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... Egyptians , the first Zoroaster in Persia , Hercules in Greece , Orpheus in Thracia , Odin among the Northern nations , and many others , known rather by their celebrity than by any authentic history . Here I speak only of prophane ...
... Egyptians , the first Zoroaster in Persia , Hercules in Greece , Orpheus in Thracia , Odin among the Northern nations , and many others , known rather by their celebrity than by any authentic history . Here I speak only of prophane ...
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... Egyptian monarch had felt for her . The father of the Faithful here enjoined her the same lie as in Egypt : and thus his wife , passing for his sister , got more cattle and servants ; so that Sarah turned out no incon- siderable fortune ...
... Egyptian monarch had felt for her . The father of the Faithful here enjoined her the same lie as in Egypt : and thus his wife , passing for his sister , got more cattle and servants ; so that Sarah turned out no incon- siderable fortune ...
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... Egyptians , that people so famous for its laws , so wise , and so very devout as to worship crocodiles and onions , the Tintirites ate one of their enemies who had fallen into their hands . And this is not a tale on hear - say : this ...
... Egyptians , that people so famous for its laws , so wise , and so very devout as to worship crocodiles and onions , the Tintirites ate one of their enemies who had fallen into their hands . And this is not a tale on hear - say : this ...
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... Egyptians have been greatly cried up ; but I , for my part , scarce know a more contemptible people . There must ever have been both in their temper and government , some radi- cal vice , by which they have been kept in a per- petual ...
... Egyptians have been greatly cried up ; but I , for my part , scarce know a more contemptible people . There must ever have been both in their temper and government , some radi- cal vice , by which they have been kept in a per- petual ...
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... Egyptians to rise again without brains ? THE APOCALYPSE . JUSTIN MARTYR , who wrote in the year 170 of our æra , is the first that mentions the Apocalypse , attributing it , in his Dialogue with Tryphon , to the apostle John the ...
... Egyptians to rise again without brains ? THE APOCALYPSE . JUSTIN MARTYR , who wrote in the year 170 of our æra , is the first that mentions the Apocalypse , attributing it , in his Dialogue with Tryphon , to the apostle John the ...
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Page 181 - The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 8 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment...
Page 97 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Page 308 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 12 - ... thus saith the Lord God ; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Page 272 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 96 - For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law : but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Page 155 - But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Page 155 - Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love ; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
Page 113 - We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things, visible and invisible: And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father...