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... give them substance and force . They are too remote to be real beings of flesh and 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 ...
... give them substance and force . They are too remote to be real beings of flesh and 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 ...
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... give . οὐδένα γὰρ οἶμαι δαιμόνων εἶναι κακόν . Iph . in T. 391 . It is a sign that the worshipper is seeking after a god at least equal to himself , and not more savage nor more cruel . The Greek mind had a vision , as it had of most ...
... give . οὐδένα γὰρ οἶμαι δαιμόνων εἶναι κακόν . Iph . in T. 391 . It is a sign that the worshipper is seeking after a god at least equal to himself , and not more savage nor more cruel . The Greek mind had a vision , as it had of most ...
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... gives that inter- pretation of them , and it is manifestly unsatisfactory . It is an inventive guess as fictional as the name of the man and the cups of the god . It fails in the thing it set out to explain the physical ritual is not ...
... gives that inter- pretation of them , and it is manifestly unsatisfactory . It is an inventive guess as fictional as the name of the man and the cups of the god . It fails in the thing it set out to explain the physical ritual is not ...
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... gives the explanation , if any were needed , of what was burned . The scholiast writes λοιμοῦ λέγω , and that vitiates the testimony in the eyes of Professor Murray : it shows that it came from a bad period ; besides , it is wrong ...
... gives the explanation , if any were needed , of what was burned . The scholiast writes λοιμοῦ λέγω , and that vitiates the testimony in the eyes of Professor Murray : it shows that it came from a bad period ; besides , it is wrong ...
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... give to our archæo- logical problems . Whatever may have been the practice in later years , there must have been a time when it was no mimetic or magical ceremonial but a veritable human sacrifice . Whether changed or unchanged in its ...
... give to our archæo- logical problems . Whatever may have been the practice in later years , there must have been a time when it was no mimetic or magical ceremonial but a veritable human sacrifice . Whether changed or unchanged in its ...
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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.