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... land left desolate , and the sacred vessels of his Temple seized by profane hands to adorn the pride and swell the drunken orgies of Babylon . Years later , and his sacred city of Jerusalem is given up to pillage and massacre under the ...
... land left desolate , and the sacred vessels of his Temple seized by profane hands to adorn the pride and swell the drunken orgies of Babylon . Years later , and his sacred city of Jerusalem is given up to pillage and massacre under the ...
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... land . Indeed , nothing shows more plainly the vitality of the Hebrews than that , by sheer force of intellect , they should have worked their way to the front , in defiance of obstacles which to other races would have been ...
... land . Indeed , nothing shows more plainly the vitality of the Hebrews than that , by sheer force of intellect , they should have worked their way to the front , in defiance of obstacles which to other races would have been ...
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... Land , for it is supposed that if his body is buried else- where , angels come and punish it very severely ; but that burial in Jerusalem exempts it from all such punishment . It is also believed that if his body is interred in any ...
... Land , for it is supposed that if his body is buried else- where , angels come and punish it very severely ; but that burial in Jerusalem exempts it from all such punishment . It is also believed that if his body is interred in any ...
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... land shall be iron . " There in front of me was the Holy City revealing , as I turned round to examine it , the whole circuit of its. JEWS AT THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM . LIGHTING THE SABBATII LAMP . CHAPTER IV JEWS IN JERUSALEM-THE FAST OF ...
... land shall be iron . " There in front of me was the Holy City revealing , as I turned round to examine it , the whole circuit of its. JEWS AT THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM . LIGHTING THE SABBATII LAMP . CHAPTER IV JEWS IN JERUSALEM-THE FAST OF ...
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... Land they enjoy the protection of their respective con- suls , and are on that account less oppressed by the local government . These two bodies are again divided into two sects the Perooshim ( Pharisees ) and Chasidim ( Pious ) , each ...
... Land they enjoy the protection of their respective con- suls , and are on that account less oppressed by the local government . These two bodies are again divided into two sects the Perooshim ( Pharisees ) and Chasidim ( Pious ) , each ...
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Page 195 - 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 196 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 197 - And I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
Page 200 - And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob : for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes : but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers
Page 69 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered ; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Page 13 - ... thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Page 103 - Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's : for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Page 104 - 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 195 - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope...
Page 196 - The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem ; and the heavens and the earth shall shake : but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.