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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... rest Epaphroditus , a man who is a lover of all kind of learning , but is principally delighted with the knowledge of history , and this or account of his having been himself concerned in great affairs , and many turns of fortune , and ...
... rest Epaphroditus , a man who is a lover of all kind of learning , but is principally delighted with the knowledge of history , and this or account of his having been himself concerned in great affairs , and many turns of fortune , and ...
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... rest of the second and the third chapters in some enigmatical , or allegorical , or philofophical fente . The change of the name of God jull at this place , from Flohim to Jehovah Elohim ; from God to Lord God , ile Hebrew , Samaritan ...
... rest of the second and the third chapters in some enigmatical , or allegorical , or philofophical fente . The change of the name of God jull at this place , from Flohim to Jehovah Elohim ; from God to Lord God , ile Hebrew , Samaritan ...
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... rest of the plants , but to abftain from the tree of knowledge ; and foretold to them , that if they touched it , it would prove their deftruction . But while all the living crea- tures had one language at that time the ferpent , which ...
... rest of the plants , but to abftain from the tree of knowledge ; and foretold to them , that if they touched it , it would prove their deftruction . But while all the living crea- tures had one language at that time the ferpent , which ...
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... rest of man- kind , Jofephus himself confeffes their lives were much longer than 120 years , for many generations after the flood , as we fhall fee prefently ; and he lays they were gradually shortened till the days of Mofes , and then ...
... rest of man- kind , Jofephus himself confeffes their lives were much longer than 120 years , for many generations after the flood , as we fhall fee prefently ; and he lays they were gradually shortened till the days of Mofes , and then ...
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... rest of the guests had for their fhares . 7. Now when after fupper they had compofed themselves to fleep , Jofeph commanded his fteward both to give them their meafures of corn , and to hide its price again in their facks ; and that ...
... rest of the guests had for their fhares . 7. Now when after fupper they had compofed themselves to fleep , Jofeph commanded his fteward both to give them their meafures of corn , and to hide its price again in their facks ; and that ...
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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.