Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 23-241857 |
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... worship . Great princes , wise legislators , inventors of useful arts , magnanimous chiefs who had been the objects of universal admiration during their lives , became the objects of adoration after death . These deified heroes were ...
... worship . Great princes , wise legislators , inventors of useful arts , magnanimous chiefs who had been the objects of universal admiration during their lives , became the objects of adoration after death . These deified heroes were ...
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... worship consisted of songs of praise and thanksgiving , pray- ers and supplications , offerings and sacrifices , and the rites of augury and divination . Much importance was attached to offerings . These differed in degree and nature ...
... worship consisted of songs of praise and thanksgiving , pray- ers and supplications , offerings and sacrifices , and the rites of augury and divination . Much importance was attached to offerings . These differed in degree and nature ...
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... worship , but little is known . " There is reason to believe , " says Dr Lindsay Alexander in his interesting little work on Iona , " that they attached much import- ance to the ceremony of going thrice round their sacred circle from ...
... worship , but little is known . " There is reason to believe , " says Dr Lindsay Alexander in his interesting little work on Iona , " that they attached much import- ance to the ceremony of going thrice round their sacred circle from ...
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... worship . " A circle of stones , " says Dr Alexander , “ ' generally of vast size , and surrounding an area of from 20 feet to 30 yards in diameter , constituted their sacred place , and in the centre of this stood the crom- leach or ...
... worship . " A circle of stones , " says Dr Alexander , “ ' generally of vast size , and surrounding an area of from 20 feet to 30 yards in diameter , constituted their sacred place , and in the centre of this stood the crom- leach or ...
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... worship to the religion of the Phoenicians , that some have endeavoured to establish an identity , or to show that the former , in its general characteristics , was borrowed exclusively from the latter . But Druidism , abstracted from ...
... worship to the religion of the Phoenicians , that some have endeavoured to establish an identity , or to show that the former , in its general characteristics , was borrowed exclusively from the latter . But Druidism , abstracted from ...
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Page 34 - God commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Page 157 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Page 238 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 33 - The Lord bless thee, and keep thee : the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee : the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Page 33 - Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried, He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead, He ascended into heaven, And sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty ; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
Page 384 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 157 - I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; "and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 238 - And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death.
Page 229 - For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life...
Page 186 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt : for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.