| James Edmund Vernon - 1877 - 186 ページ
...it ? Well, when he awoke, Jacob was frightened, and said, " Surely the LORD is in this place, and I knew it not! How dreadful is this place !—this is none other but the house of GOD, and this is the gate of heaven!" Would not the people of Bethlehem have said the... | |
| William Cooke - 1877 - 440 ページ
...solemnity and blessedness ; as at Bethel, where Jacob exclaimed, " Surely, Jehovah is in this place, and I knew it not. How dreadful is this place. This is none other but the house of God and the gate of heaven." At Peniel, he wrestled with the angel of the covenant, the... | |
| 1869 - 678 ページ
...feel as did Jacob, when, waking out of his sleep, he said : " Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. How dreadful is this place ; this is none other but the House of God, and this is the gate of heaven." In the passage under consideration, however, the... | |
| Edward Greenhow - 1879 - 124 ページ
...the lonely wilderness. And so, when he woke up, he said, " Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not How dreadful is this place ; this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." Therefore he called the place "Bethel," and poured... | |
| 1883 - 690 ページ
...father Jacob was taught when he woke out of sleep, and said, " Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. How dreadful is this place ! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven " (Gen. xxviii. 16, 17). They required to have their... | |
| 1885 - 852 ページ
...uniting heaven and earth, and from which Jacob awakes to say, " Surely the Lord was in this place and I kne.w it not. How dreadful is this place ! This is none other but the house of God : this is the gate of heaven." Certainly the religious affections are not "full-grown... | |
| James Roberts - 1886 - 154 ページ
...conscious of His presence and, like Jacob, were ready to exclaim: "Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. * * * How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven." Such was the impression that his prayers made, whether... | |
| John Knox Shaw - 1887 - 422 ページ
...When Jacob awoke from his profound slumber, he exclaimed, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not ! How dreadful is this place ! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." (Genesis xxviii. 16, 17.) So, with equal propriety,... | |
| Priests, Priest of the Province of Canterbury - 1888 - 346 ページ
...formally dedicated to God's service. his sleep, he said, " Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. How dreadful is this place ! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven." And we are told that Jacob rose up early in the... | |
| Anna Jane Buckland - 1891 - 202 ページ
...full of light and meaning, that we are ready to exclaim, " Surely the Lord is in this place ; and / knew it not. . . . How dreadful is this place ! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." It is difficult to speak very simply of so high... | |
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