 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 288 pages
...the power of God in all that has happened. To his threat of vengeance, the poor animal replied ; " Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever...unto this day ? was I ever wont to do so unto thee ?" This latter inquiry ought to have set him a thinking on the strangeness of her conduct, and what... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1834 - 442 pages
...expostulation : " What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? Am I not thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden, ever since...unto this day ? Was I ever wont to do so unto thee?" The ferocity of conduct, far less justifiable than that of Balaam, which is daily occurring in this... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 682 pages
...excuse for his conduct: — " What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times ? Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden, ever since I was thine, unto this day ? and was I ever wont to do so unto thee ?" (Numbers, xxii. 30.) The ass was honoured by bearing upon... | |
 | 1836 - 710 pages
...me these three times ? 29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me : I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee. 'Jo.h.84.9. 'Heb.«y«. 8 Hub. 1 shall prevail in fighting against him. ' 2 ret, !l. 16. Judell. «... | |
 | Sarah Hall - 1837 - 376 pages
...but she persisted in refusing. At length she opened her mouth and spoke : — am not I thine ass on which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day ; was I ever wont to do so unto thee?" At that moment the eyes of the prophet were opened, and he saw " the angel of the Lord," standing in... | |
 | William Willcocks Sleigh - 1837 - 454 pages
...answered her as a familiar acquaintance — " Because thou hast mocked me these three times; I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee;" ver. 26-29. The eyes of Balaam were on this opened, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the... | |
 | 1841 - 884 pages
...the reply ? The lesson is a wholesome one, and its application is only too evident : " I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee." " And the ass said unto Balaam, Am I not thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day ? Was I ever wont... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...hast mocked me : I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill SO thee. And thcasssaid He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, / mas thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto 31 thee? And he said. Nay. Then the LOHD opened... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 288 pages
...smitten me these three times?" " Because thou hast mocked me," was the reply of Balaam, " I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee." He is tried again. It appears, that to a perverse obstinacy in wickedlj striving after wealth and distinction,... | |
 | Food - 1839 - 370 pages
...go the way I wished you to go ; and if I had a sword in my hand I would kill thee. And the ass said, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since you have had me, and did I ever hurt you ? And Balaam said, No, you have never hurt me : and then God... | |
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And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day ? was I ever wont to do so unto thee ? And he said, Nay. 
