Oriental Customs, Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures: By an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Especially the Jews, Therein Alluded to : Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics |
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... me , else I could have made the same enquiry ; but I heard not only this servant , but many eye witnesses , often speak of the Abyssinians eat- ing raw meat . " No.5 . - ix.21.And he drank of the wine and GENESIS . 7.
... me , else I could have made the same enquiry ; but I heard not only this servant , but many eye witnesses , often speak of the Abyssinians eat- ing raw meat . " No.5 . - ix.21.And he drank of the wine and GENESIS . 7.
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... Speaking of the people who wese assembled together at this time in the house , he says , ( Travels , vol . i . p . 148. ) " the great people among them came , and , after joining hands , repeated a kind of prayer , of about two minutes ...
... Speaking of the people who wese assembled together at this time in the house , he says , ( Travels , vol . i . p . 148. ) " the great people among them came , and , after joining hands , repeated a kind of prayer , of about two minutes ...
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... speak in allusion to the popular notion of the two astronomical GATES , celestial and terrestrial , when in Matt . vii . 13. he said , Enter ye in at the strait GATE ; for wide is the GATE , and broad is the way that leadeth to ...
... speak in allusion to the popular notion of the two astronomical GATES , celestial and terrestrial , when in Matt . vii . 13. he said , Enter ye in at the strait GATE ; for wide is the GATE , and broad is the way that leadeth to ...
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... speaking to the baker , he adds , that Pharaoh shall lift up thine head from off thee , i . e . shall order thy name to be struck out of the list of his servants , by taking thy peg out of the socket . " Bibliotheca Bibl . in locum ...
... speaking to the baker , he adds , that Pharaoh shall lift up thine head from off thee , i . e . shall order thy name to be struck out of the list of his servants , by taking thy peg out of the socket . " Bibliotheca Bibl . in locum ...
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... speaking of the Egyptian repositories of the dead , having given an ac- count of several niches that are found there , says , must not be imagined , that the bodies deposited in these gloomy apartments were all enclosed in chests , and ...
... speaking of the Egyptian repositories of the dead , having given an ac- count of several niches that are found there , says , must not be imagined , that the bodies deposited in these gloomy apartments were all enclosed in chests , and ...
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