The People's Dictionary of the BibleSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1847 |
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... Jewish or in the Christian church . Accordingly , Abraham appears in the New Testament as the type of unshaken ... Jews to be proud of their descent from him , and to boast of being Abraham's seed ( John viii . 33 ) . The fact that ...
... Jewish or in the Christian church . Accordingly , Abraham appears in the New Testament as the type of unshaken ... Jews to be proud of their descent from him , and to boast of being Abraham's seed ( John viii . 33 ) . The fact that ...
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... Jews . When the last war against the Romans broke out , he took part with the enemies of his country . He died in the seventieth year of his age , the fifty - first of his reign , and the third year of the Emperor Trajan . Was it in a ...
... Jews . When the last war against the Romans broke out , he took part with the enemies of his country . He died in the seventieth year of his age , the fifty - first of his reign , and the third year of the Emperor Trajan . Was it in a ...
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... Jewish state , but most planted in the place by Ptolemy Lagus , about the year 320 , A.C. The Jews in Alexandria enjoyed many privi- leges granted to them by Alexander , the Ptolemies , and the Romans . They had equal rights with the ...
... Jewish state , but most planted in the place by Ptolemy Lagus , about the year 320 , A.C. The Jews in Alexandria enjoyed many privi- leges granted to them by Alexander , the Ptolemies , and the Romans . They had equal rights with the ...
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... Jews belong to the former ; are descendants of Ishmael , the son of a bondwoman . The bondwoman and her son were cast out . The children of the free woman remain in perpetual possession , and ought therefore to stand fast in the liberty ...
... Jews belong to the former ; are descendants of Ishmael , the son of a bondwoman . The bondwoman and her son were cast out . The children of the free woman remain in perpetual possession , and ought therefore to stand fast in the liberty ...
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... Jewish sense of excommuni- cation . In Acts xxiii . 12 , certain Jews are mentioned who had bound themselves under a curse to slay Paul . In Rom . ix . 3 , Paul sions of prevalent traditions . In many cases he has ΑΝΑ ΑΝΑ 54.
... Jewish sense of excommuni- cation . In Acts xxiii . 12 , certain Jews are mentioned who had bound themselves under a curse to slay Paul . In Rom . ix . 3 , Paul sions of prevalent traditions . In many cases he has ΑΝΑ ΑΝΑ 54.
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Abimelech Abraham Acts altar ancient animal apostle appears Arabs Babylon bear Bible Cæsarea Canaan Christ Christian Chron church circumcision comp Corinth cross Damascus David death denotes Deut divine earth east Egypt Egyptian Epistle existence Exod Ezek fact father favour feet gospel Greek hand Hebrew Hebrew word Hebron Hence Herodotus holy honour human idolatry Israel Israelites Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews John Josephus Josh Judah Judea king land Lebanon Letter Lord Luke Matt means ment mentioned mind Mosaic Moses mountains narrative nation nature Numb original Palestine passage Paul Pentateuch period persons priests prophet regard religion religious rendered Roman sacred Samaria Scriptures Septuagint signifies spirit Syria temple term Testament things tion tribes truth viii whence worship writing xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv
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Page 251 - In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, " Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates...
Page 321 - And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
Page 385 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 425 - In the cross of Christ I glory, Towering o'er the wrecks of time ; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime.
Page 441 - Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Page 469 - Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Page 206 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 456 - Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment : and those that walk in pride HE is able to abase.
Page 493 - Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian. 23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you : the LORD shall rule over you.
Page 194 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.