...said, " What do these feeble Jews ? Will they fortify themselves ? Will they make an end in a day ? That which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall." There the wall stands, however, while the foxes have 8 gone to their holes, and all these other great...

...was mocked, Matt. xx. 19 ; xxvii. 29, 31. Thus Tobiah mocked the poor Jews when building, saying, " If a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall," Neh. iv. 3. And thus Solomon tells us, that lie " who mocketh the poor reproachcth his Maker," Prov. xvii. 5. The...

...foes. "Will they fortify themselves ? Will they revive the stones out of the rubbish which are burnt ? Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall." Neh. iv. 2. 4. No one can fail to remember also the manner in which the Redeemer of the world was met, and the...

...exception, poor and obscure persons; and of their efforts, no doubt the Tobiah's of the day would say, "That which they build, if a fox go up he shall even break down their stone wall." (t was impossible that any could foretel, .nul probably few, even of the most sanguine, expected that...

...adversaries could not arrest the progress of the work, they began to prophesy its speedy downfall. " Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down the stone wall." And now, dear brother, I must bring this narrative to a close, by expressing our sense...

...out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned ? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. 4 Hear, O our God ; for we are despised : and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them...

...rubbish which are burnt ?" And others, like Tobiah, the Ammonite, who said upon the same occasion, "Even that which they build, if a fox go up he shall even break down their stone-wall." Nehemiah, iv, 2, 3. Intimating that even our attempt to form a society could not, or would...

...Tobiah the Ammonite tee» by him, and he said, Even that whicU The builders NÊHEMIAII. with weapon». made him king instead of his father Amaziah. 22 lie built Elath, and r 4 Hear, О our God, for wo are despised : and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them...

...of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned ? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him ; and he said, 4 Hear, 0 our God ; for we are despised : and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them...

...Will they sacrifiee ? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned V "Even that which -they build, if a fox go up, he shall even 'break down their stone wall." Strange as it may seem, men representing a Christian nation were, in the early history of the Eastern...