unfruitfulness

The sin of unfruitfulness is punished with the plague of unfruitfulness.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Else we shall come under the condemnation, 'Nothing but leaves,' and shall fall under the punishment of the continuance of unfruitfulness, which is our crime as well as our punishment.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868

Bitter irony, illustrating the "unfruitfulness" (Job 15: 34) of the wicked.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

One is that, as he told his chaplain, Dr. Rawley, late in life, he had discovered, as far back as his Cambridge days, the "unfruitfulness" of

Bacon John Morley 1852

Origen said: “It is demons which produce famine, unfruitfulness, corruptions of the air, pestilences; they hover concealed in clouds in the lower atmosphere, and are attracted by the blood and incense which the heathen offer to them as gods.”

Cornell ID advisor on Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Trinity College, Cambridge, felt the unfruitfulness of this method of search after truth.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

Soon after a plague broke out, causing sudden death without any previous sickness; it infected also the corn with unfruitfulness, and cattle with barrenness; there rained blood, too, in the city; so that, to their actual sufferings, fear of the wrath of the gods was added.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

All our past failure, all our past inefficiency and insufficiency, all our past unfruitfulness in service, can be banished now, once and for all, if we will only give prayer its proper place.

The Kneeling Christian Unknown Christian 1971

The shame of her unfruitfulness distressed her deeply.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

He reproached the unfortunate Joachim loudly and before the others for his unfruitfulness, refused to admit him and sent him, in disgrace, to an alcove enclosed with gratings.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954