 | Edward Monro - 1858 - 510 pages
...propose a conference with him — minded, as he tells us, to do him a mischief, he says to them, " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease, while I leave it and come down to you ?" And when the people requested him to flee to save his life, he said, " Should such a man as I flee... | |
 | Mrs. Annie Webb - 1865 - 152 pages
...my horsemen shall be ready to attend you. And say to Sanballat and the other chiefs ; ' Thus saith Nehemiah, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot...the work cease while I leave it and come down to you ? ' Then come back to me, and tell me their reply." A TALE OP THE CAPTIVITY. Then the Governor continued... | |
 | Round robin - 1865 - 592 pages
...my horsemen shall be ready to attend you. And say to Sanballat and the other chiefs ; ' Thus saith Nehemiah, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot...the work cease while I leave it and come down to you ? ' Then come back to me, and tell me their reply." Joab saluted the Governor respectfully, and retired... | |
 | George Peck - 1865 - 316 pages
...concessions. Come down " to one of the villages in the plain of Ono." O no, answered the pertinacious old Nehemiah. "I am doing a great work so that I cannot...the work cease while I leave it and come down to you V The great work in which the government is engaged is that of subduing the rebellion and of restoring... | |
 | Thomas G. Beharrell - 1867 - 516 pages
...come. The work^ in which he was engaged was a great work, and he could not think of letting it stop. "Why should the work cease, while I leave it and come down to .you?" When Sanballat .and Geshem found they could not succeed in getting Nehemiah to a conference with them... | |
 | 1868 - 598 pages
...great work," answers he, when the messengers of mischief arrive, " so that I cannot come down. Wiiy should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?" Here is his safety, here his success, though labouring, as it were, in the trenches of the battle-field,... | |
 | Mrs. Webb-Peploe (Annie) - 1869 - 158 pages
...of my horsemen shall be ready to attend you. And say to Sanballat and the other chiefs: " Thus saith Nehemiah, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot...the work cease while I leave it and come down to you ? Then come back to me, and tell me their reply." Joab saluted the governor respectfully, and retired... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1871 - 664 pages
...learned to suspect the hollow favours of an enemy, and to return them with safe and just excuses : " I cannot come down : why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you ?" I do not hear him say, You intend mischief to me, I will not come forth to you, though this were... | |
 | Nehemiah - 1874 - 136 pages
...persistence of one who will not turn aside from a worthy undertaking without a sufficient reason. " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down....work cease while I leave it and come down to you?" But they are not disheartened by a first refusal. " If he will not come for once asking, we will try... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1874 - 418 pages
...let us reply, " Life is too short for the work I have on hand. I am doing a great work, and I can not come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you ?" But we may learn also, from the bearing of Mephibosheth, how to be meek under a false accusation.... | |
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I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down ; why should the work cease, while I leave it and come down to you ? ' 4And they sent to me in this way four times, and I gave them the same answer. 
