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182 correct and expressive of all languages, not only walking but standing has a figurative meaning, and that according to this meaning it involves in it lessons of the deepest and most important signification.

I shall now, lastly, bespeak your attention to the term.

Open then your again, and let the following passages have their due influence on your mind:—“Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of, and wept, and  there before the , and fasted that day until evening,” [Judges xx. 26.]. Again, “O, Thou knowest my and mine up-rising, Thou understandest my thoughts afar of,” [Psalm cxxix. 2.]. Again, “Therefore have I cried concerning this, their strength is to ,” [Isaiah xxx. 7.]. Again, “Thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to with them,” ['Jer. xvi. 8.] Again, “Then shall he stand and feed in the strength of, in the majesty of the name of the  his ; and they shall abide (shall ),” ['Micah v. 4.]. Again, “Comde down and in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon,  on the ground:  thou silent, and enter into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: she saith in her heart, I shall not  as a widow,” [Isaiah xlvii. 1, 5, 8.]. In like manner