| 1834 - 274 pages
...heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Beth-el : but the name of that city was called Luz at the first. And... | |
| Stephen Kay - 1834 - 468 pages
...patriarch, who, when on his journey to Padan-Aram, " took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will... | |
| William Henry Clarke - 1834 - 402 pages
...house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." He took the stone which had been his restingplace, " he set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel," which signifies in the Hebrew tongue, "the house of God."... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 pages
...put them for his pillows," and in the eighteenth, " he took the stone that he had put for his pillow thus speaks of himself. " The Lord possessed me in the win it,"f has given occasion to one of the Jewish Rabbins to attempt a reconciliation by a fiction of his... | |
| Richard Westall, John Martin - 1835 - 204 pages
...order to commemorate so signal a visitation, Jacob " took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it," thus dedicating it to God's service. Here he was no doubt afterwards accustomed to repair, and " offer... | |
| Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 406 pages
...venerable institution. 'Jacob rose up early in the morning, took the stone which he had put for his pillow, set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.'* 'And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God talked with him, even a pillar of stone, and he poured... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 652 pages
...longer, and again repeat the same humiliations, till he shall have gained his object. XXVIII. 18. — " Set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it." At the consecration of an altar, or the lingam, ghee, ie clarified butter, is always (with other things)... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 652 pages
...longer, and again repeat the same humiliations, till he shall have gained his object. XXVIII. 18. — " Set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it." • At the consecration of an altar, or the lingam, ghee, te clarified butter, is always (with other... | |
| George Holden - 1836 - 428 pages
...service of God with holy rites and ceremonies. Jacob " took the stone which he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it," and then called the place Bethel, by interpretation the house of God, Gen. xxviii. 18. At the command of... | |
| 1836 - 284 pages
...event : " And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it." — Gen. xxviii. 18. From the remains of the pottery of the Romans which have been preserved to the... | |
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