Observations Upon the Plagues Inflicted Upon the Egyptians: In which is Shewn the Peculiarity of Those Judgments, and Their Correspondence with the Rites and Idolatries of that People. To which is Prefixed, a Prefatory Discourse, Concerning the Grecian Colonies from EgyptT. Hamilton and R. Ogle, 1810 - 392 pages |
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... held sacred The Worship of Achors and Acoron , the God - fly , & c . 54 58 59 The true Place ascertained where Ahaziah sent to enquire 63 A more determinate Proof of the Author's Opinion Frequent Prohibitions of this Worship The Miracle ...
... held sacred The Worship of Achors and Acoron , the God - fly , & c . 54 58 59 The true Place ascertained where Ahaziah sent to enquire 63 A more determinate Proof of the Author's Opinion Frequent Prohibitions of this Worship The Miracle ...
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... held universally by the Egyptians in great reverence , as being sacred to 3 Isis . The rites of this goddess were about this time brought into Greece ; and were kept up par- ticularly in Attica . In other places they be- came in great ...
... held universally by the Egyptians in great reverence , as being sacred to 3 Isis . The rites of this goddess were about this time brought into Greece ; and were kept up par- ticularly in Attica . In other places they be- came in great ...
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... held in the highest veneration , They worshipped them , and offered to them sacrifices : nor would they suffer any thing to be thrown into them , that could possibly pol- lute their waters . The like obtained among the Medes , Parthians ...
... held in the highest veneration , They worshipped them , and offered to them sacrifices : nor would they suffer any thing to be thrown into them , that could possibly pol- lute their waters . The like obtained among the Medes , Parthians ...
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... held water in general sacred , as Julius Firmicus has observed : - Ægypti incolæ , aquarum beneficia percipien- tes , aquam colunt , aquis supplicant , aquas su- perstitiosâ veneratione prosequuntur . Antiquity of this Worship . These ...
... held water in general sacred , as Julius Firmicus has observed : - Ægypti incolæ , aquarum beneficia percipien- tes , aquam colunt , aquis supplicant , aquas su- perstitiosâ veneratione prosequuntur . Antiquity of this Worship . These ...
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... held their sacred stream changed and polluted : and the divinity whom they worshipped so shamefully foiled and debased . And these ap- pearances must have had a salutary effect up- on the Israelites ; as they were hence warned not to ...
... held their sacred stream changed and polluted : and the divinity whom they worshipped so shamefully foiled and debased . And these ap- pearances must have had a salutary effect up- on the Israelites ; as they were hence warned not to ...
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Aaron Accaron Ægyptus ancient Arabia Baal Baal-zephon Bedea behold brought called children of Israel Clysma consequence Coptic darkness deity Diodorus Diodorus Siculus divine earth Egyp Egyptians Ekron emblem encamped esteemed Etham evil Exod Exodus farther fire first-born flies Grecians Greek hail heaven Heliopolis Hence Herod Herodotus Ibid idolatry Israelites Josephus judgment king land of Egypt land of Goshen learned locusts Lord said unto Manetho mentioned Moses mountain night Nile nome Osiris particularly person Pharaoh plague Plato Pliny Plutarch Pocock priests prophet Ptolemy purport Red-sea rites river sacred says seems sent serpent shew shewn signified speaks stiled Strabo supposed swarms temple thee things thou tion unto Moses wilderness word worship writers Αιγυπτιοι γαρ δε εις εκ εν εσιν ην θεον και κατα μεν παρα προς τας τε τες τοις τῷ Ων