The Connection Between the Sacred Writings and the Literature of Jewish and Heathen Authors: Particulary that of the Classical Ages, Illustrated, Principally with a View to Evidence in Confimation of the Truth of Revealed Religion, Volume 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1819 |
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... obtained . It is probable in itself , and there are histori- cal accounts which confirm the belief , that parts of the Sacred Writings , in the original lan- guage , were occasionally shewn to the Hea- thens ; as the Prophecies of ...
... obtained . It is probable in itself , and there are histori- cal accounts which confirm the belief , that parts of the Sacred Writings , in the original lan- guage , were occasionally shewn to the Hea- thens ; as the Prophecies of ...
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... obtained also , in other languages , before the time of Christ . Such a work , however , as the Septuagint , made under royal pa- tronage , at a period when literature flou- rished , and when Alexandria , was the resort of learned men ...
... obtained also , in other languages , before the time of Christ . Such a work , however , as the Septuagint , made under royal pa- tronage , at a period when literature flou- rished , and when Alexandria , was the resort of learned men ...
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... obtaining sacred in- formation , as well as the influence of the opinions which they held on their lives and characters . The principal design however of the work is to promote an acquaintance with the evi- dence of revealed religion ...
... obtaining sacred in- formation , as well as the influence of the opinions which they held on their lives and characters . The principal design however of the work is to promote an acquaintance with the evi- dence of revealed religion ...
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... obtained . It would be an endless task to turn over the volumes of antiquity , in order to draw forth every just and reasonable opinion which is to be found among the errors of the Heathen mythology , with respect to the nature of the ...
... obtained . It would be an endless task to turn over the volumes of antiquity , in order to draw forth every just and reasonable opinion which is to be found among the errors of the Heathen mythology , with respect to the nature of the ...
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... obtain a considerable authority . He endea- voured also to strengthen his influence by imi- tating the circumstances , which had conferred a lustre on the Hebrew legislator , and by pretending to distinctions of divine favour and ...
... obtain a considerable authority . He endea- voured also to strengthen his influence by imi- tating the circumstances , which had conferred a lustre on the Hebrew legislator , and by pretending to distinctions of divine favour and ...
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Page 192 - I girded thee, though thou hast not known me : That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness : I make peace, and create evil : I the LORD do all these things.
Page 191 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight ; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.
Page 329 - For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved : but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Page 191 - And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, And hidden riches of secret places, That thou mayest know that I, the Lord, Which call thee by thy name, Am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake, And Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name : I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
Page 191 - I will raise up the decayed places thereof ; that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers : that saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure : even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 181 - Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto the choice vine; He washed his garments in wine, And his clothes in the blood of grapes : His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk.
Page 200 - I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Page 80 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Page 56 - And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Page 121 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.