Jeremiah and Lamentations: A New Translation, with Notes Critical, Philological, and ExplanatoryOliphant & Balfour, 1810 - 524 pages |
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... reason , to place any passage of Holy Scripture in a clearer or better point of view . As concerning the present defective state of the Hebrew Text , the various kinds of mistakes that have found their way into it , and the ordinary ...
... reason , to place any passage of Holy Scripture in a clearer or better point of view . As concerning the present defective state of the Hebrew Text , the various kinds of mistakes that have found their way into it , and the ordinary ...
Page viii
... reason why a remedy of this kind should not be tried , provided only that it be administered with all the prudence and caution that is requisite . On the contrary I am persuaded , that we shall sometimes find instances of conjectural ...
... reason why a remedy of this kind should not be tried , provided only that it be administered with all the prudence and caution that is requisite . On the contrary I am persuaded , that we shall sometimes find instances of conjectural ...
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... reason , many of the latter reign precede those of the former , and in the same reign , the last delivered are put first , and the first last . As such an unnatural disposition could not have been the result of judgment , nor scarcely ...
... reason , many of the latter reign precede those of the former , and in the same reign , the last delivered are put first , and the first last . As such an unnatural disposition could not have been the result of judgment , nor scarcely ...
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... reason of this may be , that he is mostly taken up " with the gentler passions of grief and pity , for the expression of which " he has a peculiar talent . This is most evident in the Lamentations , " where those passions altogether ...
... reason of this may be , that he is mostly taken up " with the gentler passions of grief and pity , for the expression of which " he has a peculiar talent . This is most evident in the Lamentations , " where those passions altogether ...
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... reasons will hold good for attending to this peculiar form of construction in all parts of the sacred writings where it occurs , I have endeavoured to point it out , after the Bishop's example , to the Reader's notice , by distributing ...
... reasons will hold good for attending to this peculiar form of construction in all parts of the sacred writings where it occurs , I have endeavoured to point it out , after the Bishop's example , to the Reader's notice , by distributing ...
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according Ahikam ancient versions Baruch Behold called captivity cause Chald Chaldeans CHAP Chapter concerning covenant daughter denote desolation Deut dwell Editions read Edom Egypt enemies evil expressed Ezek fathers four Editions four MSS gate God's hand hearkened heart Hebrew Heshbon house of JEHOVAH HOVAH Ibid inhabitants Isai Israel Jaazer Jeconiah Jehoiakim JEHOVAH hath JEHOVAH of hosts Jeremiah Jerusalem Jews Josephus Kareah king of Babylon king of Judah Masora Masoretes means Moab nations Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan Nethaniah Note on Ch omit Pashur passage perhaps person plural preter priests princes properly signifies prophecy prophet reign render saith JEHOVAH seems sense shew Sion speak spoken supposed Surely sword temple thine thing thou hast thou shalt three Editions three MSS tion translation twenty unto thee verb Vulg Vulgate wickedness word of JEHOVAH xxiii Zedekiah
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Page 309 - Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Page 309 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Page 47 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Page 231 - And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Page 51 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Page 294 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly, that it might not rain ; and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 210 - LET us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Page 297 - When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Page 81 - I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
Page 78 - I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.