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Cuirass and Corslet ; Greek , Roman , Barbarian , Wild Ass , Syrian Goddess Atergatis , Athens , Various Attitudes of Adoration , • • · LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . • Hippopotamus , Bellows , Pool of Bethesda , Bird Cages ,.
Cuirass and Corslet ; Greek , Roman , Barbarian , Wild Ass , Syrian Goddess Atergatis , Athens , Various Attitudes of Adoration , • • · LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . • Hippopotamus , Bellows , Pool of Bethesda , Bird Cages ,.
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And this may with probability be referred to the advance of the 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 ...
And this may with probability be referred to the advance of the 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 ...
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But it is best known to us as a Roman custom , and as such must be described . ... Among the Romans the usual number of guests on each couch was three , making nine for the three couches , but sometimes there were four to each couch .
But it is best known to us as a Roman custom , and as such must be described . ... Among the Romans the usual number of guests on each couch was three , making nine for the three couches , but sometimes there were four to each couch .
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Even among the 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 .
Even among the 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 .
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Some few historians have maintained the genuineness of these letters , but most writers , including the great majority of Roman Catholic divines , reject them as spurious ; and there is good reason to believe that the whole chapter of ...
Some few historians have maintained the genuineness of these letters , but most writers , including the great majority of Roman Catholic divines , reject them as spurious ; and there is good reason to believe that the whole chapter of ...
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Page 302 - And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed, and went behind them ; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them : And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel ; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these : so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 370 - And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Page 302 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page 96 - ... 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 228 - In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Page 444 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 26 - 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 278 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 324 - And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you...
Page 282 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening ; and he drank of the brook.
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| Title | The Popular Cyclopadia of Biblical Literature: Condensed from the Larger Work |
| Author | John Kitto |
| Publisher | Gould and Lincoln, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 23 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 800 pages |
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