A Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature, Volume 1John Kitto Adam and Charles Black, 1845 |
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... doubt that the Jews commemorate that event by a fast on the 9th of Ab , yet the seventh is the date given for it in 2 Kings xxv . 8 ( where , however , the Syriac and Arabic versions read the ninth ) , and the tenth that assigned in Jer ...
... doubt that the Jews commemorate that event by a fast on the 9th of Ab , yet the seventh is the date given for it in 2 Kings xxv . 8 ( where , however , the Syriac and Arabic versions read the ninth ) , and the tenth that assigned in Jer ...
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... doubt that Nau is right in the conjecture that they were designed to afford cool underground re- treats to the inhabitants during the heat of the day in summer , when the climate of the plain is intensely hot . This provision might not ...
... doubt that Nau is right in the conjecture that they were designed to afford cool underground re- treats to the inhabitants during the heat of the day in summer , when the climate of the plain is intensely hot . This provision might not ...
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... doubt not that this phrase , " that it might be fulfilled , " and the like were used first in quoting real prophecies , but that this , by long use , sunk in its value , and was more vulgarly applied , so that at last it was given to ...
... doubt not that this phrase , " that it might be fulfilled , " and the like were used first in quoting real prophecies , but that this , by long use , sunk in its value , and was more vulgarly applied , so that at last it was given to ...
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... doubt ; but why should that intention be founded upon a mythic allegory ? Is it not taught much better , and impressed much more forcibly , by its stand- ing not on a fiction , but on a fact ? We have seen that , under the simple ...
... doubt ; but why should that intention be founded upon a mythic allegory ? Is it not taught much better , and impressed much more forcibly , by its stand- ing not on a fiction , but on a fact ? We have seen that , under the simple ...
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... doubt are so many warn- * In Isaiah xiv . 29 , and xxx . 6 , the epithet the naja haje of Egypt , the undoubted Ihh - nuphi , | globe - it well may have received the name of cneph , or agathodæmon of ancient Egypt , and saraph , and may ...
... doubt are so many warn- * In Isaiah xiv . 29 , and xxx . 6 , the epithet the naja haje of Egypt , the undoubted Ihh - nuphi , | globe - it well may have received the name of cneph , or agathodæmon of ancient Egypt , and saraph , and may ...
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Page 62 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Page 22 - Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 144 - And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house ; and putting his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, the Lord (even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou earnest) hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
Page 270 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 96 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 274 - And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Page 218 - ... of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 59 - ... the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.
Page 234 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Page 387 - But I say unto you, It shall ,be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell : for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.