Conversations on the Bible: Between a Mother and Her ChildrenHarrison Hall, 1837 - 360 pages |
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... perhaps , be extenuated by apology ; but those who take upon themselves the office of instructors , have little right to insist on the lenity of the public . An anonymous work may anticipate candour , because it owes nothing to the ...
... perhaps , be extenuated by apology ; but those who take upon themselves the office of instructors , have little right to insist on the lenity of the public . An anonymous work may anticipate candour , because it owes nothing to the ...
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... perhaps wholly supersede this . To obviate the difficul- ties on either hand , the use of compilations would be the more judicious plan ; and to these might be added the more simple parts of the Bible itself . There can be no question ...
... perhaps wholly supersede this . To obviate the difficul- ties on either hand , the use of compilations would be the more judicious plan ; and to these might be added the more simple parts of the Bible itself . There can be no question ...
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... perhaps , of the gospel by Matthew , in Greek . They are subdivided into books , composed by different hands and in different ages throughout the long period of sixteen hundred years , yet forming a whole , harmonious in all its parts ...
... perhaps , of the gospel by Matthew , in Greek . They are subdivided into books , composed by different hands and in different ages throughout the long period of sixteen hundred years , yet forming a whole , harmonious in all its parts ...
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... Perhaps they were months . Only think , -Methusaleh lived nine hundred and sixty - nine years . What a prodi- gious length of time ! Mother . They were literally years . The numbers recorded by Moses can , on no other hypothesis , be ...
... Perhaps they were months . Only think , -Methusaleh lived nine hundred and sixty - nine years . What a prodi- gious length of time ! Mother . They were literally years . The numbers recorded by Moses can , on no other hypothesis , be ...
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... perhaps , her unworthy city and friends , she forgot the injunction , and " was turned into a pillar of salt . " Charles . Is that metamorphosis supposed to be literally true ? Mother . The words of Moses are often metaphorically ...
... perhaps , her unworthy city and friends , she forgot the injunction , and " was turned into a pillar of salt . " Charles . Is that metamorphosis supposed to be literally true ? Mother . The words of Moses are often metaphorically ...
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Page 342 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 239 - What portion have we in David ? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel : now see to thine own house, David.
Page 146 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Page 245 - And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
Page 298 - This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones : to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Page 129 - The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall hearken...
Page 113 - If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
Page 275 - Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land ; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Page 147 - If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
Page 81 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...