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Page 262 - Keep therefore and do them: for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 160 - And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre : and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Page 248 - But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Page 250 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 20 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Page 31 - Love righteousness, ye that be judges of the earth, Think ye of the Lord with a good mind, And in singleness of heart seek ye him. Because he is found of them that tempt him not, and is manifested to them that do not distrust him.
Page 112 - A man on a rapid stream near a cataract, may neglect to make efforts to reach the shore, until it is too late. And so in religion. It is easy to put it off from childhood to youth ; from youth to manhood ; from manhood to old age> until it shall bo loo late.
Page 179 - Now I was a child of parts, and a good soul fell to my lot; nay rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled.
Page 262 - For what nation is there so great, who hath GOD so nigh unto them, as the LORD our GOD is in all things that we call upon him for ? And what nation is there so great, that hath -statutes and judgments so righteous, as all this law which 1 set before you this day ? , . Only take heed to thyself, and keep.
Page 221 - Now the vestment of the high priest being made of linen, signified the earth; the blue denoted the sky, being like lightning in its pomegranates, and in the noise of the bells resembling thunder.