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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... speak of spiritual subjects , by means of those things which they knew to be their representatives in the world . - Without extending these remarks , it is evident , that the earliest narratives of antiquity were written in a style that ...
... speak of spiritual subjects , by means of those things which they knew to be their representatives in the world . - Without extending these remarks , it is evident , that the earliest narratives of antiquity were written in a style that ...
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... speak of the mind of man as a microcosm a little world , while the Greek fabulists commonly represented his various sentiments , by numerous objects selected from animated nature . This style did not originate with the Greeks , it ...
... speak of the mind of man as a microcosm a little world , while the Greek fabulists commonly represented his various sentiments , by numerous objects selected from animated nature . This style did not originate with the Greeks , it ...
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... speak the sentiments of modern philosophy , of which indeed he could have known nothing . This it would be impossible to do , to say nothing of the irreverence of such an attempt . Their principal aim seems to have been to show , that ...
... speak the sentiments of modern philosophy , of which indeed he could have known nothing . This it would be impossible to do , to say nothing of the irreverence of such an attempt . Their principal aim seems to have been to show , that ...
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... of primeval times ; and that they are related in a historical form , because that was the method of speaking of such things , common to those early periods of civilized life . through which it had pleased the Lord to raise man 3 *
... of primeval times ; and that they are related in a historical form , because that was the method of speaking of such things , common to those early periods of civilized life . through which it had pleased the Lord to raise man 3 *
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... speak in proverbs , " ) " come unto Heshbon , let the city of Sihon be built and prepared : for there is a fire gone out of Heshbon , and a flame from the city of Sihon ; it hath consumed Ar of Moab , and the lords of the high places of ...
... speak in proverbs , " ) " come unto Heshbon , let the city of Sihon be built and prepared : for there is a fire gone out of Heshbon , and a flame from the city of Sihon ; it hath consumed Ar of Moab , and the lords of the high places of ...
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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.