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... Scripture fays of it , is to be understood in an allegorical fense : others , who allowed the reality of paradise , have fwerved fo far from the letter , as to fuppofe it not to be fituated on any part of this terreftrial globe . They ...
... Scripture fays of it , is to be understood in an allegorical fense : others , who allowed the reality of paradise , have fwerved fo far from the letter , as to fuppofe it not to be fituated on any part of this terreftrial globe . They ...
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... Scripture , which had the leaft appearance of difficulty in them ; and partly from the lit- tle agreement to be found betwixt the geography of Mo- fes , and that of the heathen authors , whofe imperfections are not yet , perhaps ...
... Scripture , which had the leaft appearance of difficulty in them ; and partly from the lit- tle agreement to be found betwixt the geography of Mo- fes , and that of the heathen authors , whofe imperfections are not yet , perhaps ...
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... Scripture , as often as the other two ; and there is the more reason to believe it , because the scenes of these three remarkable events are laid in the neighbourhood of one another , in the Mofaical hiftory ; but the Jews having ...
... Scripture , as often as the other two ; and there is the more reason to believe it , because the scenes of these three remarkable events are laid in the neighbourhood of one another , in the Mofaical hiftory ; but the Jews having ...
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... Scripture , where Eden is mentioned , con- cur to establish it fomewhere hereabouts . The Prophet , fpeaking of Tyre , fays , Haran , and Canneh , and Eden , were thy merchants . Now if Canneh be Calneh , or Ca- lyo , which is taken to ...
... Scripture , where Eden is mentioned , con- cur to establish it fomewhere hereabouts . The Prophet , fpeaking of Tyre , fays , Haran , and Canneh , and Eden , were thy merchants . Now if Canneh be Calneh , or Ca- lyo , which is taken to ...
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... Scripture ufes both occa- fionally ; fometimes accommodating itself to the capacities of the people , and at other times to the real , but more veiled truth ; and that , to obviate the many difficulties which occur in the literal ...
... Scripture ufes both occa- fionally ; fometimes accommodating itself to the capacities of the people , and at other times to the real , but more veiled truth ; and that , to obviate the many difficulties which occur in the literal ...
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Page 178 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 64 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 33 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
Page 110 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 6 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 417 - And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD...
Page 131 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 112 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 183 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 112 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.