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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... 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 that men alsc cught to strive after the participation of it ...
... 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 that men alsc cught to strive after the participation of it ...
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... wicked behaviour , went out of the way . This behaviour furprised God ; and he asked what was the cause of this his procedure ; and why he that before de- lighted in that converfation , did now fly from it , and avoid it ? When he made ...
... wicked behaviour , went out of the way . This behaviour furprised God ; and he asked what was the cause of this his procedure ; and why he that before de- lighted in that converfation , did now fly from it , and avoid it ? When he made ...
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... wicked in other refpects , but was wholly intent upon get- ting ; and he firft contrived to plough the ground . He flew his brother on the occafion following : They had refolved to fa- crifice to God . Now Cain brought the fruits of the ...
... wicked in other refpects , but was wholly intent upon get- ting ; and he firft contrived to plough the ground . He flew his brother on the occafion following : They had refolved to fa- crifice to God . Now Cain brought the fruits of the ...
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... wicked courfes . He alfo introduc- ed a change in that way of fimplicity wherein men lived be- fore ; and was the author of meafures and weights . And whereas they lived innocently and generously while they knew nothing of fuch arts ...
... wicked courfes . He alfo introduc- ed a change in that way of fimplicity wherein men lived be- fore ; and was the author of meafures and weights . And whereas they lived innocently and generously while they knew nothing of fuch arts ...
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Flavius Josephus. dying one after another , more wicked than the former . They were intolerable in war , and vehement in robberies ; and if any one were flow to murder people , yet was he bold in his profligate behaviour , in acting ...
Flavius Josephus. dying one after another , more wicked than the former . They were intolerable in war , and vehement in robberies ; and if any one were flow to murder people , yet was he bold in his profligate behaviour , in acting ...
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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.