| John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...objectionable passages. TODD. Ver. 936. So much of adder's wisdom I have learn'd,] The allusion is to Psalm Iviii. 4, 5. " They are like the deaf adder,...ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely." NEWTON. Ver. 953. • • to tear thee joint by joint.] Milton perhaps recollected... | |
| Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 528 pages
...the Scriptures, persons under the dominion of hardness and impenitency of heart, are likened to 2 F 2 the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, which will not hearken to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely; — and they are said to have the understanding darkened, being... | |
| 1829 - 494 pages
...ancients, who took it for a sort of sorcery. David mentions it in the fifty-eighth Psalm, where he says : " They are like the deaf Adder, that stoppeth her ear...: which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely." THE VIPER, OR ADDER, Is a venomous animal, a species of serpent, that seldom... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies ; their poison ii like the poison of a serpent ; eat ? or what shall we drink ? or wherewithal shall we be clothed? For your charming never eo wisely. Break their teeth, О God, in their mouth ; break out the great teeth of... | |
| John Hall - 1832 - 504 pages
...daily partakers ? Are not these persons also deaf with regard to the admonitions of the word of God : Like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely ?17 They turn a deaf ear to that word which is able to make them wise unto... | |
| William Allen - 1834 - 428 pages
...the other; Read Psalm Iviii. verses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ; and whether you are not such, who are said to be like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ear, which will not hearken to the voice of the charmer, charming never so wisely. And see Prov. xv. verses 31, 32. Do your ears hear reproof,... | |
| 1834 - 438 pages
...incantations. The most remarkable of these texts is that of the 58th Psalm, where the wicked are compared to " the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, which will not hearken to the voice of chantiers, charming never so wisely ;" and that of the 8th chap, of Jeremiah, " I will send ser^nts... | |
| 1835 - 538 pages
...fsurth and fifth verses of the fifty-eighth psalm : " their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, which will not hearken to the voice of the charmers, charming never so wisely." Whenever a poisonous snake is known to be in the vicinity... | |
| 1835 - 430 pages
...as appears from the following passage of Scripture: "Their poison is like the poison of a serpent : they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear ; which will not hearken to the voice of the charmers, charming never so wisely40:" and this other: " For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices,... | |
| Hindus - 1835 - 434 pages
...appears from the following passage of Scripture : " Their poison is like the poison of a serpent : they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear ; which will not hearken to the voice of the charmers, charming never so wisely40:" and this other: " For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices,... | |
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