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... Lord of the Soul ? Their individual character , their history , their ideals , and their destiny are all implicit therein . The development of religion even in the lowest tribes of mankind is luminous with instruction , for it shows the ...
... Lord of the Soul ? Their individual character , their history , their ideals , and their destiny are all implicit therein . The development of religion even in the lowest tribes of mankind is luminous with instruction , for it shows the ...
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... Lords 1689 , been passed , there would have been less need for our two centuries of prayers and penitential confessions over " our unhappy divisions . " Religion aesires the amelioration and exter- mination of the causes of human ...
... Lords 1689 , been passed , there would have been less need for our two centuries of prayers and penitential confessions over " our unhappy divisions . " Religion aesires the amelioration and exter- mination of the causes of human ...
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... Lord of Hosts , feels it . " If I were hungry I would not tell thee , " he is made to say in a psalm belonging to the period when more spiritual con- ceptions were dawning : " I will take no bullock out of thine house " ; he will take ...
... Lord of Hosts , feels it . " If I were hungry I would not tell thee , " he is made to say in a psalm belonging to the period when more spiritual con- ceptions were dawning : " I will take no bullock out of thine house " ; he will take ...
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... Lord of the Trident , who was one of the gods of the Under World , as the black bulls upon his altars show . ( Od . iii , 6. ) Curious indications of the human element in these sacrifices have been perpetuated in the religious practices ...
... Lord of the Trident , who was one of the gods of the Under World , as the black bulls upon his altars show . ( Od . iii , 6. ) Curious indications of the human element in these sacrifices have been perpetuated in the religious practices ...
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... Lord of the Sky , whose throne was on the high mountains , and the gods of the dark Under World , shrouded in gloom , stained with blood , worshipped in horror and fear . The emblem of the one was the eagle , of the other the serpent ...
... Lord of the Sky , whose throne was on the high mountains , and the gods of the dark Under World , shrouded in gloom , stained with blood , worshipped in horror and fear . The emblem of the one was the eagle , of the other the serpent ...
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Page 12 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Page 23 - Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
Page 84 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna : for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Page 168 - And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul...
Page 157 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
Page 157 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 23 - And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Page 12 - For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
Page 105 - All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Page 117 - They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment.