The Syrian ChristHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 425 pages |
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Page 12
... wives , in dreams and visions , and cheered them with the promise of maternity . It was nothing un common for such women to spend a whole night in a shrine " wrestling in prayer , ” either with the blessed Virgin or some other saint ...
... wives , in dreams and visions , and cheered them with the promise of maternity . It was nothing un common for such women to spend a whole night in a shrine " wrestling in prayer , ” either with the blessed Virgin or some other saint ...
Page 16
... wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost . And she shall bring forth a son , and thou shalt call his name Jesus ; for he shall save his people from their sins . " In this manner the promise is made to the waiting ...
... wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost . And she shall bring forth a son , and thou shalt call his name Jesus ; for he shall save his people from their sins . " In this manner the promise is made to the waiting ...
Page 23
... wife . When Rebecca was about to depart from her father's house to become Isaac's wife , her mother's ardent and effusively expressed wish for her was , " Be thou the mother of thousands of millions . " This mother's last message to her ...
... wife . When Rebecca was about to depart from her father's house to become Isaac's wife , her mother's ardent and effusively expressed wish for her was , " Be thou the mother of thousands of millions . " This mother's last message to her ...
Page 92
... wife widowed " ; and similar expressions . Does not this sound exactly like the one hundred and ninth Psalm ? Speaking of his enemy , the writer of that psalm says , " Let his days be few , and let another take his office . Let his ...
... wife widowed " ; and similar expressions . Does not this sound exactly like the one hundred and ninth Psalm ? Speaking of his enemy , the writer of that psalm says , " Let his days be few , and let another take his office . Let his ...
Page 98
... wife , " should be rendered , " If the man consent not " ; and in the fourth chapter of Amos , the fifth verse , " For this liketh you , O ye chil- dren of Israel , " is in the original , " For this ye loved , O ye children of Israel ...
... wife , " should be rendered , " If the man consent not " ; and in the fourth chapter of Amos , the fifth verse , " For this liketh you , O ye chil- dren of Israel , " is in the original , " For this ye loved , O ye children of Israel ...
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