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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... most excellent of the creatures of God upon earth . Josephus here plainly alludes to the famous Greek proverb , If God be with , every thing that is impossible becomes possible . Now when once he had brought them to submit to PREFACE . 5.
... most excellent of the creatures of God upon earth . Josephus here plainly alludes to the famous Greek proverb , If God be with , every thing that is impossible becomes possible . Now when once he had brought them to submit to PREFACE . 5.
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... most reproachful of human vices unto the gods , and so afforded wicked men the most plausible excuses for their crimes ; but as for our legislator , when he had once demonstrated that God was pos- sessed of perfect virtue , he supposed ...
... most reproachful of human vices unto the gods , and so afforded wicked men the most plausible excuses for their crimes ; but as for our legislator , when he had once demonstrated that God was pos- sessed of perfect virtue , he supposed ...
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... most fortunate nation , beyond others . Arphaxad named the Arphaxadites , who are now called Chaldeans . Aram had the Áramites , which the Greeks call Syrian ; as Laud founded the Laudites , which are now called Lydians . Of the four ...
... most fortunate nation , beyond others . Arphaxad named the Arphaxadites , who are now called Chaldeans . Aram had the Áramites , which the Greeks call Syrian ; as Laud founded the Laudites , which are now called Lydians . Of the four ...
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... most numerous bodies of men , while he got the victory over fo great an army with no more than three hundred and eighteen of his fervants , and three of his friends . But all those that fled returned home in- gloriously . 2. So Abram ...
... most numerous bodies of men , while he got the victory over fo great an army with no more than three hundred and eighteen of his fervants , and three of his friends . But all those that fled returned home in- gloriously . 2. So Abram ...
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... most important and moft eminent proinife , " In thy feed shall all the families of the earth be bleffed . " He faith not of feeds , as of many , but as of one ; and to thy feed , which is Chriít , " Gal iii . 16. Nor is it any wonder ...
... most important and moft eminent proinife , " In thy feed shall all the families of the earth be bleffed . " He faith not of feeds , as of many , but as of one ; and to thy feed , which is Chriít , " Gal iii . 16. Nor is it any wonder ...
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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.