The Patriarchal Age, Or, The History and Religion of Mankind from the Creation to the Death of Isaac: Deduced from the Writings of Moses and Other Inspired Authors and Illustrated by Copious References to the Ancient Records, Traditions, and Mythology of the Heathen WorldLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847 - 616 pages |
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... thou- sand one hundred and forty - nine years from Adam to the fifth year of Demetrius , king of Syria . This agrees exactly with the reckoning of Demetrius , and the chronology of the Septuagint . Still more important is the testimony ...
... thou- sand one hundred and forty - nine years from Adam to the fifth year of Demetrius , king of Syria . This agrees exactly with the reckoning of Demetrius , and the chronology of the Septuagint . Still more important is the testimony ...
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... thou mayest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth . ' The Greek words in the Acts agree with the Septuagint ; but the later Jews omitted the caph at the end of the first word , and added a jod to the end of the other , and thereby ...
... thou mayest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth . ' The Greek words in the Acts agree with the Septuagint ; but the later Jews omitted the caph at the end of the first word , and added a jod to the end of the other , and thereby ...
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... thou wouldest not , but a body hast thou prepared me . ' The Septuagint version of Psalm xl . 6-8 , agrees with this ; yet the Hebrew , by a very slight alteration of letters , is now made to read , " My ears hast thou opened ...
... thou wouldest not , but a body hast thou prepared me . ' The Septuagint version of Psalm xl . 6-8 , agrees with this ; yet the Hebrew , by a very slight alteration of letters , is now made to read , " My ears hast thou opened ...
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... thou shalt make a plate of pure gold , and grave upon it , like the engravings of a signet , Holiness to the Lord . " Can language be more expressive ? Is it not evident that this sentence must have been in words and letters ? And is it ...
... thou shalt make a plate of pure gold , and grave upon it , like the engravings of a signet , Holiness to the Lord . " Can language be more expressive ? Is it not evident that this sentence must have been in words and letters ? And is it ...
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... thou art undone , O people of Chemosh . " The inspired writer here ascribes the passage to " them that speak in proverbs , " proving that the terms had been previously in use : the author's name is not given . Yet Jeremiah ( xlviii . 45 ...
... thou art undone , O people of Chemosh . " The inspired writer here ascribes the passage to " them that speak in proverbs , " proving that the terms had been previously in use : the author's name is not given . Yet Jeremiah ( xlviii . 45 ...
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Page 461 - And God heard the voice of the lad ; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. № Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
Page 479 - And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends : for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Page 148 - And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 123 - And GOD said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 166 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx A stone.
Page 297 - Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons...
Page 362 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 286 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 500 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 168 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life...