 | 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 686
...satisfied with conclusions, the opposite of which he desires me to advocate. The wise man has told us "that a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city ; and contentions are like the bars of a castle." Paul says " we are not to give offence to Jew nor... | |
 | Charles Rockwell - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...the savage malignity of these family feuds, has been sadly exemplified the truth of Solomon's remark, that " A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city ; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle." We cannot fully estimate the vast amount of... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 696
...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 lite the bars of .a castle. 20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the... | |
 | Bernhard Severin Ingemann - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 976
...son may not be a castaway ; and for the sake of thine own peace ! " whispered the ecclesiastic — " A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and quarrels are as bars before a palace." " But strong cities may fall, and the palaces of rebels... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...with. xviii. 6. A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. — Ver. 19. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city ; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. xx ii. 10. Cost out the scorner, and contention... | |
 | Simon Clough - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...members. It is truly honorable to be a peace-maker. It is, indeed, a painful and difficult task ; for a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city ; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. But if the work of reconciliation be painful... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), James Aikman - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 758
...of persuading them to listen to proposition 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... | |
 | 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...of wrath, enmity, pride, and contention. ' Family disputes and religious disputes know no bounds;' 'a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city,' Prov. xviii. 19. ' Good men sometimes agree better when they go in at different church doors.' This... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...unprejudiced minds of this generation should be frank enough to admit. The wise man of Israel said, " A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city ; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle." That many were needlessly " offended " by the... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 842
...never felt how hard it is to get back from a cool distrust into the warmth of love towards each other? "A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city." (Prov. xviii. 19.) The thread once snapped is not easily united again. The endeavour to place ourselves... | |
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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. 
