The Old and New Testaments Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations: From the Declensions of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the Time of Christ, Volume 2Middlesex Bookstore, 1815 - Bible |
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... points than the vowel points , and such other as affect the text in the reading . But these two points at the end of every verse only terminate the period , without affecting at all either the words or the letters . But it a Asconius ...
... points than the vowel points , and such other as affect the text in the reading . But these two points at the end of every verse only terminate the period , without affecting at all either the words or the letters . But it a Asconius ...
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... vowel points , which are now in the Hebrew Bibles , is an harder question to be decided . It went without contradiction in the affirmative , till Elias Levita , a German Jew , wrote against it , about the beginning of the Reformation ...
... vowel points , which are now in the Hebrew Bibles , is an harder question to be decided . It went without contradiction in the affirmative , till Elias Levita , a German Jew , wrote against it , about the beginning of the Reformation ...
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... vowel points . This Elias and his followers say , was not done till after the finishing of the Talmud , about five hundred years after Christ ; but that till then the true reading , as to the vowels , was preserved only by oral ...
... vowel points . This Elias and his followers say , was not done till after the finishing of the Talmud , about five hundred years after Christ ; but that till then the true reading , as to the vowels , was preserved only by oral ...
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... vowel points ; which could not have hap- pened , had they been placed there by Ezra , and con- sequently been of the same authority with the letters ; for had they been so , they would certainly have been preserved in the synagogues ...
... vowel points ; which could not have hap- pened , had they been placed there by Ezra , and con- sequently been of the same authority with the letters ; for had they been so , they would certainly have been preserved in the synagogues ...
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... vowel points ; although in several places there are such special occasions and reasons for them so to have done , that it can scarce be thought possible they could have omitted it , if they had been in being , when those books were ...
... vowel points ; although in several places there are such special occasions and reasons for them so to have done , that it can scarce be thought possible they could have omitted it , if they had been in being , when those books were ...
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Page 408 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Page 86 - ... wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey...
Page 16 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy :
Page 173 - And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple, who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
Page 16 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks : the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Page 171 - Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense ; And the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Page 170 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house ; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Page 120 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Page 113 - ... from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, but writes them just below the rest of the word and draws a loop around them.
Page 104 - And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate ; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.