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... Jehovah . Just as accuracy in statement is a modern virtue , so a fixed price in selling is both recent and Occidental . No trader in the East expects his first price to be the final one , nor does the buyer expect his original offer to ...
... Jehovah . Just as accuracy in statement is a modern virtue , so a fixed price in selling is both recent and Occidental . No trader in the East expects his first price to be the final one , nor does the buyer expect his original offer to ...
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... Jehovah is prince , to Sarah , which means princess . Abraham and Sarah are two of the very few characters in the Bible of whom it is recorded that they burst out laughing . There is almost no laugh- ter in the Bible , except the ...
... Jehovah is prince , to Sarah , which means princess . Abraham and Sarah are two of the very few characters in the Bible of whom it is recorded that they burst out laughing . There is almost no laugh- ter in the Bible , except the ...
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... statesman was condemned was the finest and most patriotic utterance of his life . The boy Samuel was dedicated by his mother Hannah to Jehovah's service ; he became a great religious RUTH , SAMUEL , JONATHAN , ETC. 107.
... statesman was condemned was the finest and most patriotic utterance of his life . The boy Samuel was dedicated by his mother Hannah to Jehovah's service ; he became a great religious RUTH , SAMUEL , JONATHAN , ETC. 107.
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William Lyon Phelps. Hannah to Jehovah's service ; he became a great religious leader , never deviating from the path of sanctity and rectitude . Yet to me he is not a sympa- thetic figure ; he had more holiness than charm . There is ...
William Lyon Phelps. Hannah to Jehovah's service ; he became a great religious leader , never deviating from the path of sanctity and rectitude . Yet to me he is not a sympa- thetic figure ; he had more holiness than charm . There is ...
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... Jehovah , but probably for more practical purposes . Saul was always afraid of Samuel ; he had the attitude of a bad boy toward a severe private tutor ; but the rea- son he gave Samuel for sparing the cattle is signifi- cant , coming so ...
... Jehovah , but probably for more practical purposes . Saul was always afraid of Samuel ; he had the attitude of a bad boy toward a severe private tutor ; but the rea- son he gave Samuel for sparing the cattle is signifi- cant , coming so ...
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Page 56 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 219 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 123 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Page 11 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 11 - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee ! 2 Though, like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone ; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee, — Nearer to Thee...
Page 259 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Page 236 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 59 - And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites : and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over ; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite ? If he said, Nay ; then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth : and he said Sibboleth : for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan : and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Page 8 - And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine : and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God...
Page 169 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown.