The Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, Volume 1John Kitto Newman & Ivison, 1851 |
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... Roman Catholics , with special regard to the variety of opinions enter- tained by this church on some doctrinal points , from her foundation in the second century , in comparison with those held in the fourth , fifth , and sixth ...
... Roman Catholics , with special regard to the variety of opinions enter- tained by this church on some doctrinal points , from her foundation in the second century , in comparison with those held in the fourth , fifth , and sixth ...
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... Roman army against the city with their image - crowned standards , to which idolatrous honours were paid , and which the Jews regarded as idols . The unexpected retreat and discom- fiture of the Roman forces afforded such as were ...
... Roman army against the city with their image - crowned standards , to which idolatrous honours were paid , and which the Jews regarded as idols . The unexpected retreat and discom- fiture of the Roman forces afforded such as were ...
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... Romans ; but it cannot be very accurately stated in how many centuries the system of vowel - points and accentuation ... Roman writers call it ' AK , ACE ( Strab . xvi . 877 ; Diod . Sic . xix . 93 ; C. Nep . xiv . 5 ) ; but it was even ...
... Romans ; but it cannot be very accurately stated in how many centuries the system of vowel - points and accentuation ... Roman writers call it ' AK , ACE ( Strab . xvi . 877 ; Diod . Sic . xix . 93 ; C. Nep . xiv . 5 ) ; but it was even ...
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... Romans the usual number of guests on each couch was three , making nine for the three couches , equal to the number ... Roman custom , and as such must be described . The dinner - bed , or triclinium , stood in the middle of the dining ...
... Romans the usual number of guests on each couch was three , making nine for the three couches , equal to the number ... Roman custom , and as such must be described . The dinner - bed , or triclinium , stood in the middle of the dining ...
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... Romans they were at first ( after the Punic war ) of rude form and materials , and covered with mattresses stuffed with rushes or straw ; mattresses of hair and wool were introduced at a later period . At first the wooden frames were ...
... Romans they were at first ( after the Punic war ) of rude form and materials , and covered with mattresses stuffed with rushes or straw ; mattresses of hair and wool were introduced at a later period . At first the wooden frames were ...
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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 24 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
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 27 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
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 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 75 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 322 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 325 - For an Angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
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.