A Bible-reading for schools. The great prophecy of Israel's restoration, Isaiah, chap. 40-66, arranged and ed. by M. ArnoldMacmillan and Company, 1872 - 65 pages |
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... passages of which the meaning is almost or quite unintelligible , I have sought to choose , among the better mean- ings which have been offered for each of these passages , that which seemed the best , and to weave it into the ...
... passages of which the meaning is almost or quite unintelligible , I have sought to choose , among the better mean- ings which have been offered for each of these passages , that which seemed the best , and to weave it into the ...
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... passage clean unintelligible , im- pairs and obscures the reader's understanding of much more than that particular passage itself ; the entire connexion of ideas is broken for him and he has to begin again ; and after several such passages ...
... passage clean unintelligible , im- pairs and obscures the reader's understanding of much more than that particular passage itself ; the entire connexion of ideas is broken for him and he has to begin again ; and after several such passages ...
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... passages from him which Gesenius brings together as quoted in the New Testament , there are twenty - one from these last ... passage , not in this series of chapters , but yet evidently by its subject belonging to them , -let us take the ...
... passages from him which Gesenius brings together as quoted in the New Testament , there are twenty - one from these last ... passage , not in this series of chapters , but yet evidently by its subject belonging to them , -let us take the ...
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... passage , but he cannot possibly understand it ; and this is due partly to the want of explanations , partly to the arrangement , partly to obscurity in the translation . He requires to be told first , as a learner would be told before ...
... passage , but he cannot possibly understand it ; and this is due partly to the want of explanations , partly to the arrangement , partly to obscurity in the translation . He requires to be told first , as a learner would be told before ...
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... passage , baffling the reader and throwing him out , will often , as we have said , spoil a whole chapter for him , and there are many such passages in the authorised version . To avoid this check in reading the grand series of chapters ...
... passage , baffling the reader and throwing him out , will often , as we have said , spoil a whole chapter for him , and there are many such passages in the authorised version . To avoid this check in reading the grand series of chapters ...
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afflicted Assyria authorised version Babylon beasts Behold Book of Isaiah Bozrah bring bringeth brought called captivity Chaldeans cockatrice comfort connexion corrector Cyrus declare desert didst earth Edom Egypt English Bible Ethiopia exile flesh Gentiles give glory God's Greek hand hast thou Hearken heart heathen heavens Hebrew Holy idolatrous idols iniquity Isaiah isles Israel Jacob Jerusalem Jewish Jews Judah judgment king kingdom kingdom of Israel kingdom of Judah land learner literary literature LORD hath Lord's maketh mercy mountains mouth nations Nebaioth offering Old Testament passage peace Persia poetry Prophet redeemed rejoice rendering restoration righteousness saith the LORD salvation schools sense series of chapters servant shew sins speak spirit Testament thereof thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt tion transgression translators tree unto thee verse voice Vulgate watchmen whole word worship yourselves Zion
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Page xxiv - He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and -the isles shall wait for his law.
Page 30 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 32 - God; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 52 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Page xxv - He was taken from prison, and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation ? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Page 23 - SING, O barren, thou that didst not bear; Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child : For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
Page 9 - Sing, O ye heavens ; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth : break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein : for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Page 50 - Why sayest thou. O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
Page 25 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 16 - They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.