The Connection Between the Sacred Writings and the Literature of Jewish and Heathen Authors: Particulary that of the Classical Ages, Illustrated, Principally with a View to Evidence in Confimation of the Truth of Revealed Religion, Volume 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1819 - Bible |
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... Persians IV . On the Phoenicians and Sanchoniatho v . Of the Connection which subsisted be- tween the Jews and the Egyptians VI . Hermes Trismegistus ... VII . On Hecatæus , Manetho , Artapanus , and others VIII . On the Intercourse ...
... Persians IV . On the Phoenicians and Sanchoniatho v . Of the Connection which subsisted be- tween the Jews and the Egyptians VI . Hermes Trismegistus ... VII . On Hecatæus , Manetho , Artapanus , and others VIII . On the Intercourse ...
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... Persia † . Descendants of these , and probably of the other two tribes , were to be found dispersed through the East ; who repaired occasionally to Jeru- salem § , and were addressed by the apostles when Christianity was introduced ...
... Persia † . Descendants of these , and probably of the other two tribes , were to be found dispersed through the East ; who repaired occasionally to Jeru- salem § , and were addressed by the apostles when Christianity was introduced ...
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... Persia , might possibly have formed their expectations from some di- rect or indirect acquaintance with the pro- mises imparted to the Hebrew prophets * . The author has sometimes entered into particulars which may at first sight appear ...
... Persia , might possibly have formed their expectations from some di- rect or indirect acquaintance with the pro- mises imparted to the Hebrew prophets * . The author has sometimes entered into particulars which may at first sight appear ...
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... Persian mule , who should subject the Baby- lonians to his yoke : these were founded pro- bably on some knowledge of divine intima- tion imparted by the prophet Daniel to the Babylonian kings * . Alexander Polyhistor , a man highly ...
... Persian mule , who should subject the Baby- lonians to his yoke : these were founded pro- bably on some knowledge of divine intima- tion imparted by the prophet Daniel to the Babylonian kings * . Alexander Polyhistor , a man highly ...
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... Persians . ZOROASTER , or Zoroastres , or Zerdusht , who was regarded as the great institutor or reformer of the Persian religion , was one of the earliest and most distinguished teachers of mankind among the heathens . There have been ...
... Persians . ZOROASTER , or Zoroastres , or Zerdusht , who was regarded as the great institutor or reformer of the Persian religion , was one of the earliest and most distinguished teachers of mankind among the heathens . There have been ...
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Page 192 - I girded thee, though thou hast not known me : That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness : I make peace, and create evil : I the LORD do all these things.
Page 191 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight ; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.
Page 329 - For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved : but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Page 191 - And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, And hidden riches of secret places, That thou mayest know that I, the Lord, Which call thee by thy name, Am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake, And Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name : I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
Page 191 - I will raise up the decayed places thereof ; that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers : that saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure : even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 181 - Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto the choice vine; He washed his garments in wine, And his clothes in the blood of grapes : His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk.
Page 200 - I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Page 80 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Page 56 - And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Page 121 - 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.