 | 1849 - 898 Seiten
...carnal professors as I have been treating of; hence he says, "I will stand upon my watch, and set mo upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will...unto me and what I shall answer when I am reproved." (Hab. ii. 1.) The prophet was no stranger to his own heart. He was well taught to feel how bent to... | |
 | 1849 - 780 Seiten
...we ask God for a blessing, we should afterwards watch for its descent. Thus Habakkuk says, (ii. 1,) . — The whole cautions us against soul-carelessness. Ihe lapses of the christian have occurred in the... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1850 - 456 Seiten
...heaven-fearing patriots and loyal churchmen may yet be found, who imitate the perplexed seer of old : " I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,...unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved." (Habakkuk, ii. 1.) Here is at once a remedy for nations, and a rest for souls, — even those beams... | |
 | 1850 - 632 Seiten
...upon the tower, and will watca to see what he will вл\ unto nie, and what 1 will answer when I ani reproved. And the Lord answered me and said. Write...plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." What means all this, say re? That 1», Minister, take this message ю the people from me tell them... | |
 | Mystery - 1850 - 464 Seiten
...another figure, still descriptive of the kind of message to be delivered, and its design and effect. "And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision,...plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." (Hab. ii. 2.) This is descriptive of the distinctness and clearness of what will be revealed and declared.... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1851 - 472 Seiten
...fat, and their meat plenteous. Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to sJay the nations ? I will stand upon my watch, and set...unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved (marg. when I am argued with). And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision, and make it plain... | |
 | John Owen - 1851 - 530 Seiten
...of the church, in the approaches of this distressing, calamitous season. Why, saith he, verse 1, " I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,...unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved." — "God will reprove me; there will be great arguings between God and my soul : I know my own guilt... | |
 | 1851 - 514 Seiten
...The prophet gets into God's presence and mark how, with self-judgment and lowliness and watching, " I will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower and will watch to see what He will say to me, and what I shall answer, when I am reproved. And the Lord answered me." And what a truth does... | |
 | John Wroe - 1852 - 406 Seiten
...that his body perish not, but that he receive the immortal life of his natural body. Question. — " I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,...me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And tbe Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that... | |
 | Harriet Rebecca King - 1852 - 332 Seiten
...Jacob did, we should endeavour to arise, in the spirit of the prophet Habakkuk, and to say, with him, " I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,...unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved." (Hab. ii. 1.) CHAPTER XXXIX. Q. Verses 1—4, and 20—23.—With what assurance of the Psalmist do... | |
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For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 
