The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy LandT. Nelson, 1869 - 718 pages |
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... Josephus , and other authors , both heathen and Christian . It became a Roman colony in A Roman the reign of Augustus , and had Julia Felix added to its name . Agrippa colony . adorned and beautified it with colonnades , porticos ...
... Josephus , and other authors , both heathen and Christian . It became a Roman colony in A Roman the reign of Augustus , and had Julia Felix added to its name . Agrippa colony . adorned and beautified it with colonnades , porticos ...
Page 41
... Josephus , some revelled in drunken feasts , and kept the city in alarm by their stirs and tumults ; some were engaged in plunder and murder , when the slain were not dead in battle ; some wept bitterly , like Isaiah , and refused to be ...
... Josephus , some revelled in drunken feasts , and kept the city in alarm by their stirs and tumults ; some were engaged in plunder and murder , when the slain were not dead in battle ; some wept bitterly , like Isaiah , and refused to be ...
Page 68
... Josephus says he was landed on the shores of the Euxine - far enough from this , certainly . I care very little about these discrepancies as to the place . There are other questions , however , which I wish to have answered . The Bible ...
... Josephus says he was landed on the shores of the Euxine - far enough from this , certainly . I care very little about these discrepancies as to the place . There are other questions , however , which I wish to have answered . The Bible ...
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... Josephus . Sons of Ham . there any reason to doubt that it was originally settled by the immediate de- scendants of Canaan ? Heredotus opens his celebrated History with this singular sentence : " The more learned of the Persians assert ...
... Josephus . Sons of Ham . there any reason to doubt that it was originally settled by the immediate de- scendants of Canaan ? Heredotus opens his celebrated History with this singular sentence : " The more learned of the Persians assert ...
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... Josephus , who lived in this country nearly two thousand years ago , and had access to documents which have long since perished , does not even allude to a suspicion of such an immigration from the south ; and if there are , or ever ...
... Josephus , who lived in this country nearly two thousand years ago , and had access to documents which have long since perished , does not even allude to a suspicion of such an immigration from the south ; and if there are , or ever ...
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