Fondare 652 Risultati per: Heaven's Manna
Of the king, no treasonable thought; of the nobles, no ill word even in thy bed-chamber; the very birds in heaven will catch the echoes of it, and fly off to betray thy secret. (Ecclesiastes 10, 20)
The bird’s flight through air what print betrays? So fiercely lashed the still breeze with the beating of her pinions, as she cleaves her noisy way through heaven, wings flapping, and is gone; and afterwards, what sign of her going? (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 11)
Hard enough to read the riddle of our life here, with laborious search ascertaining what lies so close to hand; and would we trace out heaven’s mysteries too? (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 16)
Thy purposes none may know, unless thou dost grant thy gift of wisdom, sending out from high heaven thy own holy spirit. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 17)
And thy own people, Lord? Them thou didst foster with the food of angels; bread from heaven thou didst set before them, which no labour of theirs had made ready, every taste uniting that could bring content, of every appetite the welcome choice. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 20)
This manna, that never shrank from the fire while it was a-cooking, would melt before the heat of the sun’s first feeble ray. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 27)
never was sword so sharp, errand so unmistakable; thy word that could spread death everywhere, that trod earth, yet reached up to heaven. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 16)
Sand thou mayst count, or the rain-drops, or the days of the world’s abiding; heaven-height thou mayst measure, or the wide earth, or the depth of the world beneath, (Ecclesiasticus 1, 2)
God, that marshals the armies of high heaven, and man, all dust and ashes! (Ecclesiasticus 17, 31)
In high heaven was my dwelling-place, my throne a pillar of cloud; (Ecclesiasticus 24, 7)
Sun dawning in heaven cannot match the lustre a good wife sheds on her home, (Ecclesiasticus 26, 21)
From her cheeks they rise to heaven, where all prayers are heard, a grievous sight. (Ecclesiasticus 35, 19)
