 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Anthologies - 1874 - 496 pages
...an unspotted life is old age. Though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest. He being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time. The righteous being dead shall condemn the unrighteous who are living ; and youth that is perfected... | |
 | Andrew Jervise - Epitaphs - 1875 - 442 pages
...21ST AUGUST 1862. Upon another dressed slab, a few inches below the above, is this quotation : — He being made perfect in a short time, Fulfilled a long time : For his soul pleased the Lord, Therefore hasted He to take Him away from among the wicked. Wisdom... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1897 - 546 pages
...his sudden removal from the critical scene, we are reminded of the words of the Wisdom of Solomon : ' He being made perfect in a short time fulfilled a long time : for his soul pleased the Lord : therefore hasted He to take him away from among the wicked.'1 As... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - History, Ancient - 1876 - 602 pages
...in the hand " of God." " In the sight of the unwise they seemed " to die ; but they are in peace." " He, being made " perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time." " God 1 Wisdom, iii. 4; i. 15. ' » See Lecture XL VI. » See Lectures VH. and XXV. " created man to... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Jews - 1877 - 548 pages
...in the hand of ' God.' ' In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die ; but ' they are in peace.' ' He, being made perfect in a short ' time, fulfilled a long time.' ' God created man to be im' mortal, and made him an image of His own eternity. To ' know God is perfect... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Oriental literature - 1873 - 562 pages
...an unspotted life is old age. Though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest. He being made- perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time. The righteous being dead shall condemn the unrighteous who are living ; and youth that is perfected... | |
 | Divine service - 1878 - 676 pages
...was he taken away, lest that wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul. He being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time : for his soul pleased the Lord : therefore hasted He to take him away from among the wicked ; for... | |
 | Our own country - 1878 - 714 pages
...inscription and a most appropriate BALMOUAL CASTLE, FROM THE EOAD. quotation from the Wisdom of Solomon : " He being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time : for his soul pleased the Lord, therefore hasted He to take him away from among the wicked." Extensive... | |
 | John Mason Neale, Richard Frederick Littledale - Bible - 1879 - 662 pages
...measured by number of years. But wisdom is the grey hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age .... He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time." The later commentators, however, take the whole passage in a bad sense, and interpret it of the falling... | |
 | James Bowling Mozley - Occasional sermons - 1879 - 378 pages
...of Him ; so that living among sinners, he was translated; yea, speedily was he taken away .... for he being made perfect in a short time. fulfilled a long time"— words which though exulting in hope still carry on an undertone of sadness. But though the essence... | |
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He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time: For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked. 
