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... usage of speech . Hence we become acquainted with the force and use of the tenses , moods , inflexions , articles and particles ; and then the con- nexions of words , and the forms of speech . OF THE NEW 211 TESTAMENT .
... usage of speech . Hence we become acquainted with the force and use of the tenses , moods , inflexions , articles and particles ; and then the con- nexions of words , and the forms of speech . OF THE NEW 211 TESTAMENT .
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... tenses of Hebrew verbs and their poetical character . Conjunction of many ideas in one word . Significancy of Hebrew letters . How to be de- cyphered . Of parallelism . Founded in that correspondence of quantity which pleases the car ...
... tenses of Hebrew verbs and their poetical character . Conjunction of many ideas in one word . Significancy of Hebrew letters . How to be de- cyphered . Of parallelism . Founded in that correspondence of quantity which pleases the car ...
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... and in what a language ! How imperfect is it ! how poor in proper terms and defi- nitely expressed relations ! How unfixed and uncertain are the tenses of the verbs ! One never knows whether 326 ON THE SPIRIT OF HEBREW POETRY .
... and in what a language ! How imperfect is it ! how poor in proper terms and defi- nitely expressed relations ! How unfixed and uncertain are the tenses of the verbs ! One never knows whether 326 ON THE SPIRIT OF HEBREW POETRY .
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the tenses of the verbs ! One never knows whether the time referred to by them be to day or yesterday , a thous- and years ago , or a thousand years to come . Adjectives , so important in description , it scarcely has at all , and must ...
the tenses of the verbs ! One never knows whether the time referred to by them be to day or yesterday , a thous- and years ago , or a thousand years to come . Adjectives , so important in description , it scarcely has at all , and must ...
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... tenses of the Hebrew are after all essentially aorists , that is , un- defined tenses , that fluctuate between the past , the present , and the future , and thus it has in fact but one tense . E. Does poetry employ more ? To this all is ...
... tenses of the Hebrew are after all essentially aorists , that is , un- defined tenses , that fluctuate between the past , the present , and the future , and thus it has in fact but one tense . E. Does poetry employ more ? To this all is ...
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Page 42 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 287 - If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy. gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God...
Page 47 - Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection ; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Page 588 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Page 289 - Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Page 604 - I confess not to open without a secret reverence of their holiness and gravity ; sometimes, to those later doctors, which want nothing but age to make them classical : always to God's Book. That day is lost whereof some hours are not improved in those Divine Monuments : others I turn over out of choice ; these out of duty.
Page 43 - And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
Page 289 - Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Page 603 - That done, after some while meditation, I walk up to my masters and companions, my books ; and, sitting down amongst them, with the best contentment, I dare not reach forth my hand to salute any of them till I have first looked up to heaven, and craved favour of Him to whom all my studies are duly referred, without whom I can neither profit nor labour.
Page 604 - Now, when the mind is weary of other labours, it begins to undertake her own ; sometimes it meditates and winds up for future use ; sometimes it lays forth her conceits into present discourse ; sometimes for itself, ofter for others. Neither know I whether it works or plays in these thoughts ; I am sure no sport hath more pleasure, no work more use ; only the decay of a weak body makes me think these delights insensibly laborious.