The Testimony of the Heathen to the Truths of Holy Writ; A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 ...in the deep. 25. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 26. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the their soul is melted because of trouble. "Amid waves and billows and tides of rivers for ever on the ebb and flow, nature still unceasingly exerts her powers; and nowhere, if we must confess the truth, does she display herself in greater might What living mortal could display the whole of the powerful properties displayed by this element, water!,"--Plin. Hut. nat. 1. xxxi. c. 1. Ovid thus describes a storm at sea--"Sublime the vessel rides upon the winds--As from a lofty summit looks from high, And from the clouds beholds the nether sky; Now from the depth of hell they lift their sight, And at a distance see superior light." Ov. Metam. 1. xi. v. 503. "Ah wretched me! What mountains of water are heaped aloft! Now, they seem to leap up to the stars! What abysses yawn as the sea recedes! now they appear to lay open the depths of Tartarus! On whichever side you look there is nothing but sea and sky; the one swelling with billows, the other lowering with clouds." Ibid. Trist. 1.i. eleg 2. "The clouds are touched by the sails and the earth by the keel. For the sea does not conceal the sand; it rises in mountains and all the waters are in waves." Luc. Phars. 1. v. v. 642 28. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. When the Roman sea-captains sacrificed to the waves, as was their custom, they intended to worship and propitiate, not the elements themselves, but that Deity who stirs up the waves, and of whose wonders in the deep they were witnesses. "Gods of the sea and skies (for what resource have I but ...