A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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Thomson.

BRIGHTNESS.

Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.—II. Samuel, xxii. 13.

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light.—Habakkuk, iii. 3, 4.

Then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.—II. Thessalonians, ii. 8.

Impotent words, weak lines, that strive in vain,

In vain, alas! to tell so heavenly sight!

So heavenly sight as none can greater feign,

Feign what he can, that seems of greatest might: