Sociological Study of the BibleUniversity of Chicago Press, 1912 - 308 pages |
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... ancient history , it is in substance an inquiry into vital questions of today . Owing to the recent separation of Church and State , there is a tendency to take for granted that religion deals only with matters of belief about things ...
... ancient history , it is in substance an inquiry into vital questions of today . Owing to the recent separation of Church and State , there is a tendency to take for granted that religion deals only with matters of belief about things ...
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... ancient Israel finally came to be distinguished , is the result of a slow process of psychological , or spiritual , development , corresponding in some way to stages in the national history of the Hebrews . Professor George Adam Smith ...
... ancient Israel finally came to be distinguished , is the result of a slow process of psychological , or spiritual , development , corresponding in some way to stages in the national history of the Hebrews . Professor George Adam Smith ...
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... ancient world ; that the people's thought about him slowly rose to the height at which we find it in the great prophets and in Jesus ; and that this religious evolution was a process guided and controlled by the one true God of the ...
... ancient world ; that the people's thought about him slowly rose to the height at which we find it in the great prophets and in Jesus ; and that this religious evolution was a process guided and controlled by the one true God of the ...
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... ancient Greeks , who were the first to achieve emancipation from the reign of mythology . The beginnings of the process are described by Professor Bury , of Cambridge University , in his Harvard lectures on the ancient Greek historians ...
... ancient Greeks , who were the first to achieve emancipation from the reign of mythology . The beginnings of the process are described by Professor Bury , of Cambridge University , in his Harvard lectures on the ancient Greek historians ...
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... ancient Greeks was adjourned throughout the Middle Ages in Europe , and then taken up by modern historical scholars . One of the leading investigators of the problem of history was the great German scholar Niebuhr , who reconstructed ...
... ancient Greeks was adjourned throughout the Middle Ages in Europe , and then taken up by modern historical scholars . One of the leading investigators of the problem of history was the great German scholar Niebuhr , who reconstructed ...
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Page 162 - Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border, ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near? that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches...
Page 42 - The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 143 - And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him; and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Page 50 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 155 - Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead ; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord : and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
Page 36 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things : for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you : and the land is defiled : therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Page 222 - And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord...
Page 80 - I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God...
Page 162 - WOE to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds ! When the morning is light, they practise it, Because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; And houses, and take them away: So they oppress a man and his house, Even a man and his heritage.
Page 280 - It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the sacraments in the congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the congregation, to call and send ministers into the Lord's vineyard.