 | 1884 - 888 pages
...extreme west of Spain, would exactly embrace the whole land of the world ; for was it not written, " This is Jerusalem : I have set it in the midst of the nations round about ; " and " God is King of old. working salvation in the middle of the earth " Î So map-making... | |
 | 1917 - 644 pages
...wrought salvation "in the midst of the earth" (Ps. Ixxiv. 12); and according to Ezekiel (v. 5) : " Thus saith the Lord God, This is Jerusalem : I have...the nations and countries that are round about her." So in the maps of the Christian topographers Jerusalem occupied the centre, with the chief divisions... | |
 | Joseph Wild - 1886 - 364 pages
...so we understand Ezekiel, in the fifth chapter, fifth verse, when he says : " Thus saith the Lord, this is Jerusalem. I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her." He means to say that it has been set in the centre of the earth. So that it is in the centre of the... | |
 | Edward Porter Humphrey - 1888 - 564 pages
...shall not be numbered among the nations" (Num. xxiii. 9). A thousand years afterward, Ezekiel wrote, " Thus saith the Lord God : This is Jerusalem, I have...the nations and countries that are round about her " (Ezek. v. 5). Secondly, Canaan was well adapted, by its soil, climate, and productions, to the purposes... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1888 - 538 pages
...unoccupied, marks what was anciently believed to be "the centre of the world; " for has not Ezekiel said, " This is Jerusalem ; I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries, that are round about her"?1 Garlands of lamps, gilded thrones for the Bishop and Patriarch, and the lofty screen, towering... | |
 | David Gilkison Watt - 1890 - 538 pages
...Thus saith the Lord God ; This Jerusalem " — it is unnecessary to supply is — "I have set it" her, "in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her." It has been common for nations, whose means of locomotion are neither convenient nor rapid, to consider... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1906 - 838 pages
...centre of the world, and here again the mediaeval geographers relied on the letter of Biblical text. " This is Jerusalem ; I have set it in the midst of the nations round about her," was the text, and to the ordinary person the meaning seems simple and plain enough... | |
 | Andrew Bruce Davidson - 1892 - 448 pages
...come forth into all the house of Israel. Thus saith the Lord GOD ; This is Jerusalem : I have set 5 it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. And she hath changed my judgments into 6 wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more 4.... | |
 | 1892 - 672 pages
..."Thus saith the Lord Ood; This Jerusalem " — it is unnecessary to supply w — "I have set it" her, "in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her." It has been common for nations, whose means of locomotion are neither convenient nor rapid, to consider... | |
 | William Warren Vernon - 1894 - 718 pages
...situated in the very middle of our hemisphere. " Gia era il Sole al1' orizzonte giunto, In Ezekicl (v, 5) we read: "Thus saith the Lord God, This is...to in the following passages : — " E se' or sotto I' emisperio giunto Ch' è contrapposto a quel che la gran secca Coperchia, e sotto il cui colmo consunto... | |
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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. 
