 | Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1833 - 572 pages
...resurrection, he so plainly foresaw. " O that my words were now written !" said the afflicted patriarch, " O that they were printed in a book ! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever ! For I know that my Redeemer liveth, (or is the Living One)5 and that * John i,... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...remember thy name, my God ! until I die. I will say with him of old, " О that my words were now written ! that they were printed in a book ; that they were graven with an iron pen in a rock for ever ! for I know that my Redeemer liveth ; and though worms destroy this body, yet in... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 368 pages
...apostrophe : — " O that my words were now written ! O that they were printed (impressed or traced out) in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever !" * Bent vl. 8, 9. X The latter aspiration probably alludes to the very ancient... | |
 | William Carleton - Catholics - 1834 - 230 pages
...father," said he, " hear the last words that my lips will ever read to you." He then read these verses : " Oh, that my words were now written ! oh, that they...That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day on... | |
 | Apologetics - 1834 - 640 pages
...character of his great Redeemer, and anticipating the glories of a blessed resurrection, he exclaims, " Oh that my words were now written ! Oh that they were...That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever !"* David, from his early piety, and from his strong predilection for the charms... | |
 | James Forbes - India - 1834 - 586 pages
...the writings of Moses. In his sublime and pathetic apostrophe the afflicted Patriarch exclaims, " O that my words were now written ! oh that they were...that they were graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever ! for I know that my REDEEMER liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1830 - 820 pages
...enveloped in clouds, and mists, and fog, at length breaks through all the gloom ; and then he says, " Oh that my words were now written ! oh that they were...that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!" This emphatic exclamation introduces the noblest confession of faith which is contained... | |
 | 1835 - 962 pages
...exclamation of Job will, no doubt, occur to the reader, and is naturally presented to our notice: ' Oh, that my words were now written! oh, that they...that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock everl'—xix. 23, 24. As Joh, in this passage, speaks of such writing as is expressive of... | |
 | Harold Schweizer - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 240 pages
...comforters, "How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?" (19:2). And later on: "Oh, that my words were now written! / Oh that they were printed in a book" (19:23) or "Oh . . . that mine adversary had written a book!" (31:35). Yet, to prolong the desire for... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Fiction - 1998 - 516 pages
...ye see at what do you want from. 256.12 tablets of brass with apen of steel compare Job 19.23-24:'Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were...That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever'. In the Bible it is usually 'tables of stone', not of brass, in which words are... | |
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Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! 
