 | William Blacker - 1836 - 338 pages
...unappropriated, for he gives Lot, when they are about to separate, his choice which course fee would steer. " Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself,...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." (Gen. xiii. 9.) But sometime after we find positive proof of the land being considered private property,... | |
 | 1836 - 710 pages
...strife, I pray thcc, between me and thec, and between my herdmen and thy herdmcn; for we be 'brethren. 9 ommand thee this thing to day. 10 And the left. 10 ^ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered... | |
 | William Thistlethwaite - 1837 - 982 pages
...herdmen and thy herdmen : for we be brethren." Then he makes the most open and generous proposal. " Is not the whole land before thee ? Separate thyself,...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." Abraham might have laid a stress upon his authority, as the elder and the principal ; he might have... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...contention Abraham thus endeavoured to compose : " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me. Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself,...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." This plainly implies an acknowledged right, in either, to occupy whatever ground he pleased, that was... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...the land. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thcc, between me and thee, and 9 LXXIX. A Psalm 4 of Asaph. 1 О GOD, the heathen are...meat unto the fowls of the heaven, The flesh of thy s 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1838 - 910 pages
...contention Abraham thus endeavoured to compose : " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me. Is not the whole land before thee ? Separate thyself,...right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then 1 will go to the left." This plainly implies an acknowledged right, in either, to occupy whatever ground... | |
 | 1839 - 610 pages
...it became needful that thev should separate: " And Abraham said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, 1 pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." How admirable is the affection of Moses towards the Israelites, and the disinterestedness with which... | |
 | Robert Pedder Buddicom - 1839 - 1038 pages
...was convenient, yet for love's iake, he rather besought him.1 " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between my herdmen, and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren....depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." Full richly did the Spirit of God dwell in this disciple, enabling him to exhibit that quietude and... | |
 | Henry Edward J. Howard (hon.) - 1840 - 340 pages
...to a preference, and said to his nephew, " Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee, for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left."* God looked with approbation upon this rare want of selfishness, and immediately rewarded it, by a renewal... | |
 | 1858 - 498 pages
...light in them." What true greatness of soul, and what noble liberality are seen in Abraham of old. " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." With a lustre no less brightly and beautifully does this generous spirit shine in the large hearted... | |
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And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand,... 
