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... sea, sloping upwards with those grand and simple concave curves which betoken, almost always, volcanic land. Nearer still, the purple changed to green. Tall palm-trees and engine-houses stood out ...
https://biblehub.com/library/kingsley/at_last/chapter_ii_down_the_islands.htm
... a ) The region is adapted to this. "It is not AEtna, the Lipari volcanic islands, Vesuvius, that alone offer visible indications of the physical adaptedness of Italy for such ...
https://biblehub.com/library/barnes/barnes_new_testament_notes/revelation_of_st_john_the_304.htm
... not we escape … In the case of Palestine, there had been ages of experience in volcanic convulsions before Bible times. Probably the great Mediterranean Sea is a pre-Adamic volcanic crevasse, by ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/taylor/the_immovable_kingdom.htm
... the days of Uzziah king of Judah … Palestine lies almost in the centre of one great volcanic region of the earth's surface, that, namely, which includes the basin of the Mediterranean ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/plumptre/earthquakes_in_palestine.htm
... perils — the first arises from the storms bearing upon it from without; the second from volcanic forces assailing it from within. Of the two, the most dangerous is the volcanic force ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/jones/danger_from_within_the_church.htm
... means of reproducing the vegetation. 3. Another illustration of the principle may be derived from volcanic regions. No scenes of earth are lovelier than those which are subjected to the frequent destructive ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/macmillan/beauty_for_ashes.htm
... distinction that will occur to you between the two. Passion is always occasional, it is volcanic, it is soon over. It is like the thunderstorm. It bursts and breaks; ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/home/temper_a_deadly_sin.htm
... , denoting sulphurous fire, or fire having the smell of sulphur; and may denote a volcanic eruption, or any burning like that of naphtha. There is no improbability in supposing either ...
https://biblehub.com/library/barnes/barnes_new_testament_notes/the_gospel_according_to_luke_781.htm
... knew how to reach it. It is like standing in the midst of some of those volcanic regions. All about you looks to be nothing but the hardness and the ruggedness of rock ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/boyd/the_conversion_of_zaccheus.htm
... of prodigious birth, which was till lately referred, like many another strange object, to volcanic action. The explanation savoured somewhat of a bull'; for what a volcano could do ...
https://biblehub.com/library/kingsley/at_last/chapter_viii_la_brea.htm
... simplest methods of interpretation that, leaving out of view certain patches of metamorphosed rocks and certain volcanic products, all that is now dry land has once been at the bottom of the waters ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/huxley/land_from_beneath_the_waters.htm
... Sodom and Gomorrah, and tries to establish the fact that it was nothing but a natural volcanic eruption; and by getting rid of the supernatural agency he thinks he has got rid of ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/robertson/the_destruction_of_sodom_by_god_through_natural_agencies.htm
... :13; 33:29) [Grotius] . 4. Imagery from earthquakes and volcanic agency, to describe the terrors which attend Jehovah's coming in judgment (compare Jud 5: ...
https://biblehub.com/library/jamieson/commentary_critical_and_explanatory_on_the_whole_bible/mic_1_1-16_gods_wrath_against.htm
... to wickedness and brutality, a son of thunder. Such was this rude, stern, volcanic Tishbite as he comes to the rescue of his country; to champion a cause that seemed ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/chapman/god's_care_of_elijah.htm
... Millions of boulders cover the ground everywhere as far as the eye can reach. The terrible volcanic energy in this district ceased long before the historic period — how long no one can tell ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/geikie/chorazin.htm
... the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:… Volcanic dust makes rich soil. Splendid flowers are being grown in the matter from La Soufriere that ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/pub/benefits_of_afflictions.htm
... despot is like a house built on the sand, or like a city under which smoulder volcanic fires. There is no darker page in history than that which records the doings and sufferings ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/dinwiddle/conspiracy_and_fidelity.htm
... but we live in a latitude where in all our memory there has not been one severe volcanic disturbance. And yet we have seen fifty earthquakes. Here is a man who has been ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/pub/earthquakes.htm
... Let the waters..unto one place." 1. The method of their location. Perhaps by volcanic agency. 2. The degree of their proportion. If the sea were smaller, the ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/exell/the_sea_and_the_dry_land.htm
... 6.) We find matter around us of different degrees of density, from the light volcanic ash to the heavy metallic ore. But men of science tell us that no material substance ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/henry/deliverance_waiting_on_the_assured_hope_of_it.htm
... made, or was thought to be made, by perforating the successive lavas formed by the volcanic overflowings of Mount AEtna, that the earth must have existed, in its present form, ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/hawes/the_word_of_the_lord_commended_to_our_faith_by_its_being_a_tried_word.htm
... power to carry out his sentences. The holy fire of his indignation breaks forth like a volcanic flood. From one point of view evil men must be conceived as the enemies of God ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/johnson/sentence_passed.htm
... preceding! When denouncing Ephraim's sin and doom Hoses is obscure, abrupt, rugged, and volcanic; but in Hosea 14 . all is pellucid and restful and full of beauty. The ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/jerdan/return_to_god_its_beginnings.htm
... , laying its "foundations," touching its soil into verdure, and shaking it by volcanic fires. "He looketh on the earth and it trembleth," etc. 2. ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/pub/a_hymn_of_praise_to_god_in_nature.htm
... valley the celebrated Xerxes led his forces on his way to Greece. On account of the volcanic nature of its soil it became celebrated for the cultivation and the excellence of its vines. ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/thomas/the_words_of_christ_to_the_church_at_philadelphia.htm
