 | Alfred Charles Smith - 1873 - 458 pages
...centre whence the light of truth should stream forth over all lands, as the prophet Ezekiel had said, " Thus saith the Lord God, This is Jerusalem ; I have...of the nations and countries that are round about her."1 Such was its situation, that, though secluded in great degree by natural barriers, its inhabitants... | |
 | William Leonard Gage - 1873 - 576 pages
...PALESTINE. 481 tion of Palestine is remarkably bound up with its future destinies. " I have set Jerusalem in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her." In later times this passage was taken in the literal sense that Palestine, and Jerusalem especially,... | |
 | M. E. H. - 1874 - 500 pages
...fire, and burn them in the fire ; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. Thus saith the Lord GOD ; This is Jerusalem : I have...the nations and countries that are round about her. And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than... | |
 | William Kelly - 1876 - 288 pages
...and immediate, being furnished in the following words of the prophet: " Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than... | |
 | James Wareing Bardsley - 1876 - 390 pages
...in which he sojourned. We may apply to it the words long afterwards spoken by God with reference to Jerusalem : "I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her " (Ezek. v. 5). The beacon was so placed that its light was marvellously diffused. The character and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1879 - 510 pages
...somewhat remarkable. Jerusalem at least occupies a central position in midst of the inhabited world, for "thus saith the Lord God : This is Jerusalem : I have...the nations and countries that are round about her" (Ezek. v. 5). Palestine is protected on the north by the Lebanon range of mountains, the summits of... | |
 | W. Harris (Presbyterian minister.) - 1890 - 450 pages
...typical of her moral pre-eminence. She was designed, in a moral sense, to be a city set upon a hill. "I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her" (verse 5). II. — The fitness of the action of the prophet to represent the coming judgment of Jerusalem.... | |
 | 1879 - 570 pages
...shall obtain the key to this mysterious type. There it is written : " Thus saith the Lord God : This Jerusalem : I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries round about her." Our translation has it — " This is Jerusalem " — the word is being printed in... | |
 | 1880 - 414 pages
...the ark. Midrash Tillin Terumah, Kedoshim. NOTE. — In Ezek. v. 5 we read, " I have set Jerusalem in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her." On the literal interpretation of these words it was asserted that Jerusalem was the very centre of... | |
 | J B Roustaing - 1881 - 768 pages
...fled to the mountains, unconscious of the fame reserved for Zion in every future age " (Ezek. v. 5). " Thus saith the Lord God ; This is Jerusalem : I have...the nations and countries that are round about her." Jerusalem is situated on the edge of one of the highest table lands of the country. From every other... | |
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ; This is Jerusalem : I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 
