Works: With Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, Etc. and Explanatory Notes and ObservationsH.S. & J. Applegate & Company, 1851 - 648 pages |
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... CHAP . I. The Constitution of the World , and the Dispo- sition of the Elements . call it the Sabbath : which word denotes rest in the Hebrew tongue . 2 Moreover Moses , after the seventh day was over , * begins to talk philosophically ...
... CHAP . I. The Constitution of the World , and the Dispo- sition of the Elements . call it the Sabbath : which word denotes rest in the Hebrew tongue . 2 Moreover Moses , after the seventh day was over , * begins to talk philosophically ...
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... chap . ii . sect . 1 , before , and chap . iii . sect . 1 , hereafter , ] is exactly agreeable to the state of the world , and the conduct of Providence in all the first ages . Of Josephus's mistake here , when he took Seth , the son of ...
... chap . ii . sect . 1 , before , and chap . iii . sect . 1 , hereafter , ] is exactly agreeable to the state of the world , and the conduct of Providence in all the first ages . Of Josephus's mistake here , when he took Seth , the son of ...
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... CHAP . V. rites . Magog founded those that from him were named Magogites , but who are by the Greeks called Scythians . Now as to Javan and Madai , the sons of Japhet ; from Madai came the Me- deans , which are called Medes by the ...
... CHAP . V. rites . Magog founded those that from him were named Magogites , but who are by the Greeks called Scythians . Now as to Javan and Madai , the sons of Japhet ; from Madai came the Me- deans , which are called Medes by the ...
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... CHAP . VII . How Abram our Forefather went out of the Land of the Chaldeans , and lived in the land then called Canaan , but now Judea . 1. Now Abram , having no son of his own , adopted Lot , his brother Haran's son , and his wife ...
... CHAP . VII . How Abram our Forefather went out of the Land of the Chaldeans , and lived in the land then called Canaan , but now Judea . 1. Now Abram , having no son of his own , adopted Lot , his brother Haran's son , and his wife ...
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... CHAP . VIII . That when there was a Famine in Canaan , Abram went thence into Egypt ; and after he had con- tinued there awhile , he returned back again . 2. For whereas the Egyptians were formerly addicted to different customs , and ...
... CHAP . VIII . That when there was a Famine in Canaan , Abram went thence into Egypt ; and after he had con- tinued there awhile , he returned back again . 2. For whereas the Egyptians were formerly addicted to different customs , and ...
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Page 351 - They also believe, that souls have an immortal vigour in them, and that under the earth there will be rewards or punishments, according as they have lived virtuously or viciously in this life ; and the latter are to be detained in an everlasting prison, but that the former shall have power to revive and live again...
Page 234 - ... happened ; for Alexander, when he saw the multitude at a distance, in white garments, while the priests stood clothed with fine linen, and the high priest in purple and scarlet clothing, with his mitre on his head, having the golden plate whereon the name of God was engraved, he approached by himself, and adored that name, and first saluted the high priest.
Page 214 - Daniel did also declare the meaning of the stone to the king"; but I do not think proper to relate it, since I have only undertaken to describe things past or things present, but not things that are future...
Page 25 - ... made two pillars ;* the one of brick, the other of stone ; they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind ; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day.
Page 269 - I would now explain is this, that the Pharisees have delivered to the people a great many observances by succession from their fathers, which are not written in the laws of Moses; and for that reason it is that the Sadducees reject them, and say that we are to esteem those observances to be obligatory which are in the written word, but are not to observe what are derived from the tradition of our forefathers.
Page 318 - ... and this cloister deserves to be mentioned better than any other under the sun; for while the valley was very deep, and its bottom could not be seen, if you looked from above into the depth, this farther vastly high elevation of the cloister stood upon that height...
Page 128 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 316 - This is a very fine cave in a mountain, under which there is a great cavity in the earth ; and the cavern is abrupt, and prodigiously deep, and full of still water ; over it hangs a vast mountain ; and under the caverns arise the springs of the river Jordan. Herod adorned this place, which was already a very remarkable one, still farther, by the erection of this temple, which he dedicated to Caesar.