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Page 280
... earth , הארץ Haaaretz . This name for the earth literally means the runner or revolver from רצה Raatzch , " he ran " * ... At the time when the Scriptures were written , the earth was generally supposed to be the centre of the system ...
... earth , הארץ Haaaretz . This name for the earth literally means the runner or revolver from רצה Raatzch , " he ran " * ... At the time when the Scriptures were written , the earth was generally supposed to be the centre of the system ...
Page 281
... earth . Nor does אדם ever signify the earth or ground , but its derivative אדמה has this sense . It would be easy to accumulate other passages to the same effect ; but these will be quite sufficient to convince any reader who will ex ...
... earth . Nor does אדם ever signify the earth or ground , but its derivative אדמה has this sense . It would be easy to accumulate other passages to the same effect ; but these will be quite sufficient to convince any reader who will ex ...
Page 421
... earth round its axis : sometimes it denotes a re- volution of the earth round the sun , or what we call a natural year ( Numb . xiv . 34 ; Ezek . iv . 6 ; Dan . xii . 11 , 12 ; Rev. xi . 3 , 9 , xii . 6. ) : sometimes it denotes a whole ...
... earth round its axis : sometimes it denotes a re- volution of the earth round the sun , or what we call a natural year ( Numb . xiv . 34 ; Ezek . iv . 6 ; Dan . xii . 11 , 12 ; Rev. xi . 3 , 9 , xii . 6. ) : sometimes it denotes a whole ...
Page 422
... earth , wherein dwelleth righ- teousness . ' When the world which we now behold shall have passed away ; and when God shall create the promised new heavens and new earth ( in whatever precise sense these remarkable expressions ought ...
... earth , wherein dwelleth righ- teousness . ' When the world which we now behold shall have passed away ; and when God shall create the promised new heavens and new earth ( in whatever precise sense these remarkable expressions ought ...
Page 482
... earth was made to bring forth grass and herbs and trees . Let us now suppose that the length of the third day was more than six thousand years ; and what will be the consequence of such a supposition ? Doubtless the whole face of the earth ...
... earth was made to bring forth grass and herbs and trees . Let us now suppose that the length of the third day was more than six thousand years ; and what will be the consequence of such a supposition ? Doubtless the whole face of the earth ...
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Page 166 - ... among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind,; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 149 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 611 - Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to hearken than the fat of rams.
Page 16 - He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar ; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
Page 186 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Page 611 - God ; and I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them : and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good ; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Page 14 - Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight. And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.
Page 251 - Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Page 182 - For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men : as free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Page 529 - That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed...