The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah: Including the Dissertation on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volume 1Baynes, 1808 |
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... of the truth and exactness , of the ancient Scripture his- tory , by shewing how far the old frag- ments of the heathen writers agree with it , VOL . I. a and how much better and more aentic the account is THE PREFACE. ...
... of the truth and exactness , of the ancient Scripture his- tory , by shewing how far the old frag- ments of the heathen writers agree with it , VOL . I. a and how much better and more aentic the account is THE PREFACE. ...
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... truth in them . " We have much the same account of the writings of Sanchoniathon . " Sanchoniathon of Bery- tus , we are told , wrote his history of the Jewish antiquities with the greatest care and fidelity , having received his facts ...
... truth in them . " We have much the same account of the writings of Sanchoniathon . " Sanchoniathon of Bery- tus , we are told , wrote his history of the Jewish antiquities with the greatest care and fidelity , having received his facts ...
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... truth and antiquity ; our modern enemies of revealed religion would think it a partiality not to allow them as much autho- rity as our Bible . As the works of Taautus and Sanchoni- athon were corrupted , by the fables of authors who ...
... truth and antiquity ; our modern enemies of revealed religion would think it a partiality not to allow them as much autho- rity as our Bible . As the works of Taautus and Sanchoni- athon were corrupted , by the fables of authors who ...
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... truth or probability ; and I think I have met with a saying of an ancient writer , which seems to intimate it ; for he uses words something to this purport : Datur hæc venia antiquitati , ut miscendo ficta veris primordia sua augustiora ...
... truth or probability ; and I think I have met with a saying of an ancient writer , which seems to intimate it ; for he uses words something to this purport : Datur hæc venia antiquitati , ut miscendo ficta veris primordia sua augustiora ...
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... truth above . nine hundred years . But there ought to be no great stress laid upon Herodotus ' account in this matter ; as he himself seems to own that he had taken up his opinion from report only , and not examined any records to ...
... truth above . nine hundred years . But there ought to be no great stress laid upon Herodotus ' account in this matter ; as he himself seems to own that he had taken up his opinion from report only , and not examined any records to ...
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Page 70 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 265 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 114 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 77 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Page 255 - And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Page 295 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Page 273 - Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
Page 265 - 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 265 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 117 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.