The Natural History of the Bible ; Or, A Description of All the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gums, and Precious Stones, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures: Collected from the Best Authorities, and Alphabetically ArrangedThomas Tegg, 1824 - 430 pages |
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Page xi
... Egyptians ; in which is shown the Peculiarity of those Judgments , and their Correspondence with the Rites and Idolatry of that People . 8vo . London , 1794 . CALMET ( Aug. ) Great Dictionary of the Bible , with Continuation , and ...
... Egyptians ; in which is shown the Peculiarity of those Judgments , and their Correspondence with the Rites and Idolatry of that People . 8vo . London , 1794 . CALMET ( Aug. ) Great Dictionary of the Bible , with Continuation , and ...
Page xxv
... Egyptians , who , from time immemorial had been accustomed to consider certain animals as improper for food , and therefore to avoid all intercourse with those who ate or even touched what they deemed defiling . [ See Gen. xliii . 32 ...
... Egyptians , who , from time immemorial had been accustomed to consider certain animals as improper for food , and therefore to avoid all intercourse with those who ate or even touched what they deemed defiling . [ See Gen. xliii . 32 ...
Page xxvi
... Egyptians , and used in divi- nation by other nations . Τα νομιζωμένα παρ Αιγυπτίοις , και τοις MOITOS TWY aνogwπwv pavlina . And Montfaucon , in his Hexapl . Orig . has published a fragment of Eusebius Emisenus , from a manuscript ...
... Egyptians , and used in divi- nation by other nations . Τα νομιζωμένα παρ Αιγυπτίοις , και τοις MOITOS TWY aνogwπwv pavlina . And Montfaucon , in his Hexapl . Orig . has published a fragment of Eusebius Emisenus , from a manuscript ...
Page xxvii
... Egyptians , but other heathen nations , and particularly the Canaanites , grossly corrupt in their manners , morals , and worship : and this restriction with respect to diet was alike calculated to prevent intimacies with them ; so that ...
... Egyptians , but other heathen nations , and particularly the Canaanites , grossly corrupt in their manners , morals , and worship : and this restriction with respect to diet was alike calculated to prevent intimacies with them ; so that ...
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... Egyptians , says , 6 You adore the ox ; I sacrifice to the gods . You reverence the eel as a very powerful deity ; we consider it as the daintiest of food . ' Antiphanes and the Greek writers , who amused themselves with ridiculing the ...
... Egyptians , says , 6 You adore the ox ; I sacrifice to the gods . You reverence the eel as a very powerful deity ; we consider it as the daintiest of food . ' Antiphanes and the Greek writers , who amused themselves with ridiculing the ...
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