...we are tried. A prophet of old told a man what wickedness he would commit when elevated to power: he exclaimed, "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?" Nothing is more corrupting than power. Hence the necessity of restraining it by every available check....

...the prophet predicted, that when advanced to authority, he would be guilty of oppression and cruelty, exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?" But he did it. Such, indeed, were the naturally vitiating consequences of the possession of arbitrary...

...alive. When our prophet had predicted the future vileness of Hazael, Hazael shocked at the intelligence exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing !" He was probably at the time sincere ; but he knew not how differently he should feel in new and...

...the Jewish king that he would, at a future time, commit some great iniquity, the latter indignantly exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ?" But he did it. Did it, although both the letter and the spirit of hU religion were against it ;...

...the Jewish king that he would, at a future time, commit some great iniquity, the latter indignantly exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ?" But he did it. Did it, although both the letter and the spirit of his religion were against it ;...

...viewed him with tears, and predicted the cruelties of his future reign, he was filled with horror, and exclaimed, " is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ? " " Yet," as Matthew Henry remarks, "after all, the dog did it." He went forward, arrived at the...

...viewed him with tears, and predicted the cruelties of his future reign, he was filled with horror, and exclaimed, " is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ? " " Yet," as Matthew Henry remarks, "after all, the dog did it." He went forward, arrived at the...

...viewed him with tears, and predicted the cruelties of his future reign, he was filled with horror, and exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?" But he went forward — arrived at the foot of the throne — exchanged the man for the tyrant —...

...of Hazael, who, when the prophet predicted the murder and rapine which he would afterwards commit, exclaimed, ' Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ?' and yet the prediction was actually fulfilled by him to the very letter. He who can enter upon so...

...When the prophet Elisha told Hazael, 1 Kings xi. 8, what horrid deeds he should perpetrate, the man exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ? " Yet at that moment the germs of the action were throbbing in his heart, and about to break into...