 | Joseph Williams Blakesley - 1843 - 236 pages
...had no comforter, and on the side of their oppressors there was power : but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been ; who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - 692 pages
...had no comforter : and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore, I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been ; who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - 662 pages
...had no comforter : and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. Wherefore, I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been ; who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
 | 1844 - 484 pages
...makes the condition of saints departed worse than that of the living, whereas the wise man says, " I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive," Eccl. iv. 2: the reason is, because "blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth; yea,... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1845 - 204 pages
...and disappointed in his hopes, until he imagined that " man had no pre-eminence over a beast," and "praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive," and concluded that the negative condition of the unborn was to be preferred to that of either. He was... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1846 - 228 pages
...enjoy much while they are practising their oppressions, why should ' he say, as above quoted ? — " Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive." — Whether this sort of reasoning gave my Unitarian brother any satisfaction, or not, he did not directly... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1846 - 1102 pages
...comforters ; and on the l side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 2 b , namely, 3 ° Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that... | |
 | 1846 - 792 pages
...under the sun, and the tears of such as were op'pressed, and they had no comforter," then, says he, " I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive." Chap. 4: 1,2. " AH things have I seen in the days of my vanity. There is a just man that perisheth... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1846 - 810 pages
...under the sun, and the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter," then, says he, " I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alire." Chap. 4: 1, 2. " All things have I seen in the days of my vanity. There is a just man that... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1846 - 1042 pages
...alone, the destroyer — the divider — the grave of happiness ! -\h me ! I have lived to " praise the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive !" to look on this world, as death and darkness, and the grave, as light and life — the haven of... | |
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So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised... 
