israel - 1841 - 1130 páginas
...indeed the goodly stones of the ancient temple. And when you turn to Lamentations iv. 1, you read, " How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street." And if you turn to Psalm cii.... | |
| Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1841 - 360 páginas
..." thou art all fair, my love ! there is no spot in thee ?" Alas ! " all her beauty is departed." " How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed !" But, ere we receive this system as true, as the very system of Christ and his Apostles, we may be... | |
| Charles Spear - 1841 - 416 páginas
...only have I found, that God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions.'* 'But how is the gold become dim ! How is the most fine gold changed !'f The soul seems like gold thrown back into its native mine, and intermixed with the basest material.... | |
| Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - 1891 - 796 páginas
...More striking is the metaphor in Lamentations in which the nobles of Jerusalem are likened to gold : " How is the gold become dim : how is the most fine gold changed ! The hallowed stones are thrown down at the corners of every street. The sons of Zion, the precious... | |
| Frederick Chase - 1891 - 720 páginas
...indeed his masked batteries are the most dangerous. I wish I may not prove a true prophet in saying, ' How is the gold become dim ! How is the most fine gold changed ! ' I am afraid there is too much worldly wisdom in this charter, and that it is trusting man instead... | |
| rev. George Barlow - 1891 - 182 páginas
...in individuals or in nations. III. That moral degradation is the occasion of painful lamentation. " How is the gold become dim ! How is the most fine gold changed ! How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers " (vers. 1, 2). Even the most callous are sometimes moved... | |
| Joseph Samuel Exell, Thomas Henry Leale - 1892 - 756 páginas
...diamond which it held— a setting, alas I which soon gives cause in its putrescence for the apostrophe : How is the gold become dim ! How is the most fine gold changed ! Yet " there is hope in thine end," O Christian gold, however dimmed. There is a " resurgam " for... | |
| Christina Georgina Rossetti - 1892 - 568 páginas
...delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. " Yea, the stars are not pure in His sight." " How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. . . . They that were brought... | |
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