But whereunto shall I liken this generation ? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. The Eclectic Review - Página 233editado por - 1833Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1817 - 680 páginas
...what are they like ? They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, ' We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced : we have 33 mourned unto you, and ye have not wept.' For John the Baptist hath conie neither eating bread, nor... | |
| Adam Clarke - 1817 - 726 páginas
...d Elias, which was for to come. 15 e He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 16 4[ fBut wheretmto shall I liken this generation ? It is like unto children sitting in Verse 11. A greater than John the Baplisi] A sixth excellency of the Baptist; he was greater than any... | |
| Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 páginas
...Husbandmen, and the Marriage Supper. It is intimated also in those remarkable words ; " We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced : we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented ;" as if he had said — ' Neither the calls of mercy, nor the denunciations... | |
| Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 páginas
...Calmet'.i Commentary. f * The words of our Saviour, to illustrate this, are these,—" We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented," Matth. xi. 17. which seem to be a proverb founded upon a custom among the... | |
| John Miller - 1819 - 280 páginas
...voice of the Son of man is heard, exclaiming ; Whereunto shall I liken this gene- Matt. xi. ration 9 It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and...and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. Or again : O Jerusalem, Jerusa- Luke xiii. • 34v lem, which killest the... | |
| 1823 - 408 páginas
...of all the apparatus of Missions — and still men are not pleased. What, then, do they want ? " But whereunto shall I liken this generation ? It is like...and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented." It is difficult to please people who are determined to dissent, or to convince... | |
| John Jebb - 1820 - 502 páginas
...this generation ? It is like children sitting in the market-place; And calling to their companions and saying: We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; We have sung dirges unto you, and ye have not smote the breast: For John came, neither eating nor drinking;... | |
| Henry Kollock - 1822 - 544 páginas
...beautiful variety in the dispensations of providence, and in the mode of announcing divine truths. " Whereunto shall I liken this generation ? It is like...sitting in the markets and calling unto their fellows. We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced: we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.... | |
| 1850 - 698 páginas
...love God," — they are " like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not wept." U , M. MACBRAIR. A TURKISH TEACHER. JAN. 19TH. — I had a long and very interesting... | |
| 1877 - 1006 páginas
...well as edifying, profitable as well as pleasing ; that we may not have to complain, ' We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.' But, after all, our periodical literature can never be successful unless... | |
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