 | rev James Inglis - 1861 - 550 pages
...errorwhich proceedeth from the ruler : 6. Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 16. Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning I v. 17. Isa.... | |
 | Yachting - 1861 - 598 pages
...are thus able to lord it over them, furnishing an apt illustration of the wise man's picture "Truly I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." When at times the relative position of the master is less open to objection in this respect, (and it... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - Bible - 1862 - 508 pages
...error which proceedeth from the ruler : folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth" (x. 5-7). Surely this implies that the writer had not the power to rectify such inequalities. His age,... | |
 | 1862 - 184 pages
...error which proceedeth from the ruler; folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Eo. 10. 5_7. Lord, Hearken not to the 11 The discretion of words of your prophets that a man deferreth... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - 1862 - 506 pages
...error which proceedeth from the ruler : folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth" (x. 5-7). Surely this implies that the writer had not the power to rectify such inequalities. His age,... | |
 | Theology - 1862 - 978 pages
...nick of time, and the power of God is ? laced quite at their service. " Folly is set in great dignity, have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." We might specify the Sabbath as a farther illustration of our subject. How many are there (and those,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Theology - 1863 - 630 pages
...their parts and estate, and are well worthy of eminent places, are neglected and disregarded. 7. " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth."] — Which, what is it other, than as if servants should ride on horseback while princes walk by their... | |
 | 1864 - 938 pages
...mounted their horses : so that you " could see the prophecy of Ecclesiastes " there and then fulfilled, ' I have seen " servants upon horses, and princes " walking as servants upon the earth.'" The surprise was complete. Young De Montfort himself, with two or three others, escaped naked in a... | |
 | Ichabod Smith Spencer - 1864 - 492 pages
...under the sun, because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it (viii. 16, 17). / have SEEN servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth (x. 7). (He would see it now if he were alive.) / returned and SAW under the sun, that tlie race is... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1865 - 704 pages
...for herself, and the other for the servant that attended her. Solomon might refer to the same, when e people stood to the covenant See on 2 Kings 11. 14. Ver. 7. And he brake down the houses o Eccl. x. 7. My reader, however, will meet with a more exact illustration of this passage in its proper... | |
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 
