This is not correction, but excision. Not, however, annihilation — this would be a privilege. They shall seek death; but they shall not find it. In vain will they ask the rocks to fall on them, and the mountains to cover them. The penalty is not the... The Messenger - Page 119by Frank Frankfort Moore - 1907 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Bengo Collyer - 1813 - 448 pages
...— and the grave itself forms no shelter from the gaze of Omnipotence! In vain shall they call upon the rocks to fall on them, and the mountains to cover them: the earth and the heavens shall flee from the face of '-Him that sitteth upon the throne." '-Now is... | |
| William Jay - 1829 - 592 pages
...this would be a privilege. They shall seek death; but they shall not find it. In vain will they ask the rocks to fall on them, and the mountains to cover them. The penalty is not the loss of their being, but of their happiness and of their hope ; the destruction... | |
| Irish pulpit - 1831 - 372 pages
...opened ? In that day, the careless, the impenitent, the unbelieving, the pleasure-loving, shall call on the rocks to fall on them, and the mountains to cover them from the presence of the Lamb. But they shall call in vain ; because they have slighted his mercy,... | |
| 1839 - 498 pages
...heavens bowed beneath his feet, the earth shrinking from his presence, the guilty sons of men calling on the rocks to fall on them, and the mountains to cover them from his wrath. Fear not, brethren ; for God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world,... | |
| Hugh White - 1843 - 250 pages
...by that frown, that they are irrevocably lost for ever ! and in the phrenzy of despair, will call on the rocks to fall on them, and the mountains to cover them — for the day of the wrath of the Lamb is come, and who shall be able to stand before Him ? Yea !... | |
| 1848 - 620 pages
...from the wrath of God — from eternal woe ! Will you be among those whose cry of despair will call on the rocks to fall on them, and the mountains to cover them ? Even these will be no shelter ! Houseless for eternity ! Come, then, to our habitation ! We have... | |
| Hugh White - 1849 - 342 pages
...who have despised the love, and trampled on the blood, of the Lamb that was slain, shall call upon the rocks to fall on them, and the mountains to cover them from the face of the Lamb, for the day of His wrath is come, and who, that here rejected Him, shall... | |
| William Jay - 1856 - 688 pages
...this would be a privilege. They shall seek death; but they shall not find it. In vain will they ask the rocks to fall on them, and the mountains to cover them. The penalty is not the loss of their -being, but of their happiness and of their hope; the destruction... | |
| Henry Grey - 1858 - 430 pages
...personal, and final nature. For, if in the day of Jerusalem's judgment the despairing sufferers " called on the rocks to fall on them, and the mountains to cover them," what shall be the terror of the unbelieving and disobedient in the great day of the Lord, when Christ shall... | |
| Isaac Massey Haldeman - 1906 - 346 pages
...face that gazes upon them, its very calmness like the unclouded sun? No wonder that with one accord they shall cry unto the rocks to fall on them, and the mountains to hide them from His face, and for the dens, in their deep and clammy darkness to shut out the flaming... | |
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