The Antediluvian History, and Narrative of the Flood: As Set Forth in the Early Portions of the Book of GenesisOtis Clapp, 1851 - 324 pages |
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... employed , in the writing of His Word , the visible objects of nature , to express the spiritual things to which they have some relation . Thus , that the earth in general , as the dwell- ing - place for man's body , is the appropriate ...
... employed , in the writing of His Word , the visible objects of nature , to express the spiritual things to which they have some relation . Thus , that the earth in general , as the dwell- ing - place for man's body , is the appropriate ...
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... employed as was in agreement with the characteristics of the people , to whom it was originally vouchsafed . Hence has arisen that variety of style according to which different portions of the Sacred Scriptures are written . This ...
... employed as was in agreement with the characteristics of the people , to whom it was originally vouchsafed . Hence has arisen that variety of style according to which different portions of the Sacred Scriptures are written . This ...
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... employed for the purpose of representing spiritual things , when mankind , and es- pecially the descendants of Abram , to whom those documents , with the exception of the book of Job , were originally vouch- safed , had sunk into a ...
... employed for the purpose of representing spiritual things , when mankind , and es- pecially the descendants of Abram , to whom those documents , with the exception of the book of Job , were originally vouch- safed , had sunk into a ...
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... employed in a sense widely different from that , in which they are commonly used , that hesitation cannot be well founded . The fact which it supposes , cannot be maintained . Moreover , those who consider the words to be significant of ...
... employed in a sense widely different from that , in which they are commonly used , that hesitation cannot be well founded . The fact which it supposes , cannot be maintained . Moreover , those who consider the words to be significant of ...
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... employ this privilege in another department of biblical inquiry ; but for no other purpose , so far as we know our own hearts , than to advance the interest of what we believe to be the general scope , rational meaning , and religious ...
... employ this privilege in another department of biblical inquiry ; but for no other purpose , so far as we know our own hearts , than to advance the interest of what we believe to be the general scope , rational meaning , and religious ...
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Page 77 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 236 - The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Page 306 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Page 221 - And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Page 116 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Page 40 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Page 69 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid: and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 141 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, "Because thou hast done this, Thou art cursed above all cattle, And above every beast of the field; Upon thy belly shalt thou go, And dust shalt thou eat All the days of thy life...
Page 170 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 268 - But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. * For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away ; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.