 | Henry Montagu Butler - 1861 - Страниц: 484
...fleeing unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord ; or again complaining, " Take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live." All these seem to be instances of human faint-heartedness on the part of God's messengers, arising... | |
 | John Howe - 1862 - Страниц: 520
...impresses such a sense, and utters itself in such language as that, " Now, 0 Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live;"1 or that, "My soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than life :"2 makes men "long for death,... | |
 | Revelation - 1863 - Страниц: 828
...Jonah, in the fourth dispensation, is precisely one with Jacob's : " O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city " — as I have said, in... | |
 | Hieremias Drexelius - 1863 - Страниц: 476
...then, that nothing was left but to pray to God, — " Therefore now, O Lord, take, I befeech Thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than to live." (Chap. iv. 3.) It may be better for you, Jonah, but perhaps not fo pleafing to God. But your... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1863 - Страниц: 658
...glorious God : be not afraid to be happy ; but say, out of faith, that which Jonah said in anger, It is better for me to die than to live, Jonah iv. 3. SECT. XIV. — The happy aduantages of death. "I am afraid to die:" this is the voice of nature: but... | |
 | Christian seasons - 1864 - Страниц: 592
...and of great kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil. Therefore now, 0 Lord, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live." There is undoubtedly some strange mystery involved in this account. He perhaps dreaded the effect... | |
 | William Swan Plumer - 1864 - Страниц: 648
...undesirable. The prophet sent to warn Nineveh was in such a frame. "Now, 0 LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than to live. ... I do well to be angry even unto death." Jonah iv. 3, 9. How much more befitting was the language... | |
 | William Swan Plumer - 1864 - Страниц: 678
...undesirable. The prophet sent to warn Nineveh was in such a frame. "Now, 0 LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than to live. ... I do well to be angry even unto death." Jonah iv. 3, 9. How much more befitting was the language... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1865 - Страниц: 538
...and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3 Therefore now, 0 LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry ? [See 9, 171, 272, 700.] 25. Backsliders insensible... | |
 | Henry Jennings (of Reading.) - 1865 - Страниц: 192
...it ; I would not live ahvay." And Jonah, under the loss of his gourd, said, " Take, I beseech thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than to live." Man is an irritable, discontented creature. The best men have need to pray for much grace, for... | |
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Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 
