_Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity._
ENVIRONMENTS
These were certainly close environments; but whence had they come?
From still closer ones, like those of pride and enervating habits
among a luxurious people; from neglect of the higher demands of the
spiritual life; from living too... [ Continue Reading ]
_Which camp in the hedges in the cold day._
LOCUSTS AFFECTED BY THE COLD
Paxton and others have remarked that there is much difficulty in this
passage; but to anyone who has attentively watched the habits of the
locusts it is not only plain, but very striking. In the evenings, as
soon as the air be... [ Continue Reading ]