...capable of such savage actions as the prophet had mentioned ; and, with much warmth, he replies, " But, what ! is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing ?" Elisha makes no return but to point out a remarkable change which was to take place in his condition...

...would dash their children, and rip up their women with child,' he said with a sort of resentment, ' What, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?' Si Kings viii. 12, 13. Dost thou divest me of humanity, and make me appear as cruel and despicable...

...may be such as formerly he would have abhorred in the highest degree, and have said with Hazael, " What, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?" W. Benuit thus opening matters to her, did by- his wholesome admonition so work upon her mind, that...

...horror from a prophetic display of his own character, and an anticipated view of his own conduct — " What, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?"* He viewed it then, through the calm medium of rea* a Kings riii. 11 son, humanity, and conscience ;...

...the result was that Peter did deny his Master. We all remember the indignant exclamation of Hazael, " What ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing .'" and yet he did it. So it is with ourselves ; we think our hearts incapable of the sins which, nevertheless,...

...children of Israel, mentioning some of the most savage cruelties, as a part of this evil. Hazael replied: But what! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? He considers it impossible for him to be guilty of such atrocities, and therefore repels the intimation...

...which he put to the prophet, when little dreaming of the tremendous inroads of vice upon himself: " What! is thy servant A DOG, that he should do this great thing?" THE only things in which we can be said to have any property, are our actions. Our thoughts may be...

...the throne of Syria, the haughty soldier indignantly repelled them as an imputation on his honour. " But, what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?" * Before bringing this article to a close, one other circumstance in the natural history of the...

...did Hazael. When the prophet told him of what horrible enormities he would be guilty, he exclaimed, " What ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? " And yet, under the power of temptation, his better principles gave way, and he committed the very...

...with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. 13 Ana Hazael said, d the children of Jacob, "whom he named Israel ; 35 With whom the LO And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shah be king over Syria. 14 So he departed from...