| Andrew John Jukes - Bible - 1848 - 266 pages
...will demand our lives just in measure as we walk with Him. " For love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave ; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame."} And in these days when pious worldliness is so successfully misusing the truth of God — when, in... | |
| John Westwood (of Huntingdon.) - 1848 - 72 pages
...me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm ; for love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Settlements of a binding nature amongst men are confirmed by a seal, as a testimony of the covenant... | |
| William A. Ross - Scandinavia - 1848 - 384 pages
...me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm : for Love is strong as death ; Jealousy is cruel as the grave : the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench Love, neither can the floods drown it : if a man would give all the substance... | |
| Thomas Adams - Bible - 1848 - 912 pages
...22. " When his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that trust in him," Psal. ii. 12. "The coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame," Cnnt. viii. 6. Wild-fire may be tamed, streams of fire have been quenched; only that fire can never... | |
| Samuel Eyles Pierce - Bible - 1848 - 174 pages
...me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine, arm ; for love is strong as death, jealously is cruel as the grave, the coals thereof are coals of fire, which have a most vehement flame." The church is ever in the eye and heart and thoughts of Christ: Christ... | |
| Baptists - 1849 - 510 pages
...as it should be, naked, abstract Jealousy is our theme. — Solomon pours bitter epithets upon it. " Cruel as the grave, the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame." When this spirit seizes the heart, the glory of virtue, the sanctity of holiness, or the value of life... | |
| Philip Wood - 1849 - 348 pages
...Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thy arm : for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame" Natural fire or heat constitutes natural and animal life, which corresponds by analogy to spiritual... | |
| Hermann Olshausen - Bible - 1849 - 456 pages
...express the same idea, first negatively and then positively. They both describe the nature of lovo — " The coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. " (Cantío, viii. C.) lu addition to many earlier commentators and critics, some of the moderns, especially... | |
| Robert Milman (bp. of Calcutta.) - Confirmation - 1850 - 44 pages
...what thou needest, this is what thou criest for : for love is strong as death, jealousy cruel [hard] as the grave ; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame : many waters cannot quench it, neither can the floods drown it. Consider, therefore, and understand.... | |
| Henry Hammond - 1850 - 340 pages
..." Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a vehement flame." She had before often lost her beloved, which made her so fiercely fasten on him, for... | |
| |