Observations on Various Passages of Scripture: Placing Them in a New Light; and Ascertaining the Meaning of Several, Not Determinable by the Methods Commonly Made Use of by the Learned, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... imagine , if he had met the companions of the daughter of Jephthah , while she wandered up and down the mountains bewailing her virginity . a " While I was at Saphetta , " says this tra- veller , " many Turks departed from thence to ...
... imagine , if he had met the companions of the daughter of Jephthah , while she wandered up and down the mountains bewailing her virginity . a " While I was at Saphetta , " says this tra- veller , " many Turks departed from thence to ...
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... imagine . This enraged kind of mourning , if I may call it so , continued forty days ; not equally violent , but with diminution from day to day . The longest and most violent acts were when they washed the body , when they perfumed it ...
... imagine . This enraged kind of mourning , if I may call it so , continued forty days ; not equally violent , but with diminution from day to day . The longest and most violent acts were when they washed the body , when they perfumed it ...
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... imagine , that the passage I have transcribed from Irwin , relating to the mourn- ing of those Egyptian Arabs , for that merchant . that was slain in the desert , furnishes an excel- lent note on this passage of Josephus , accord- ing ...
... imagine , that the passage I have transcribed from Irwin , relating to the mourn- ing of those Egyptian Arabs , for that merchant . that was slain in the desert , furnishes an excel- lent note on this passage of Josephus , accord- ing ...
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... imagine to be very fond of noise , those of the lower class of people are wont to call in , on these occasions , certain women , who play on tabors , and whose business it is to sing mournful airs to the sound of this instrument , which ...
... imagine to be very fond of noise , those of the lower class of people are wont to call in , on these occasions , certain women , who play on tabors , and whose business it is to sing mournful airs to the sound of this instrument , which ...
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... imagine , that the first inscriptions on stones were engraved on some places of the rocks which were acci- dently smoothed , and made pretty even . And , in fact , we find some that are very ancient , engraved on the natural rock , and ...
... imagine , that the first inscriptions on stones were engraved on some places of the rocks which were acci- dently smoothed , and made pretty even . And , in fact , we find some that are very ancient , engraved on the natural rock , and ...
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OBSERVATIONS ON VARIOUS PASSAG, Volume 3 Thomas 1714-1788 Harmer,Adam 1760?-1832 Clarke No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 109 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 231 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 447 - And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.
Page 93 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 509 - Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not ; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert; and be healed.
Page 59 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 243 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 567 - And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood ; and that there may be blood throughout the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
Page 37 - Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come : and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Page 82 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.