An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, Volume 4E. Littell, 1825 - Bible |
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... Bishop Newton's Dissertations , vol . i . diss . v — “ Though God had probably re- jected Balaam as an apostate prophet , he deigned to employ him on this signal oc- casion as the herald of the divine oracles ; to illustrate the ...
... Bishop Newton's Dissertations , vol . i . diss . v — “ Though God had probably re- jected Balaam as an apostate prophet , he deigned to employ him on this signal oc- casion as the herald of the divine oracles ; to illustrate the ...
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... Bishop Lowth remarks , is singularly magnificent : the plan and conduct of the poem is just and natural , and well accommodated to the subject , for it is almost in the order of an historical narration . It embraces a variety of ...
... Bishop Lowth remarks , is singularly magnificent : the plan and conduct of the poem is just and natural , and well accommodated to the subject , for it is almost in the order of an historical narration . It embraces a variety of ...
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... Bishops Patrick and 1 Herodotus and Thucydides , the two most antient profane historians extant , were contemporary with Ezra and Nehemiah , and could not write with any cer- tainty of events much before their own time . Bishop ...
... Bishops Patrick and 1 Herodotus and Thucydides , the two most antient profane historians extant , were contemporary with Ezra and Nehemiah , and could not write with any cer- tainty of events much before their own time . Bishop ...
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... Bishop Patrick has referred the beginning of this history to the judicature of Gideon , about the year of the world 2759 , at which time a famine is related to have happened . ( Judg . vi . 3—6 . ) 2 Considerable difficulty has arisen ...
... Bishop Patrick has referred the beginning of this history to the judicature of Gideon , about the year of the world 2759 , at which time a famine is related to have happened . ( Judg . vi . 3—6 . ) 2 Considerable difficulty has arisen ...
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... Bishop Tomline , Dr. Gray , and the very accurate chronologer Dr. Hales . ( See Gray's Key , p . 227. Bishop Tomline's Elements , vol . i . p . 93. Dr. Hales's Analysis , vol . ii . book i . pp . 524. et seq . ) We may therefore ...
... Bishop Tomline , Dr. Gray , and the very accurate chronologer Dr. Hales . ( See Gray's Key , p . 227. Bishop Tomline's Elements , vol . i . p . 93. Dr. Hales's Analysis , vol . ii . book i . pp . 524. et seq . ) We may therefore ...
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Page 288 - Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Page 331 - If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.
Page 318 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Page 239 - And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
Page 434 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 433 - In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Page 324 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 266 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
Page 260 - And all the city was moved, and the people ran together : and they took Paul and drew him out of the temple. And forthwith the doors were shut.
Page 34 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.