 | David Low - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...sycamore of Scripture. But the sycamore of Scripture was not a maple, but a* species of fig-tree. " I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son ; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit." The Sycamore Maple is a fine tree, with broad leaves,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...Matthew and St. Mark, the call of Amos, as he himself records it, will supply an interesting parallel: "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son, but I was an herdman and a gatherer of sycomore fruit, and the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...but a man of no pretensions, and occupying a humble station in life. " I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore fruit : and the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people of Israel." He began to prophesy in the reign of Uzziah,... | |
 | James Foote - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 674
...stones, and cedars as the sycamoretrees that are in the rale, for abundance;" and from the words of Amos, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son ; but I was an herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore-fruit."* The word " sycamore" is compounded of two words, whereof... | |
 | Edward Cook - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 206
...who is the subject of this memoir. He could truly say in the language of a text used by himself, " I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son, but I was an herdman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit; and the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court." Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, " -I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son ; but I was an herdman, and a -gatherer of sycamore fruit : and INTERREGNUM FOR ELEVEN YEAES. [975-606 BC the Lord... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...Matthew and St. Mark, the call of Amos, as he himself records it, will supply an interesting parallel : " I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son, but I was an herdman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit, and the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the... | |
 | George Smith - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...inspiration. Both the rule and the exception are proved in the account which Amos gives of himself : " I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son ; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit : and the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the... | |
 | Ann Willson - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...desiring she would neither plead inability or incapacity — like one formerly excusing himself thus : " I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son ; but I was an herdman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit." It is indeed an important subject, to which I feel much... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 34
...Lord. And now behold the wrath of God in consequence of it. ." Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit; and the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the... | |
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Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son ; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:* And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. 
