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... notice the clear and direct arguments and proofs , which were to be derived from those parts of the sacred history which scepticism itself could scarcely venture to attack : -thus suffering the adversary of revealed truth to lead its ...
... notice the clear and direct arguments and proofs , which were to be derived from those parts of the sacred history which scepticism itself could scarcely venture to attack : -thus suffering the adversary of revealed truth to lead its ...
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... notice of the zealous supporters of the divine code . The history of Ezra describes in the strongest colours the feel- ings of grief and alarm which this discovery excited , the vast numbers who were involved in this guilt , and the ...
... notice of the zealous supporters of the divine code . The history of Ezra describes in the strongest colours the feel- ings of grief and alarm which this discovery excited , the vast numbers who were involved in this guilt , and the ...
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... notices this government as an innovation which the people would intro- duce , after the example of the surrounding nations and it lays the kings under restraints which were equally irksome to their sensuality and their ambition . " He ...
... notices this government as an innovation which the people would intro- duce , after the example of the surrounding nations and it lays the kings under restraints which were equally irksome to their sensuality and their ambition . " He ...
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... notice , so that nothing about them is known , but that they were undistinguished from the rest of the Levitical tribe . How different is all this from the embel- lishments of fiction or the exaggerations of vanity ? How strongly does ...
... notice , so that nothing about them is known , but that they were undistinguished from the rest of the Levitical tribe . How different is all this from the embel- lishments of fiction or the exaggerations of vanity ? How strongly does ...
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... notices the very natural circumstance , " that when the mother of Moses " saw he was a goodly child , she hid him three months . " On this single expression , Josephus raises the most extravagant description of the distinguished and ...
... notices the very natural circumstance , " that when the mother of Moses " saw he was a goodly child , she hid him three months . " On this single expression , Josephus raises the most extravagant description of the distinguished and ...
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Page 89 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 373 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Page 337 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 474 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground : and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Page 422 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 392 - Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: Wherefore I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
Page 116 - And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Page 352 - For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Page 301 - And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land: for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Page 120 - The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.