 | Charles Frederic Hudson - Eschatology - 1857 - 498 pages
...him to. God. The sense of its parting is the pang of his death. CHAPTER XII. THE MISSIONARY SPIRIT. "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, beciusa they were not." § 1. VICARIOUS IMMORTALITY. THE... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Clergy - 1857 - 516 pages
...God of all comfort,' (2 Cor. i. 3,) speaks as distinctly in the death as in the birth of an infant. A ' voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping: Rachel, weeping for her children, refused to be comforted, because they were not. Thus saith the Lord, Refrain thy voice from weeping,... | |
 | John Eadie - Bible - 1857 - 858 pages
...to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. .'«'/•. xrxl. 15. Thus salth tbe LOBD, ve unto him, and believed aitiuiig iiiti »iiicii ti?tw Diouytlus tlin Areop:iglte,and a woma rclusod to be c imfortcd for lier children, because they were not. Haien Ix. 4. Thi>y nhall not offer... | |
 | George Blair - Cemeteries - 1857 - 400 pages
...widows trust in me.' " On one side, or stone post of the gateway, are engraved the following verses:— *A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her childrea, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. 'And there is hope iu thine... | |
 | 1858 - 282 pages
...two years old and under did Herod slay many children for the Lord's sake.— St. Matt. ii. 16. (3.) A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping : Rachel weeping for her children. — Jer. xxxi. 15 ; St. Matt. ii. 16. (4.) From under the Altar the souls of them that were slain do... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 2002 - 724 pages
...the middle of. the deck?" 579:26-27 She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not: "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children because they were not" (Jer. 31:15). 599:16 hase of the Eddystone:... | |
 | Susan Wolstenholme - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 234 pages
...generally read) to imply that Rachel's children are dead and that Rachel mourns their loss: "Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation,...and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not." If the passage is read this way,... | |
 | Nehama Aschkenasy - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 292 pages
...the prophet Jeremiah's vision of the eternal mother, Rachel, mourning over her dispersed children: "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping / Rachel weeping for her children / She refused to be comforted for her children, because they are not" (Jer. 31 : 14). Though in this... | |
 | Michael Berenbaum - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 240 pages
...Rachel, I will restore Israel to their place.' And so it is written, Thus saith the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not (Jer. XXXI, 15). This is followed... | |
 | Shalom Goldman - Social Science - 1995 - 228 pages
...Biblical text alludes to the tomb's importance in a later generation: Thus saith the Lord: a voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. (Jeremiah 31:15) The Rabbis understood this Biblical verse to be a reference to the efficacy of supplication... | |
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Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping ; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. 
