Biblical Repository and Quarterly ObserverJ. M. Sherwood., 1840 |
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... plain and the great southern valley to the Red Sea , was no longer tenable ; and the still earlier one of a subterranean lake covered with a stratum of asphaltum and earth , on which stood the cities of the plain , seemed the mere ...
... plain and the great southern valley to the Red Sea , was no longer tenable ; and the still earlier one of a subterranean lake covered with a stratum of asphaltum and earth , on which stood the cities of the plain , seemed the mere ...
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stood in the southern part of the plain or valley now occu- pied by , or adjacent to the sea . We supposed too , that their catastrophe must have had some connexion with the pits of asphaltum ( slime - pits , Gen. 14 : 10 , ) which ...
stood in the southern part of the plain or valley now occu- pied by , or adjacent to the sea . We supposed too , that their catastrophe must have had some connexion with the pits of asphaltum ( slime - pits , Gen. 14 : 10 , ) which ...
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... plain . I should be highly gratified if Prof. Silliman , or Prof. Hitchcock , or others of our American geologists , would look at the subject , and lay the result of their reflections before the public . Yours in Christian bonds ...
... plain . I should be highly gratified if Prof. Silliman , or Prof. Hitchcock , or others of our American geologists , would look at the subject , and lay the result of their reflections before the public . Yours in Christian bonds ...
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... plain . But this , as is now known , cannot have been the case ; at least not within the times to which history reaches back . Every circumstance goes to show , that a lake must have existed in this place , into which the Jordan poured ...
... plain . But this , as is now known , cannot have been the case ; at least not within the times to which history reaches back . Every circumstance goes to show , that a lake must have existed in this place , into which the Jordan poured ...
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... plain remain to attest the accuracy of the historian ; but the pits of asphaltum are no longer to be seen . Did they disappear in consequence of the catastrophe of the plain ? The southern part of the Lead Sea has a singular configu ...
... plain remain to attest the accuracy of the historian ; but the pits of asphaltum are no longer to be seen . Did they disappear in consequence of the catastrophe of the plain ? The southern part of the Lead Sea has a singular configu ...
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Page 498 - Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen ; to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
Page 362 - Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God : and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come ; and even now already is it in the world.
Page 161 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry; Abba, Father.
Page 406 - How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Page 426 - Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Page 274 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Page 425 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page 406 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.
Page 488 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 80 - Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast up, cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people.