 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1831 - 372 pages
...person to be relieved from distress. Or our Lord may have adverted to this admonition of Solomon, " If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat ; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink.'' § In that comprehensive summary of relative and social duty, "... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...and His glory, I have not sinned." a Thirdly, the original precept stands in the Book of Proverbs. " If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat ; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink : for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall... | |
 | Eli Meeker - 1832 - 182 pages
...that hath pity on the poor, lendeth to the Lord ; that which he hath given, will he pay him again. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat ; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of the Lord, than to... | |
 | 1832 - 510 pages
...this ought to be so understood is farther manifest from the words of Solomon above referred to : — ' If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat ; and if he be thirsty give him water to drink : for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...redeeming the time, because the days are evil."] DCCCIX. RETURNING GOOD FOR EVIL. Prov. xxv. 21, 22. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat ; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink : for thou shalt heap coah of fire upon his head; and the Lord shall... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...my friend or brother : I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. Pi. xxxv. 13, 14. ht him Î The officers * ? But this people who knoweth not thirsty, give him water to drink ; for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head : and the Lord shall... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: 7 Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him. 8. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: 9 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1833 - 100 pages
...not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me : I will render to the man according to his work." " If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat ; and if he he thirsty, give him water to drink : for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord... | |
 | Jean Frédéric Ostervald - 1833 - 434 pages
...afflicted. He exhorts us to return good for evil, in those words which St. Paul quotes, Rom. xii. If thy enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat ; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink ; for thou shalt heap coals of jure upon his head; that is, by this... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1835 - 600 pages
...doing thou shall heap coals of fire upon his head. This whole verse is taken from Prov. 25: 21, 22, "If thine enemy be hungry give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall... | |
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If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee. 
