| Charles Hodge - 1835 - 600 pages
...passage in Micah 3: 11, " The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, the prophets thereof divine for money ; yet will they...upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? None evil can come upon us." This is precisely the spirit which Paul reproves, a reliance on external... | |
| John Harris - 1836 - 348 pages
...turned the priests and ministers of God into mercenary hirelings; "The heads of Zion judge for reward, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will...upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us." In the department of trade, this sin induces the buyer to depreciate the... | |
| 1838 - 900 pages
..."blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach ins, (he said unto the sick ef It I Chap. 1. 1L » Heb./ran n ouion. > Hcb./rom divinixg. « Heb. vpper lip. »Ezek.ag.97. Zeph.3.3.... | |
| 1837 - 226 pages
...none evil can come upon us. te sD The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money...lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us ? none evil can come upon us thereof MY heavenly Father, I confess, That all thy ways are just, Although... | |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 288 pages
...Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel," who "judge for reward ;" and " the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money...lean upon the Lord, and say Is not the Lord among . js." Judas was one of the apostles, a miserly and unprincipled miscreant: and our Saviour speaks... | |
| John Howie - 1839 - 606 pages
...Jerusalem with iniquity.' Ver. 11. ' The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money...will they lean upon the Lord, and say Is not the Lord amongst us ; no evil can come upon us.' Ver. 1 2. ' Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as... | |
| John Wilson - 1840 - 378 pages
...Zion, it is said, ch. iii. 11, " The heads thereof judge for reward; and the priests thereof teach for hire ; and the prophets thereof divine for money;...upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? None evil can come upon us." And equally has the word been fulfilled upon her: " Therefore shall Zion... | |
| Amelia Bristow - 1840 - 318 pages
...house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity." " The heads thereof judge for reward, and the Prophets thereof divine for money ; yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say,—Is not the Lord among us ?" MrcAH iii. 9, 11. The approaching confirmation of her eldest son,... | |
| Thomas Thomas - 1841 - 32 pages
...and as flesh within the caldron." " The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money...upon -the Lord, and say, " Is not the Lord among us \ " " Woe unto them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria; ye that put far... | |
| Edwin Sandys - 1841 - 540 pages
...complaineth so grievously by his prophets: "The Mic.in.[ii.i priests teach for hire, the prophets prophesy for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord and say, Is not the Lord among us f And again: " These shepherds cannot isai- •«. understand: they all look to their own way," every... | |
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