...— " Oh, Thou! whose bowels of compassion yearned over Jerusalem, as in that tender lamentation, ' How often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings,' — let an afflicted, defenceless one, who ever in trouble flies to thee,...

...The Saviour has not been compelled to say of this individual, as He said of impenitent Jerusalem, " How often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not I" There has been in this case a yielding to the admonition...

...day of life. It was so with THE REPEATED INVITATIONS OP THE GOSPEL. 383 Jerusalem : " O Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens, but ye would not. O Jerusalem, that thou hadst known the day, even this the day of thy visitation...

...cried, " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee ; how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, but ye would not !" " O that thou hadst known, even thou at least in this thy...

...— " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not." So that it is intended we should here understand, that...

...— " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not." So that it is intended we should here understand, that...

...the sea." In the same strain does our Lord address himself to Jerusalem : " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not !" Nay, at another time, beholding the city, now devoted...

...when, on Mount Olivet, he beheld the city, and wept over it, and said, " 0 Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! how often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not !" Whose patriotism ever endured what his did — toils,...

...when, on Mount Olivet, he beheld the city, and wept over it, and said, " O Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! how often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not !" Whose patriotism ever endured what his did — toils,...

..."U1, DAGAN. Gathering together, or sitting on chickens. MATT. xxni. 3. — " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often •would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings. IT is the opinion of some highly respectable Hebrew scholars, that these...