The Popular Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature: Condensed from the Larger WorkGould and Lincoln, 1856 - 800 pages |
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... less valuable , and therefore less wor- hy to be recommended to almost any class of readers , than the edition which you now offer for the patronage and the benefit of the Christian public . From the examination which I have been able ...
... less valuable , and therefore less wor- hy to be recommended to almost any class of readers , than the edition which you now offer for the patronage and the benefit of the Christian public . From the examination which I have been able ...
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... less informed , less cautious , less endowed with strength of mind , became the more ready victim . The woman , being de- ceived , was in the transgression ; but Adam was not deceived ' ( 1 Tim . ii . 14 ) . He rushed knowingly and ...
... less informed , less cautious , less endowed with strength of mind , became the more ready victim . The woman , being de- ceived , was in the transgression ; but Adam was not deceived ' ( 1 Tim . ii . 14 ) . He rushed knowingly and ...
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... less than seventy of them ; and the barbarity of the war - usages in those early times is painfully shown by his cutting off all the thumbs and great toes of his prisoners , and allowing them no food but that which they gathered under ...
... less than seventy of them ; and the barbarity of the war - usages in those early times is painfully shown by his cutting off all the thumbs and great toes of his prisoners , and allowing them no food but that which they gathered under ...
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... less marked in those countries where the equalizing influences of high civilization lessen the peculiar privileges of the paternal character , and where the security and the well- observed laws by which estates descend and pro- perty is ...
... less marked in those countries where the equalizing influences of high civilization lessen the peculiar privileges of the paternal character , and where the security and the well- observed laws by which estates descend and pro- perty is ...
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... less severity than if the inferior offence had been included , to punish the crime with death . It is still so punished wherever the practice of po- lygamy has similarly operated in limiting the crime - not , perhaps , that the law ...
... less severity than if the inferior offence had been included , to punish the crime with death . It is still so punished wherever the practice of po- lygamy has similarly operated in limiting the crime - not , perhaps , that the law ...
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Abimelech Abraham Acts Ahaz altar Ammonites Amorites ancient animals Apostle appears Arabia Arabs Asia Assyria Babylon called Canaan Christ Christian Chron church comp Damascus David death denote Deut divine East Edom Egypt Egyptian epistle Euphrates Exod Ezek Ezra father favour Greek Hebrew Hebron high-priest holy inhabitants Israel Israelites Jehovah Jeroboam Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews Joab Jordan Josephus Josh Judæa Judah Judg king land latter Lord Luke Matt means ment mentioned Meroë Moses mountains nations natural occurs Palestine passages Paul period Persian persons Philistines possession present priests probably prophet reign rendered Roman sacred Scripture seems Solomon species stone supposed Syria temple Testament thou tion town tree tribe tribe of Judah viii word worship writers xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxvii