| Mennonites - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...farther set before our eyes, a striking representation in the nuptual guests ; when he saith, When thoti art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him ; and he that bade thee and him come and eay... | |
| John Kitto - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...in the Testament. UO Then let us hear it by all means. F. (Having found the passage, reads : — ) " When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room ; lest a * The Persian modes of sitting are described in p. 109. more honourable man than them be bidden... | |
| Francis Gastrell - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...; than that thou shouldst be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom thine eyes have seen. * When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; and he that bade thee and him, come and say... | |
| William Fleming - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...origin and more strongly inculcate the moral of that beautiful antithesis with which it closes. — ' When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding sit not down in the highest place, lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him, and he that bade thee and him come and... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 776
...which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms, saying unto them, When tliou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room ; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him ; and he that bade thee and him come and say... | |
| 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 274
...origin, and more strongly inculcate the moral of that beautiful antithesis with which it closes : — ' When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room ; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him ; and he that bade thee and him come and say... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 726
...or favourite ; for this is the highest honour that can be shown to any one at an eastern feast." " Two interesting passages of Scripture derive illustration...place or station], lest a more honourable man than thon be bidden of him ; and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place : and... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 720
...friend or favourite ; for this is the highest honour that can be shown to any one at an eastern feasf." "Two interesting passages of Scripture derive illustration...the Saviour says, ' When thou art bidden of any man lo a wedding, dt not down in the highest room [that is, place or station], lest a more honourable man... | |
| Sophia Kelly - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...she heard Miss Burrage commanding her sisters and herself, to exert themselves to gain attention : " When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room ; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him ; and he that bade thee and him come and say... | |
| Johnstone - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...means of having it undervalued. But what do we read in St. Luke, as the words of our Lord himself? " When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him ; and he that bade thee come and say to thee,... | |
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