Which preposition to use with exhortations
And so Adam addresses an exhortation to his Eve: "Don't buy bread, bake it; don't buy flour, grind your own; don't buy soap, make it; don't buy canned, preserved, or dried food, carry on the processes yourself; don't buy fruits and vegetables, raise them.
His apostles, trained in the practices of the synagogue, were perfected by the example and the exhortations of Christ.
Why the incoming President's advance exhortation in favor of the decision?
Presently he goes off to the wicket, with a last exhortation from Tom to play steady and keep his bat straight.
But they had no more effect than the reiterated exhortations with which nurses confuse the poor heads of babies, when they require them to "shake a day-dayshake a day-day!" Mrs. Morland now interfered, and begged that the sleepy little boy might be excused; on which he screamed out that "he wasn't sleepy at all, and would not go to bed ever.
The Lord gave me a word of exhortation for them, and helped me to utter it in French.
He was accordingly perplexed when, after a brief exhortation by the auctioneer, discreetly noncommittal as to the antecedents of the canvas"attributed to Corot"Prince Victor, who had been straining forward like a hound in leash, half rose in his eagerness to offer: "One thousand guineas!"
Fare ye well awhile: I'll end my exhortation after dinner.
I delivered on Lord's Day a religious and political exhortation on the present posture of public affairs before a vast congregation of all ranks.
On no subject were the apostles more urgent in their exhortations than to a life of purity.
" Mr. Philip Nye's Exhortation at the taking of the Covenant, September 29th, 1649, p. 2.
For, after I had been about five or six years awakened, some of the ablest of the saints with us desired me, with much earnestness, to take a hand sometimes in one of the meetings, and to speak a word of exhortation unto them.
The preaching of her favorite ministers seemed to him harsh and rigid, while she regarded Quaker exhortations as insipid and formal.
Sometimes there is a prayer, then another, then an "exhortation"Quakers have no sermons; at other times an exhortation without any prayer; now and then a prayer without any exhortation; and occasionally they have neither the one nor the otherthey fall into a state of profound silence, keep astonishingly quiet ever so long, with their eyes shut, and then walk out.