Within fourteen generations, the royal blood of the kings of Judah ran in the veins of plain Joseph, a painful carpenter.—Fuller, Holy War, b. v. c. 29.
I think we have some as painful magistrates as ever was in England.—Latimer, Sermons, p. 142.
Painfulness by feeble means shall be able to gain that which in the plenty of more forcible instruments is through sloth and negligence lost.—Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity, b. v. § 22.
O the holiness of their living, and painfulness of their preaching!—Fuller, Holy State, b. ii. c. 6.
Whoever would be truly thankful, let him live in some honest vocation, and therein bestow himself faithfully and painfully.—Sanderson, Sermons, vol. i. p. 251.
Palestine. This is now a name for the entire Holy Land; but in the Authorized Version ‘Palestine,’ or ‘Palestina,’ as it is written three times out of the four on which it occurs, is used in a far more restricted sense, namely, as equivalent to Philistia, that narrow strip of coast occupied by the Philistines. This a close examination of the several passages (see Wright’s Dictionary of the Bible) will make abundantly clear. And it is also invariably so employed by Milton; thus see, besides the passage quoted below, Samson Agonistes, 144, and On the Nativity, 199.
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken.—Isai. xiv. 29. (A.V.)
Such their [the Philistines’] puissance, that from them the Greeks and Latins called all this land Palestina, because the Philistines lived on the sea coast, most obvious to the notice of foreigners.—Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine, ii. 10, 23.
Dagon his name, sea-monster, upward man
And downward fish: yet had his temple high