...wretchedness of that devoted city, he burst out in the pathetic exclamation: " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, them that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings! and ye would not....

...language, and places him. self in the position of the God of Israel: " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye...

...hid from thine eyes;" and in that other compassionate exclamation of his, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee ; how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye...

...from city to city. All these things shall be done in this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye...

...reproach; but mark, how instantly it is redeemed from the ordinary character of those sentiments — " thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee ; how often would I have gathered thy children even as a hen gathereth her brood under her wing, but ye would not !"...

...arms of a dying Savior. " Turn ye — turn ye — why will ye die?" " Oh! Jerusalem, Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye...

...parent, we find the blessed Jesus thus lamenting over the beloved city, " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee ; how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and...

...especially, when, drawing nigh the city, he wept over it, and said, " Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are...gathered thy children together, — and ye would not;" rjOEXrjrfa — xtu flux r$eXi,ea<rs. Now if you say, they would, but he would not, you represent him...

...meaning another; as pretending the love which he had not. Him, in " whose mouth was no guile," you make full of deceit, void of common sincerity ; —...drawing nigh the city, he wept over it, and said, " Oh Jerusalem. Jerusalem, thon that killest the prophets, and s tones! them that are nent unto thee,...

...while you have the light, lost darkness come upon you," Jolm xii. 35. " О Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou ed. "There was a little city besieged bv a great king, who built great bulwarks agai I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and yo...