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Page 343 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, "Here we are?" Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Page 325 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Page 118 - For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell : neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
Page 331 - That the heart of stone became soft as wax — ' The bodies of the fishes at the bottom of the fish-ponds ' Burned like the silk which is exposed to the fire. ' Both the water and the air gave out so burning a heat, ' That the fish went away to seek refuge in the fire.
Page 331 - The horizon was so much scorched up by its rays, That the heart of stone became soft like wax: The bodies of the fishes, at the bottom of the fish-ponds, Burned like the silk which is exposed to the fire; Both the water and the air gave out so burning a heat, That the fish went away to seek refuge in the fire; In the plains the chase became a matter of perfect ease, For the desert was filled with roasted gazelles.
Page 119 - JHVH honour and praise," and he remarks on the passage : — " Judaism has turned the heathen gods into angels, commissioned by JHVH to govern the various nations." The earlier idea may possibly have been, that JHVH was the supreme god under whom the gods of the peoples exercised a delegated power. According to a very learned and entirely " orthodox " writer JHVH is to be identified, or rather His origin is to be traced, to Ea, or Ya, or Sin...
Page 449 - The objects contemplated by this Society shall be: — 1. The cultivation of learning in the Asiatic, African, and Polynesian languages, as well as the encouragement of researches of any sort, by which the knowledge of the East may be promoted.
Page 121 - Socinianism, misnamed Unitarianism, is not only not Christianity, it is not even religion, it does not religate; does not bind anew. The first outward and sensible result of prayer is, a penitent resolution, joined with a consciousness of weakness in effecting it, yea even a dread, too well grounded, lest by breaking and falsifying it, the soul should add guilt to guilt; by the very means it has taken to escape from...
Page 330 - The heat was so intense that it burned the marrow in the bones, the sword in its scabbard melted like wax, and the gems that adorned the handle of the dagger were reduced to coal. In the plains the chase became a matter of perfect ease, for the desert was filled with roasted gazelles...
Page 192 - He must not suck his fingers in the course of eating ; but after he has eaten, he may, or rather ought, as there is scripture warrant for it. " Let him not look from dish to dish, nor smell the food, nor pick and choose it. If there should be one dish better than the rest, let him not be greedy on his own account, but let him offer it to others.