...doun contented with the event i 19 this may be very useful still, if not superstitiausly performed. A. brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city : and [their] contentions [are] like the bars of a castle : the nearness of the relation heightens...

...much as divisions do, so, when once they are made, there is nothing more hard to be composed again. A Brother offended, is harder to be won, than a strong City; and their, contentions are like the barrs of a Castle*. For as no bond is so strong, as that of Religion...

...world standeth, lest I make my brother ts offend.' And the wise-man seems to give the reason, saying, A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and their contentions like the bars of a castle. Yet, horresco referens, these presbyterians, like...

...world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.' And the wise-man seems to give the reason, saying, A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and their contentions like the bars of a castle. Yet, htirresco referent, these presbyterians, like...

...soul, Isaiah lix. 2 ; a contention with him seems to fasten the bar of infidelity; as it is written, " A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle," Prov. xviii. 19. If a contention with Christ...

...extent of the mischief which his partiality had effected; and as little did he appear to understand that "a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city!" Behold, this lad in whom all his father's affections centre, setting out from the vale of Hebron! Already...

...this there may be something more in the emphasis of the following passage than has been remarked. " A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle," not merely hard to be removed on account of their...

...fool enter into contention, and God understands it as a voice from the back, calling for strokes. " A Brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and a contention with him is like the bars of a castle ; " which hardens^the heart, and strengthens...

...engage us heartily to exercise this virtue, and are too frequently reminded of the wise man's saying, " a brother offended, is harder to be won than a strong city." The causes of this are, the natural backwardness of the offender to make a candid and ingenuous confession...

...cometh and searcheth him. 18 The lot cause th contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty. 19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city : and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. 20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the...