...thought to do me mischief. Ami I sent messengers unto them, saying. I am dultiga great work, so thjit storehouses and sold unto the Egyptians; ami the famine waxed sure in thu land of Egypt FINAL DISPERSION. Dent, xxvill, G6, 67. And thy life shall hang In doubt before thee; and thou shall...

...an insidious invitation which was brought to him while he was rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem : " I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down...work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you?" Nehemiah and Aldus felt the value of time ; and who will censure them for trying to guard it from dissipation...

...magnanimous was the patriot's reply: — " I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down to you : why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you !" (Neh. vi. 3). One feature in Nehemiah's character — his determination of purpose — may be observed...

...is ever constrained to adopt the language of Nehemiah: " I am doing a great work, so that I can not come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you ?" What is claimed for them is simply this: that the ministry of the two great denominations which...

...For Can he forget me, Will he neglect me f ing the Temple of Jerusalem, " I am doing a great work. Why should the work cease whilst I leave it and come down to you ?" And a great work, indeed, you have done, God be praised. I hope now you, yourself, will think you...

...in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, unto Zoar. 1 1 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and ? 4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort ; and I answered them after the same manner. 5...

...villages in the plain of Ono." But they thought to do me evil. And I s sent messengers unto them, saying, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down;...work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?" Yet they « sent unto me four times after this manner; and I answered them after the same manner. 5...

...writers have entered into the spirit of Nehemiah's question. " I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down....work cease whilst I leave it and come down to you ?" (Neh. vi. 3). These words were spoken by Nehemiah, through his messengers, to Sanballat and Geshem,...

...behold my Lord at home In a diviner light." II. II. A GOOD EXAMPLE. " I am doing a great ЛУОГ!<, so that I cannot come down ; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ?" — NEH. vi. 3. NEHKMIAH, with praiseworthy zeal, had taken upon himself the responsibility of building...

...protected. "I am doing a great work," answers he when the messengers of mischief arrive, " so that I can not come down ; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you ?" Here is his safety, here his success, though laboring, as it were, in the trenches of the battle-field,...