The Doctrine of the Deluge: Vindicating the Scriptural Account from the Doubts which Have Recently Been Cast Upon it by Geological Speculations, Volume 2Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 - Bible and geology |
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... Pillars . - In India , Japan , Emesa , Babylonia , Tauric Chersonese . Venus . Caaba . Explanation of the Tyrian Hercules and Astarte . — Joshua's Pillars . — Other In- stances from the Old Testament of sacred Stones CHAP . XXIV ...
... Pillars . - In India , Japan , Emesa , Babylonia , Tauric Chersonese . Venus . Caaba . Explanation of the Tyrian Hercules and Astarte . — Joshua's Pillars . — Other In- stances from the Old Testament of sacred Stones CHAP . XXIV ...
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... pillars.1 We may observe in passing , that the sacredness of the number seven among other nations , as well as the Jews , is a strong argument , that the seventh day was kept holy by the Noachida2 ; and this is the best explanation that ...
... pillars.1 We may observe in passing , that the sacredness of the number seven among other nations , as well as the Jews , is a strong argument , that the seventh day was kept holy by the Noachida2 ; and this is the best explanation that ...
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... pillar stones . Of the same nature was the sanctuary dedicated to Oga , the Ogygian or diluvian deity , by Lacedæmon . M. Fourmont was informed by the peasants of that town , that about 500 yards off a copse covered a kind of grotto ...
... pillar stones . Of the same nature was the sanctuary dedicated to Oga , the Ogygian or diluvian deity , by Lacedæmon . M. Fourmont was informed by the peasants of that town , that about 500 yards off a copse covered a kind of grotto ...
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... pillars ; and so they were : for they were sacred to him , and so were the Stelæ , if they ever existed , whether of brass , or of more precious metal , which he is said to have raised somewhere in that neighbourhood as monuments of his ...
... pillars ; and so they were : for they were sacred to him , and so were the Stelæ , if they ever existed , whether of brass , or of more precious metal , which he is said to have raised somewhere in that neighbourhood as monuments of his ...
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... pillars were monuments of his voyage to Ery- theia ; for he was no pirate , or freebooter , but the divinity of the place , and not only had a temple on the north side of the straits , but also a sacred cave on the other in a mountain ...
... pillars were monuments of his voyage to Ery- theia ; for he was no pirate , or freebooter , but the divinity of the place , and not only had a temple on the north side of the straits , but also a sacred cave on the other in a mountain ...
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Page 376 - 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 530 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Page 420 - Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...
Page 558 - Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all ; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world...
Page 423 - Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them...
Page 526 - And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem ; half of .them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
Page 557 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Page 548 - Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of Me ; and that cover with a covering, but not of My spirit, that they may add sin to sin...
Page 568 - He gave Himself for the Church, "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing ; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Page 534 - The like figure whereunto, even Baptism, doth also now save us (not the putting away -the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards GOD...