Horæ Mosaicæ: Or, A View of the Mosaical Records, with Respect to Their Coincidence with Profane Antiquity; Their Internal Credibility; and Their Connection with Christianity: Comprehending the Substance of Eight Lectures Read Before the University of Oxford, in the Year 1801; Pursuant to the Will of the Late Rev. John Bampton, A.M.University Press, for the author, 1801 - 355 pages |
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Page vii
... still higher degree to the poems of Homer . Some- times their credibility has been even to- tally denied ; and the whole Volume con- temptuously affigned to an age of fabulous uncertainty . At other times the mode of A 4 attack 1 ...
... still higher degree to the poems of Homer . Some- times their credibility has been even to- tally denied ; and the whole Volume con- temptuously affigned to an age of fabulous uncertainty . At other times the mode of A 4 attack 1 ...
Page 10
... still constitutes the general creed of paganism ; and a dere- liction of the pure worship of the Unity is equally chargeable upon the refinements of Europe and Afia , the degraded worship of the western hemisphere , and the base fu ...
... still constitutes the general creed of paganism ; and a dere- liction of the pure worship of the Unity is equally chargeable upon the refinements of Europe and Afia , the degraded worship of the western hemisphere , and the base fu ...
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... still prevails , in the fhape of one of its dialects , through fo large a portion both of Africa , and of the East the same radicals equally serve to form the basis of the kindred tongues of Chaldea , Syria , Paleftine , Phenicia , and ...
... still prevails , in the fhape of one of its dialects , through fo large a portion both of Africa , and of the East the same radicals equally serve to form the basis of the kindred tongues of Chaldea , Syria , Paleftine , Phenicia , and ...
Page 35
... still remained prevalent in the Eaft ; and a lunar purification of fouls formed one of the most prominent features of the Manichean heresy © . With regard to this cofmogony of the Chaldeans , it is worthy of obfervation , that allegory ...
... still remained prevalent in the Eaft ; and a lunar purification of fouls formed one of the most prominent features of the Manichean heresy © . With regard to this cofmogony of the Chaldeans , it is worthy of obfervation , that allegory ...
Page 121
... still used , the abfurdity will be evident . In that cafe , the old age of Abraham , when his fon was born by a fpecial intervention of heaven , will amount to fomething more than eight folar years . VII . The existence of giants feems ...
... still used , the abfurdity will be evident . In that cafe , the old age of Abraham , when his fon was born by a fpecial intervention of heaven , will amount to fomething more than eight folar years . VII . The existence of giants feems ...
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Page 148 - God had •determined to bring upon the earth at once, " the windows of heaven were opened, and the fountains of the great deep broken up.
Page 260 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 332 - When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts?
Page 16 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 332 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you : yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear : your hands arc full of blood.
Page 177 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 262 - And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth ? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I, the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Page 261 - And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice : for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
Page 313 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
Page 177 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.