An introduction to the reading and study of the English Bible, Volume 2 |
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... human knowledge at the time they were made , though so expressed as not to be in contradiction to the more perfect knowledge of later times . We have said that there is no scientific arrange- ment of the subjects of natural science ...
... human knowledge at the time they were made , though so expressed as not to be in contradiction to the more perfect knowledge of later times . We have said that there is no scientific arrange- ment of the subjects of natural science ...
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... human race , when the genera- tions of the most insignificant insect existed for un- numbered ages ? These stupendous changes may be but cycles in those great laws of the universe , where all is variable but the laws themselves , and He ...
... human race , when the genera- tions of the most insignificant insect existed for un- numbered ages ? These stupendous changes may be but cycles in those great laws of the universe , where all is variable but the laws themselves , and He ...
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... human organisation , rudely stamped on the first living creatures , preserved amid the destruction of races , and reproduced on a higher scale in their successors , man himself was wanting , till , after several successive creations ...
... human organisation , rudely stamped on the first living creatures , preserved amid the destruction of races , and reproduced on a higher scale in their successors , man himself was wanting , till , after several successive creations ...
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... human remains with those of the mammoth period , which induces us to hesitate in the adoption of Hugh Miller's cautious judgment , that , rightly understood , no known fact of science contradicts the Bible . When science gives us a new ...
... human remains with those of the mammoth period , which induces us to hesitate in the adoption of Hugh Miller's cautious judgment , that , rightly understood , no known fact of science contradicts the Bible . When science gives us a new ...
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... human bones ever whitened the floors of the oldest ocean - life period , the Lauren- tian rocks ; no human footprints appear amongst the suncracks and rain and ripple marks of the Primor- dial zone ; no human fragments are there amidst ...
... human bones ever whitened the floors of the oldest ocean - life period , the Lauren- tian rocks ; no human footprints appear amongst the suncracks and rain and ripple marks of the Primor- dial zone ; no human fragments are there amidst ...
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Page 41 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire ; the third, a chalcedony ; the fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte ; the eighth, beryl ; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
Page 404 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Page 228 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 139 - Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord ! To what end is it for you ? The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; Or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Page 181 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 122 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint : my heart is like wax ; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Page 176 - For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
Page 170 - The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth ; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand.
Page 177 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Page 242 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,