"Lev" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Lev. vii. 13 ... has created [Symbol: beta] out of [Symbol: alpha].' But why should not the reminiscence have been our Lord's? The passage appears like a quotation, or an adaptation, of some authoritative saying. He positively ...
— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon
... health."—"A minister will make a poor saviour in the day of wrath. It is not knowing a minister, or loving one, or hearing one, or having a name to live, that will save. You need to have your hand on the head of the Lamb for yourselves, Lev. 1:4. You need to have your eye on the brazen serpent for yourselves, John 3:14, 15. I fear I will need to be a swift witness against many of my people in the day of the Lord, that they looked to me, and not to Christ, when I preached to them. I always ...
— The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne • Andrew A. Bonar
... for old wives! I know that I shall not live long. My appetite is failing. Others have such hearty appetites after working. They eat a whole lot and want more. There's brother Lev, when he's tired—just keep giving him food. But I don't care if I never eat at all. My soul won't take anything. I just swallow ...
— Plays • Alexander Ostrovsky
... at Richmond, Virginia, that I was awakened by the negro porter shaking me very gently and repeating, in a pleasant, monotonous voice: "Teleg'am foh you, suh! Teleg'am foh Mistuh Gilland, suh. 'Done call you 'lev'm times sense breakfass, suh! Las' call ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... my tables pretty well, But missed on five times seven: In spelling I went to the head (The word, dear, was e-lev-en). ...
— The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII. - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People • Various
... l. vi. c. 28. * Note: It is diametrically opposed to its spirit and to its letter, see, among other passages, Deut. v. 18. 19, (God) "loveth the stranger in giving him food and raiment. Love ye, therefore, the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." Comp. Lev. xxiii. 25. Juvenal is a satirist, whose strong expressions can hardly be received as historic evidence; and he wrote after the horrible cruelties of the Romans, which, during and after the war, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... and these Hebrews bought us. We were betrayed; we were driven out of our homes; unjust wars were made upon us, to make us captives, that we might be sold. And 'the Lord's people' bought us, by his special edict (Lev. xxv. 44). Our brother-servants, unfortunate Hebrews, get released in the jubilee year, except these poor creatures who were so unfortunate as to be married in slavery, and, not being willing to be divorced, ...
— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams
... disobeyed the positive injunction of that God who has not left the time of payment optional with ourselves, but who has said—"The wages of him that is hired, shall not abide with thee all night until the morning."—Lev. 19 chap. 13th verse. ...
— Friends and Neighbors - or Two Ways of Living in the World • Anonymous |
