 | 1831 - 930 էջ
...cometh and searcheth him. 18 The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty. 19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city ; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. 20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 էջ
...brought very low : deliver me from my persecutors, O God, for they are stronger than I. Pi. cxlii. 6. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city : and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. Pr. xviii. 19. Our God (said Shadracli. &c.)... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 834 էջ
...restoring the former amity. One who was thoroughly conversant with human nature, has told us, that " a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city." We should be ready to imagine that in proportion as the previous union was close and affectionate,... | |
 | Robert Leighton, James Aikman - 1832 - 758 էջ
...persuading them t<> listen to propositions of peace, but he found the truth of Solomon's observation, that " a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and their contentions are like the bars of a castle." He told them that some of their number would... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 էջ
...covereth all sins. • 33 The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty. 34 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. 35 He that hath no rule over his own spirit, is... | |
 | Thomas Turton - 1833 - 154 էջ
...before them; and thai which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap." Ps. Lxix. 22. "A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city." Prov. xviii. 19. "Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes." Isai. v. 21. "But ye say, Whosoever... | |
 | Thomas Turton - 1833 - 60 էջ
...adduced : " He was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle." Gen. iv. 20 ; — " A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city." Prov. xviii. 19 ; — " He bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows." Ps. Iviii. 7 ; — " Woe unto them... | |
 | 1837 - 404 էջ
...the war of harsh words is begun, the closer the friendship has been, the more deadly now the war. " A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle." Often, too, a strife once kindled would go out,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1837 - 282 էջ
...is to be unbroken and perfected in heaven. But is it always thus ? The Book of Truth informs us that a " brother offended is harder to be won, than a strong city, that their contentions are like the bars of a castle:" admitting that there are, even in this endeared... | |
 | Alexander Robert C. Dallas - 1837 - 402 էջ
...may plainly see that He who inspired the writer knew " what was in man." How true is that proverb, "A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city ; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle." (Prov. xviii. 19.) The bitter spite that existed... | |
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A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. 
