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, 1797 |
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... lived so many years in the East , and might have advan- tageoufly applied the remains of their ancient cuftoms to the elucidation of Scripture , to which if he was a stranger , he must have been an egregiously negligent observer ; yet ...
... lived so many years in the East , and might have advan- tageoufly applied the remains of their ancient cuftoms to the elucidation of Scripture , to which if he was a stranger , he must have been an egregiously negligent observer ; yet ...
Page 68
... lived not very long after the time of Amos , reprefents Damafcus as a place of trade , and in particular as traffick- ing in wine , and what we tranflate white wool , Ezek . xxvii . 18 , but which may equally well be understood to mean ...
... lived not very long after the time of Amos , reprefents Damafcus as a place of trade , and in particular as traffick- ing in wine , and what we tranflate white wool , Ezek . xxvii . 18 , but which may equally well be understood to mean ...
Page 120
... lived there , must have been a time of great few- ing . For the rejoicing on that occafion lafted , it seems , ten days , and on the first day of the ceremony the whole household of the Ba- Shaw appeared in new clothes , and were very ...
... lived there , must have been a time of great few- ing . For the rejoicing on that occafion lafted , it seems , ten days , and on the first day of the ceremony the whole household of the Ba- Shaw appeared in new clothes , and were very ...
Page 144
... lived . This is one of the most curious obfervations in that account of the Prefetto of Egypt , which was published by the late Bishop of Clogher ; and is , in my apprehension , an exquifite confirmation of our tranflation , though ...
... lived . This is one of the most curious obfervations in that account of the Prefetto of Egypt , which was published by the late Bishop of Clogher ; and is , in my apprehension , an exquifite confirmation of our tranflation , though ...
Page 147
... lived fix hundred years ago , tells us , in his Itinerary , that travellers were then wont to infcribe their names on certain remarkable places : he mentions one at Jerufalem , p . 75 ( Ed . Elzev . 1633 ) ; and Rachel's fe- pulchre as ...
... lived fix hundred years ago , tells us , in his Itinerary , that travellers were then wont to infcribe their names on certain remarkable places : he mentions one at Jerufalem , p . 75 ( Ed . Elzev . 1633 ) ; and Rachel's fe- pulchre as ...
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