Works: To which are Added Three Dissertations Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, Etc. With a Complete Index to the WholeLeavitt and Allen, 1860 - 879 pages |
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... thousand of the best of my armed men , and divided them into three bodies , and ordered them to go privately , and lie still as an am- bush , in the villages . I also led a thousand 64. But on the next day , I brought th into another ...
... thousand of the best of my armed men , and divided them into three bodies , and ordered them to go privately , and lie still as an am- bush , in the villages . I also led a thousand 64. But on the next day , I brought th into another ...
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... thousand armed men , and a sirous of innovations , and having hopes of captain over them , whose name was Jeremiah , obtaining the government of Galilee , as well who raised a bank a furlong off Julias , near as of his own country ...
... thousand armed men , and a sirous of innovations , and having hopes of captain over them , whose name was Jeremiah , obtaining the government of Galilee , as well who raised a bank a furlong off Julias , near as of his own country ...
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... thousand years ; in which time happened many strange accidents , many chances of war , and great actions of the commanders , and mutations of the form of our government . Upon the whole , a man that will peruse this history , may ...
... thousand years ; in which time happened many strange accidents , many chances of war , and great actions of the commanders , and mutations of the form of our government . Upon the whole , a man that will peruse this history , may ...
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... thousand that were able to go to prescribed to them to rest from working every war , from twenty to fifty years of age , besides seventh day ; and ordered , that then what grew three thousand six hundred and fifty . Instead of its own ...
... thousand that were able to go to prescribed to them to rest from working every war , from twenty to fifty years of age , besides seventh day ; and ordered , that then what grew three thousand six hundred and fifty . Instead of its own ...
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... thousand , taking an equal num- ber out of every tribe , and appointed Phineas for their commander ; of which ... thousand , instead of twenty - four thousand , is so flagrant , that our very learned editors , Bernard and Hudson , have ...
... thousand , taking an equal num- ber out of every tribe , and appointed Phineas for their commander ; of which ... thousand , instead of twenty - four thousand , is so flagrant , that our very learned editors , Bernard and Hudson , have ...
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Page 135 - And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation ; and not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Page 199 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 216 - He composed such incantations also by which distempers are alleviated. And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which they drive away demons, so that they never return, and this method of cure is of great force unto this day ; for I have seen a certain man of my own country, whose name was Eleazar, releasing people that were demoniacal in the presence of Vespasian, and his sons, and his captains, and the whole multitude of his soldiers.
Page 290 - 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 34 - There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved; and that one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon the top of it; and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved. This might be the man about whom Moses the legislator of the Jews wrote.
Page 216 - ... more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed. And when Eleazar would persuade and demonstrate to the spectators that he had such a power, he set a little way off a cup or basin full of water, and commanded the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man...
Page 216 - He put a ring that had a root of one of those sorts mentioned by Solomon to the nostrils of the demoniac, after which he drew out the demon through his nostrils ; and when the man fell down immediately, he abjured him to return into him no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed.
Page 35 - Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God ; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work. And, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect...
Page 311 - ... and the high priest in purple and scarlet clothing, with his mitre on his head, having the golden plate whereon the name of God was engraved, he approached by himself, and adored that name, and first saluted the high priest.