The Syrian ChristHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 425 pages |
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... fact that I was born not far from where the Master was born , and brought up under almost the identical conditions under which he lived , I have an " inside view " of the Bible which , by the nature of things , a Westerner cannot have ...
... fact that I was born not far from where the Master was born , and brought up under almost the identical conditions under which he lived , I have an " inside view " of the Bible which , by the nature of things , a Westerner cannot have ...
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... fact that such stories are found in the Bible shows that in my native land no such sifting of these narratives is ever under- taken when they are read to the people . From childhood I had been accustomed to hear them read at our church ...
... fact that such stories are found in the Bible shows that in my native land no such sifting of these narratives is ever under- taken when they are read to the people . From childhood I had been accustomed to hear them read at our church ...
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... fact that shortly after the wedding , the friends of the young couple , both men and women , begin to ask them about their " prospects " for an heir . No more does a prospective mother undertake in any way to disguise the signs of the ...
... fact that shortly after the wedding , the friends of the young couple , both men and women , begin to ask them about their " prospects " for an heir . No more does a prospective mother undertake in any way to disguise the signs of the ...
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... fact . To Eastern peoples , especially the Semites , reproduction in all the world of life is profoundly sacred . It is God's life reproducing itself in the life of man and in the living world below man ; therefore the evidences of this ...
... fact . To Eastern peoples , especially the Semites , reproduction in all the world of life is profoundly sacred . It is God's life reproducing itself in the life of man and in the living world below man ; therefore the evidences of this ...
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... fact , I have been so reconstructed under Anglo- Saxon auspices as to feel that the excessive re- serve of this race with regard to such things is not a serious fault , but rather the defect of a great virtue . My purpose is to show ...
... fact , I have been so reconstructed under Anglo- Saxon auspices as to feel that the excessive re- serve of this race with regard to such things is not a serious fault , but rather the defect of a great virtue . My purpose is to show ...
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