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What a monotony there is in the record of his calamities , -calamities by which other nations would have been swept away , and yet the Jew remains ! The existence of the race of Israel and the truth of the inspired Scriptures go hand in ...
What a monotony there is in the record of his calamities , -calamities by which other nations would have been swept away , and yet the Jew remains ! The existence of the race of Israel and the truth of the inspired Scriptures go hand in ...
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But whilst nations the most advanced in civilisation have mitigated or removed their mediæval severities against the Jew , those which are most behindhand remain his cruel persecutors . The Mohammedans have always been the bitterest ...
But whilst nations the most advanced in civilisation have mitigated or removed their mediæval severities against the Jew , those which are most behindhand remain his cruel persecutors . The Mohammedans have always been the bitterest ...
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He had not long to remain expectant , for the bridegroom , attended by his father , very shortly afterwards entered the courtyard , and took his stand under the canopy , all around crying out , “ Blessed is he that cometh !
He had not long to remain expectant , for the bridegroom , attended by his father , very shortly afterwards entered the courtyard , and took his stand under the canopy , all around crying out , “ Blessed is he that cometh !
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All the mourners now bent down , and cast three times a handful of earth upon the remains of the departed , uttering at the same time a prayer praising the justice of God in inflicting death . After this the procession quitted the ...
All the mourners now bent down , and cast three times a handful of earth upon the remains of the departed , uttering at the same time a prayer praising the justice of God in inflicting death . After this the procession quitted the ...
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It is hard to touch pitch and remain undefiled ; it is hard to be surrounded by those who ridicule their own religion , neglect the Sabbath , and devote all their time and energies to vanity , frivolity , and vice , without being more ...
It is hard to touch pitch and remain undefiled ; it is hard to be surrounded by those who ridicule their own religion , neglect the Sabbath , and devote all their time and energies to vanity , frivolity , and vice , without being more ...
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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.