Triumphs of the Bible: With the Testimony of Science to Its TruthCharles Scribner, 1863 - 439 pages |
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Page 161 - It is He who stretcheth out the North over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. By His Spirit He hath garnished the heavens. He telleth the number of the stars, He calleth them all by their names. He commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and sealeth up the stars. He
Page 328 - Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall." The beautiful field around it is, no doubt, the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph, taking it out of the hand of the Amorite with his sword and with his
Page 161 - that bringeth out their host by number? It is He who meted out the heavens with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains - in scales and the hills in a balance. It is He who
Page 268 - Matthew (viii. 16) we read, that "when the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils, and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick." But why was it evening when they brought to Jesus
Page 101 - Heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment, as a vesture shalt Thou change them and they shall be changed.
Page 286 - and made the sea dry laud, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground : and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on
Page 281 - with milk and honey ; to become once more " a land of brooks of waters, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates, and of
Page 291 - ... And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire ; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly."—EXODUS
Page 241 - to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was (the) Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to
Page 333 - him into a pit or dry well at Dothan, intending apparently to leave him to die there, when 'they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.