 | Gilbert Gerard - Bible - 1823 - 462 pages
...Scripture, the knowledge of these symbols will serve for determining their meaning. Warburton, ib. Num. xxiv. 17. "There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel." Hierogl. "a god — a king." 103. The invention of alphabetical writing has always been, with reason,... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 458 pages
...of that Prince, of whom (as they might easily have heard) it had been so very long foretold, " There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel -J-." And it is a very remarkable circumstance, that one of the ancient commentators on the Timaeus... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - God - 1823 - 478 pages
...xxiv. 17, 19.) I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : There shall PROP, come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out X1V1_ of Israel ; out of Jacob shall come he that shall ' have dominion ; — are words so put in his... | |
 | Henry Martyn - Christianity and other religions - 1824 - 736 pages
...from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and to him shall the gathering of the people be."f "There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel.". . ." Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion," &c.J ''The Lord thy God will raise up unto... | |
 | Christian life - 1876 - 352 pages
...come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch." — Jeremiah xxiii. 5. " There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel." — Numbers xxiv. 17. " I (Jesus) am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning... | |
 | Voltaire - 1824 - 432 pages
...had no doubt of the prophecies of Balaam, of which these words are found in Numbers : — -f" There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel." But Balaam was no more a Jew than Zoroaster, since he said himself that he came from Aram — from... | |
 | Voltaire - Philosophy - 1824 - 440 pages
...had no doubt of the prophecies of Balaam, of which these words are found in Numbers : — f " There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel." But Balaam was no more a Jew than Zoroaster, since he ' said himself that he came from Aram — from... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...He is made our King and Head, to encounter and conquer our Enemies, to rule for us, and in us. THERE shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel.-Nnmb. xxiv. 17. Gen. xlix. 10. Yet have I set my King (or mine anointed) upon my holy hill... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...He is made our King and Head, to encounter and conquer our Enemies, to rule for us, and la us. THERE shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of IsraeL-Nnmb. xxiv. 1 7. Gen. xlix. 10. Yet have I set iny King (or mine anointed) upon my holy hill... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1825 - 1092 pages
...meaning to the place. Again in Numbers, ch. xxiv. v. 17- we have the famous prophecy of Balaam : " There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel," and in Isaiah, ch. xi. v. 1. it is written. " And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,... | |
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I shall see him, but not n'ow; I shall behold him, but not nigh; There shall come a Star out of Jacob, And a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite the corners of Moab, And destroy all the children of Sheth. 
