The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of The Holy LandT. Nelson & Sons, 1877 - 718 pages |
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Page 35
... 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 36
... Josephus informs us in the seventh book of his " Wars . " Though the apostles seem never to have visited Beirût - a fact somewhat of Christi- remarkable — yet Christianity was early planted here , and so flourished that it soon became ...
... Josephus informs us in the seventh book of his " Wars . " Though the apostles seem never to have visited Beirût - a fact somewhat of Christi- remarkable — yet Christianity was early planted here , and so flourished that it soon became ...
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... 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 ...
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... Josephus . Sons of Ham . Josephus , without hesitation or qualification , asserts that Canaan , the fourth son of Ham , settled this couutry , and gave it his own name ; and , entering into details he mentions the different sons of ...
... Josephus . Sons of Ham . Josephus , without hesitation or qualification , asserts that Canaan , the fourth son of Ham , settled this couutry , and gave it his own name ; and , entering into details he mentions the different sons of ...
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... Josephus adds that a part of Idumea was called Amalekitis , from the descendants of this grandson of Edom . The " country of the Amalekites " which Chedorlaomer smote in the days of Abraham , I therefore take to be the district that was ...
... Josephus adds that a part of Idumea was called Amalekitis , from the descendants of this grandson of Edom . The " country of the Amalekites " which Chedorlaomer smote in the days of Abraham , I therefore take to be the district that was ...
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