Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New ... and More Amply Illustrating the Rest Than Has Been Yet Done, by Means of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East: In Two Volumes. ...J. Johnson, 1787 |
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Page xliv
... Feast of Lights . That feast of dedication mentioned by St. John , or the folemnity called Qwra , was obferv- ed in confequence of an appointment of Judas the Maccabee , and of the body of the Jews at that time , of which we have an ...
... Feast of Lights . That feast of dedication mentioned by St. John , or the folemnity called Qwra , was obferv- ed in confequence of an appointment of Judas the Maccabee , and of the body of the Jews at that time , of which we have an ...
Page xlv
... Feast of Lights , and therefore , it is to be fup- pofed , by much the most remarkable for it's illuminations , was obferved in the latter end of the month Cafleu , which answers to the firft part of our December , and by their inter ...
... Feast of Lights , and therefore , it is to be fup- pofed , by much the most remarkable for it's illuminations , was obferved in the latter end of the month Cafleu , which answers to the firft part of our December , and by their inter ...
Page xlix
... feasts of Flora , and faying what could be more beautiful another reminded him of Herod's illumina- tions , when your lips , faid he , moved with filent admiration , and you were pale with af- tonishment at thofe festivals of the circum ...
... feasts of Flora , and faying what could be more beautiful another reminded him of Herod's illumina- tions , when your lips , faid he , moved with filent admiration , and you were pale with af- tonishment at thofe festivals of the circum ...
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... Feast of Lights was celebrated . They might then , very pro- bably , coincide , as I have been fuppofing ; and if they did , no one will wonder that this double festival was obferved with the greatest fplendour , in the time of fuch a ...
... Feast of Lights was celebrated . They might then , very pro- bably , coincide , as I have been fuppofing ; and if they did , no one will wonder that this double festival was obferved with the greatest fplendour , in the time of fuch a ...
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... Feast of Tu- lips . It is fo called , " he tells us , in a note in p . 78 , of his firft tome , " because it confifts 66 in illuminating a garden , and this flower is " what the Turks admire moft . " And in the text of the fame page he ...
... Feast of Tu- lips . It is fo called , " he tells us , in a note in p . 78 , of his firft tome , " because it confifts 66 in illuminating a garden , and this flower is " what the Turks admire moft . " And in the text of the fame page he ...
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Page 7 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Page 309 - And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Page 449 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Page 313 - And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord.
Page 136 - And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
Page 198 - 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. And I will make all my mountains a way, And my highways shall be exalted. Behold, these shall come from far: And, lo, these from the north and from the west; And these from the land of Sinim.
Page 116 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 91 - Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Page 425 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 116 - David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone. And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth.