The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measuresFor Thomas and Andrews, Boston, and Isaiah Thomas, Jun., Worcester, 1809 |
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... minds to God ; and to ex- amine the mind of our Legislator , whether he hath not understood his nature in a manner worthy of him ; and hath not ever ascribed to him such operations as become his power , and hath not preserved his ...
... minds to God ; and to ex- amine the mind of our Legislator , whether he hath not understood his nature in a manner worthy of him ; and hath not ever ascribed to him such operations as become his power , and hath not preserved his ...
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... mind to know the reasons of every thing , may Find here a very curious philosophical theory , which I now indeed shall wave the explication of , but if God afford me time for it , * I will set about writing it , after I have finished ...
... mind to know the reasons of every thing , may Find here a very curious philosophical theory , which I now indeed shall wave the explication of , but if God afford me time for it , * I will set about writing it , after I have finished ...
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... not very long fince a mind to tee the place kimielf , but met with too great dangers and difficulties to venture through them . not be deprived of any of thofe good things which Chap . III . ] ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS . 19.
... not very long fince a mind to tee the place kimielf , but met with too great dangers and difficulties to venture through them . not be deprived of any of thofe good things which Chap . III . ] ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS . 19.
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... his power . He allo faid , " He would be revenged on God , if he fhould have a mind to " drown the world again ; for that he would build a tower too 66 " high for the waters to be able to reach Chap . IV . ] ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS . 21.
... his power . He allo faid , " He would be revenged on God , if he fhould have a mind to " drown the world again ; for that he would build a tower too 66 " high for the waters to be able to reach Chap . IV . ] ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS . 21.
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... mind the advantages they received from him . They hated strangers , and abused themselves with Sod- omitical practices . God was therefore much difpleafed at them , and determined to punish them for their pride , and to overthrow their ...
... mind the advantages they received from him . They hated strangers , and abused themselves with Sod- omitical practices . God was therefore much difpleafed at them , and determined to punish them for their pride , and to overthrow their ...
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Abfalom Abimelech Accordingly affiftance againſt Ahab alfo alſo altar Amaziah Ammonites Antiq army Babylon becauſe befides Benhadad brought caft called Canaan Canaanites caufe CHAP commanded cubits David death defired deftroyed deftruction Egypt Egyptians enemies facrifices faid fame father feaft feems felf fend fent fervants feven fhall fhewed fhould fight filver fince firft flain flew fome foon foretold ftill ftones fuch fuffer fuppofe gave hath Hebrews himſelf honour houfe houſe hundred Ifrael Ifraelites Jeroboam Jerufalem Jews Joab Jofephus Jofephus's king king's kingdom land laws Mofes moft moſt multitude obferved occafion paffed perfon perfuaded Philiftines pleaſed pofterity prefent preferve priests promifed prophet punishment reafon refolved reft reign Samaria Saul Solomon Syria tabernacle temple thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thoufand told took tribe tribe of Judah uſe whofe wicked wife worship
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Page 15 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And, that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars...
Page 24 - For of the four sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Chus; for the Ethiopians, over whom he reigned, are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites.
Page 375 - ... 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 16 - For many angels" of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.