| Willis Mason West - 1913 - 760 Seiten
...to sea. It seemed to the Jewish citizens of Alexandria to make real once more the old Hebrew story of the Pillar of Cloud by day and of Fire by night, — to guide wanderers on the wastes of waves. "All night," said a Greek poet, " will the sailor, driving... | |
| Willard Learoyd Sperry - 1921 - 202 Seiten
...the office of the Christian religion really is. Hoffding laments that whereas formerly religion was the pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night which marched in the vanguard of history, now it is only an ambulance corps trailing along in the rear of... | |
| Willis Mason West - 1922 - 1074 Seiten
...seemed to the Jewish citizens of Alexandria to make real once more the old Hebrew story Literature of the Pillar of Cloud by day and of Fire by night, -to guide wanderers on tiie wastes of produced new waves. All mght, said a Greek poet, will the sailor,... | |
| 1925 - 476 Seiten
...others we recognize to be nothing but pleasant fancies, while others we mistake to be facts. They are the pillar of cloud by day, and of fire by night, which float before us. Our system of habits is undoubtedly modified to some degree by these illusions, sometimes... | |
| Rory C. Foster, Rupert Clinton Foster - 1995 - 1446 Seiten
...enveloping them in its soft mist (Matt. 17:5). It was the symbol of the divine presence. It suggests the pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night which guided Israel through the wilderness. All three narrators speak of the cloud "overshadowing" them.... | |
| Richard N. Longenecker - 2001 - 318 Seiten
...hope. And this salvation is precisely the New Exodus. Led by the Spirit, who here takes on the role of the pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night, we are called the children of God. We are no longer slaves, and must not dream of going back to Egypt.... | |
| James D. G. Dunn, John William Rogerson - 2003 - 1672 Seiten
...on the way to the promised land and to lead it in its conquest. This angelic figure must relate to the "pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night" which leads them on the way in 13:21 and which in turn is associated with the tent of meeting and the ark... | |
| 1910 - 298 Seiten
...development of his work a leadership upon wlii-h lie can depend as clearly as though they had seen the pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night which led the children of Israel in their journey through the wilderness. Such a result, so far as it may... | |
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