...grasshoppers : that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in ! Will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain him ! Thus saith the Lord, the heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool !" These, my brethren,...

...pass on without repeating it. *" But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold ! the heaven, the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded !" Incomparable saying ! worthy the wisest of men. Who would not choose to pos* 1 Kings viii. 27. But...

...Gen. xix. 24. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee, Deut. iv. 36. But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold, the heaven and heaven of hearens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded ? 1 Kings viii. 27. Hear...

...heavens, cannot contain thet ; how much less this house which 1 have built !) Have respect, therefore, to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my GoJ, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee : that thine eyes...

...word, I pray thee, be verified, which t HoU 'uuii/if. thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. 27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold, the...thee ; how much less this house that I have builded ? 28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God,...

...admire his condescension in deigning to make the most magnificent temple the place of his glory. " Will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven...thee ; how much less this house that I have builded !" Being spiritual and uncompounded in his nature and essence, he is without parts, and cannot be divided...

...admire his condescension in deigning to make the most magnificent temple the place of his glory. " Will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven...thee ; how much less this house that I have builded ! " Being spiritual and uncompounded in his nature and essence, he is without parts, and cannot be...

...Egypt." And Solomon himself afterwards saith. 1 Kings viii. 27, " But will God indeed dwell on the aoa earth? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot...thee ; how much less this house that I have builded ?" But the same is Btill more expressively set forth by Isaiah, chap. Ixvi. " Thus saith the Lord,...

...God, because of their having built unto him so magnificent a temple: and iiif this confidence they• earth ? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens...thee; how much less this house that I have builded ?" But the same is still more expressively set forth by Isaiah, chap. Ixvi. " Thus saith the Lord,...

...a remarkable appeal that Solomon made in his affecting prayer at the dedication of the temple^Will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold! the heaven...heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less the house that I have builded ! 1 Kings viii, 27. This was an instance of divine condescension and...