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George Paxton. m serves them frequently instead of an apron , in which they carry herbs , loaves , corn , and other articles , and may il- lustrate several allusions made to it in Scripture : Thus , " One of the sons of the prophets went ...
George Paxton. m serves them frequently instead of an apron , in which they carry herbs , loaves , corn , and other articles , and may il- lustrate several allusions made to it in Scripture : Thus , " One of the sons of the prophets went ...
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... carry their money in their girdles . Whence , in Horace , qui zonam perdidit , means one who had lost his purse ; and in Aulus Gellius , C. Gracchus is introduced , saying , Those girdles which I carried out full of money when I went ...
... carry their money in their girdles . Whence , in Horace , qui zonam perdidit , means one who had lost his purse ; and in Aulus Gellius , C. Gracchus is introduced , saying , Those girdles which I carried out full of money when I went ...
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... carrying their beds with them on their travels , as they often do in present times , the slaughter of fifteen had been sufficient , for in the east , as in other countries , every bed is provided with two sheets ; but he slew just ...
... carrying their beds with them on their travels , as they often do in present times , the slaughter of fifteen had been sufficient , for in the east , as in other countries , every bed is provided with two sheets ; but he slew just ...
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... carried captives to Babylon , their wives and daughters had arrived at the greatest degree of extra- vagance in dress . The prophet Isaiah gives a long list of the vestments , trinkets , and ornaments in use among the ladies of Israel ...
... carried captives to Babylon , their wives and daughters had arrived at the greatest degree of extra- vagance in dress . The prophet Isaiah gives a long list of the vestments , trinkets , and ornaments in use among the ladies of Israel ...
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... carried to great excess , but not of great value ; for in Bagdad , jewels of high price either are not to be had , or are not used ; and they wear such only as are of little value , as turquoises , small rubies , eme- ralds , carbuncles ...
... carried to great excess , but not of great value ; for in Bagdad , jewels of high price either are not to be had , or are not used ; and they wear such only as are of little value , as turquoises , small rubies , eme- ralds , carbuncles ...
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Page 415 - Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth : that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear : for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
Page 49 - Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Page 123 - And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that servant came and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in,...
Page 93 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him : but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. 25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
Page 157 - Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people : and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
Page 27 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the orna-ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 419 - And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee...
Page 453 - And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth ? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell. And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.
Page 97 - And He turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman ? I entered into thine house, thou gavest Me no water for My feet : but she hath washed My feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 256 - In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.