 | Great Britain - 1863 - 972 pages
...sees the Saviour extended "on the cross, his heart overflows with adoration, and he feels " this a none other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven." It has been urged this effect is produced only on the lower order of intellect ; that forms and ceremonies... | |
 | Great Britain - 1863 - 542 pages
...says, " How dreadful is this place ! Behold the Lord was in this place, and I knew it not. This is no other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven." That is the spirit of awe, — which sees a shadow of mystery cast from above even on the colour of... | |
 | Abel Stevens - Methodism - 1864 - 488 pages
...in. Look which way one would, he might behold streaming eyes, and but little could be heard except strong cries to God for mercy. It might be truly said,...Husbands and wives were inviting each other to go with them to heaven ; parents and children entreating each other. In short, those who were happy in God... | |
 | Abel Stevens - Methodism - 1864 - 486 pages
...in. Look which way one would, he might behold streaming eyes, and but little could be heard except strong cries to God for mercy. It might be truly said, ' this is none other than the house of God 1 This is the gate of heaven !' Husbands and wives were inviting each other to go with them... | |
 | John Kirk - 1864 - 448 pages
...mercy. Persons coming into such a family with a serious tincture of mind, might well cry out, 'This is none other than the house of God ! This is the gate of heaven !' Besides the ordinary and stated services of religion, occasional calls and seasons for worship were... | |
 | Leonhard Goppelt - Religion - 1982 - 292 pages
...with Jacob, but with the place where the ladder stood. Jacob said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven" (Gen 28:17; cf. v 16). The similarity to the ideas in John 7:37f. is even greater if the contemporary... | |
 | G. D. Kilpatrick - Religion - 1983 - 140 pages
...place, and I did not know it.' Then he was afraid and said, 'How fearsome is this place! This is no other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven.' Jacob rose early in the morning, took the stone on which he had laid his head, set it up as a sacred... | |
 | Christoph Barth - Religion - 1991 - 420 pages
...earth. Jacob's vision at Bethel offers a key to this duality. "How fearsome is this place! This is no other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven" (Gen. 28:17). God's house on earth is the meeting place of heaven and earth. The "name of the Lord,"... | |
 | Christopher Collins - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 216 pages
...place, and I did not know it." Then he was afraid and said, "How fearsome is this placel This is no other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven." Jacob rose early in the morning, took the stone on which he had laid his head, set it up as a sacred... | |
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How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven. 
