...life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live,' chap. iv. 3 ; or, in this of Elijah, ' It is enough, now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers!' lKingsxix.4. It is this contrast of ideas that we will endeavour to reconcile, for in this point of...

...went a day's journey into the wilderness anil came and sat down under a juniper-tree, and requested that he might die, and said: It is enough, now, O...away my life, for I am not better than my fathers. — 1 Kings xiv. 3, 4. HE marks not the beauty of opening day, Nor slackens his speed for the noon-tide...

...1—4.7.10.12. Solomon failed very greatly. — 1 Kings xi. 1, &c. When Elijah the prophet was in trouble, he said, It is enough : now, O Lord, take away my life ; for I am no better than my fathers. — 1 Kings xix. 4. And Jehoshaphat walked, &c. doing that which was right...

....his servant there. time. And they did it tbe second time. And he said, Do if the third time. 4 ?. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and And they did if the third time. sat down under a juniper-tree : and ha Ji And tbe water ran round about...

...his life, and carae to Beer-sheba, which belongeth toJudah, and left his servant there. 4 IT But be himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: and he requested for himself that he might die: and said, It is enough: now, О LORD,...

...James, and John, in the Garden — Tarry ye here, while I go and pray yonder. However this was, " he went a day's journey into the Wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree :" and, fatigued with journeying and hunger ; and harassed with forebodings ; and despairing...

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...ready to despair, to fly from our posts, to relinquish our work altogether, and to say with Elijah, " It is enough, now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers." But who is that presumptuous servant that expects to be " above his Lord ? " When Christ himself, preaching...

...prophet Elijah took refuge in the wilderness of Beersheba, to avoid the persecution of King Ahab. " He went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree : And as he lay and slept under a juniper-tree, behold then an angel touched him, and...