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... blood sprinkled over the lintel of the door by the Hebrews . It kept out the unseen de- stroyer , which could enter the unprotected door of the Egyptians without hindrance . The festival of the Anthesteria was in one of its THE RELIGION ...
... blood sprinkled over the lintel of the door by the Hebrews . It kept out the unseen de- stroyer , which could enter the unprotected door of the Egyptians without hindrance . The festival of the Anthesteria was in one of its THE RELIGION ...
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... blood of human victims . Long after Judaism had cast off its coarser garments , and prophets had proclaimed a purer and more joyous faith , the gloomy rites of early Hebraism obtrude themselves under the stress of national affliction or ...
... blood of human victims . Long after Judaism had cast off its coarser garments , and prophets had proclaimed a purer and more joyous faith , the gloomy rites of early Hebraism obtrude themselves under the stress of national affliction or ...
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... blood of the children of his votaries . The Greek religion never at- tained the sublime and spiritual heights finally reached by the Hebrew . It lingered in the lower parts , and for a longer period carried the remnants of its ancient ...
... blood of the children of his votaries . The Greek religion never at- tained the sublime and spiritual heights finally reached by the Hebrew . It lingered in the lower parts , and for a longer period carried the remnants of its ancient ...
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... blood . No modern Shakespeare could venture to make witches the active agents of his plot : they belong to a realm that has passed so far from our ken that the mind can neither enter it nor imagine its fictions as realities . Polyxene ...
... blood . No modern Shakespeare could venture to make witches the active agents of his plot : they belong to a realm that has passed so far from our ken that the mind can neither enter it nor imagine its fictions as realities . Polyxene ...
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... blood of a king's daughter . Men in an age of ignorance might imagine such evil of her , but she will show by a display of her power that they wrong her majesty and profane her worship . The king was merely demonstrating that he ...
... blood of a king's daughter . Men in an age of ignorance might imagine such evil of her , but she will show by a display of her power that they wrong her majesty and profane her worship . The king was merely demonstrating that he ...
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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.