A short history of the ancient Israelites, enlarged from the Apparatus biblicus of père Lamy, and corrected and improved throughout by A. Clarke [from the tr. by T. Bedford].1802 |
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... occasions in people's manners . We inhabit the same country which the antient Britons , and afterwards the Ro- mans , dwelt in : and yet , how much do we vary from both in their way of living ; nay , even from that of our own countrymen ...
... occasions in people's manners . We inhabit the same country which the antient Britons , and afterwards the Ro- mans , dwelt in : and yet , how much do we vary from both in their way of living ; nay , even from that of our own countrymen ...
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... occasions of life : and we see the Pa- triarchs do the same . Abraham , who had so many servants , and was near a hundred years old , brings the water himself to wash the feet of his divine guests , bids his wife make the bread quickly ...
... occasions of life : and we see the Pa- triarchs do the same . Abraham , who had so many servants , and was near a hundred years old , brings the water himself to wash the feet of his divine guests , bids his wife make the bread quickly ...
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... occasion . ** The Scripture abounds with such examples . This , without doubt , is what most offends those who are not acquainted with antiquity , and have no opinion of any customs but their own . When one speaks of ploughmen and ...
... occasion . ** The Scripture abounds with such examples . This , without doubt , is what most offends those who are not acquainted with antiquity , and have no opinion of any customs but their own . When one speaks of ploughmen and ...
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... occasion their running into debt . There were , of consequence , fewer law - suits , selling up of goods , and families ruined : fewer frauds , outrages , and such other crimes , as real or imaginary poverty makes men commit , when they ...
... occasion their running into debt . There were , of consequence , fewer law - suits , selling up of goods , and families ruined : fewer frauds , outrages , and such other crimes , as real or imaginary poverty makes men commit , when they ...
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... occasion for them . The common way of riding was upon asses , even among the rich . To give us a great idea of Jair , one of the judges over the people , the Scripture tells us that he had thirty sons riding upon thirty asses , and ...
... occasion for them . The common way of riding was upon asses , even among the rich . To give us a great idea of Jair , one of the judges over the people , the Scripture tells us that he had thirty sons riding upon thirty asses , and ...
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Page 219 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 231 - But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Page 143 - And the Lord said unto Moses, " Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Page 242 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die : it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations : And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean...
Page 219 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life.
Page 220 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 179 - Then did they till their ground in peace, and the earth gave her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit The ancient men sat all in the streets, communing together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.
Page 185 - I more : circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews ; as touching the law, a Pharisee ; concerning zeal, persecuting the church ; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Page 139 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us.
Page 259 - And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold : six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.