...benefit of intercession as it respects others. There is a remarkable passage in Ezekiel xiv. 14: " Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God." From this passage we may infer two things : — First,...

...character, may be inferred from the manner in which he is mentioned by Ezekiel and by St. James : " Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God (x)." As Noah and Daniel were unquestionably real characters,...

...language of Ezekiel, his contemporary and an older man. "Son of man, when the land sinneth against me, &c. though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, said the Lord God." (Ezek. xiv. 13, 14.) "Son of man, say unto the Prince of...

...denunciation pronounced by God himself against the house of Israel to this prophet, " Though those three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord of hosts," (Ezek. xiv. 14,) removes all doubt but that it was...

...description, is the inability under which God represents Himself to have laboured. "Though Moses an«t Samuel stood before me, yet my mind COULD NOT be toward this people. "5 "The new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I CANNOT away with."0 And thus we say, an...

...benefit of intercession as it respects others. There is a remarkable passage in Ezekiel xiv. 14 : " Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God." From this passage we may infer two things : — First,...

...benefit of intercession as it respects others. There is a remarkable passage in Ezekiel xiv. 14 : " Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God." From this passage we may infer two things : — First,...

...manner in which he is mentioned ffl the Scriptures. Thus, the prophet Ezekiel speaks of him : — Thugh these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should Afew but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God. (Ezek. xiv. 14.) In this passage...

...I will not hear thee. — Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. — Though. Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind...were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God." What learn we from all this, but that there are cases-...

...will hearken to no intercessions for them. As when he said of the idolatrous and factious Jews ; " Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be towards this people." (Jer. xv. 1.) Moses had before diverted His wrath from them, (Exod. xxxii. 11,12,...