The Signs of the Times: As Denoted by the Fulfilment of Historical Predictions : Traced Down from the Babylonish Captivity to the Present Time, Volume 1Jonathan Leavitt, 1832 - Bible |
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... Human wisdom is not in any thing more speedily set at nought than when it counts the chances , and attempts to define the issue , of international wars and intestine commotions . But though , in the evo- lution of ordinary events , the ...
... Human wisdom is not in any thing more speedily set at nought than when it counts the chances , and attempts to define the issue , of international wars and intestine commotions . But though , in the evo- lution of ordinary events , the ...
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... human view , of the kingdoms that were respectively and successively to arise upon the earth . The greatness of their power was desig- nated ; but no intimation was given of their duration . They were to arise and prosper and fall ...
... human view , of the kingdoms that were respectively and successively to arise upon the earth . The greatness of their power was desig- nated ; but no intimation was given of their duration . They were to arise and prosper and fall ...
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... human state . ” * Dan . vii . 4 . The second kingdom , as in the former vision , was the Persian , which possessed the ferocity of the bear , by which it was characterised . The Babylonians conquered for the sake of aggrandizing Babylon ...
... human state . ” * Dan . vii . 4 . The second kingdom , as in the former vision , was the Persian , which possessed the ferocity of the bear , by which it was characterised . The Babylonians conquered for the sake of aggrandizing Babylon ...
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... human estimation , or in the vision of a king , of a brightness that was excel- lent - were prefigured by the great image which was seen by Nebuchadnezzar , and interpreted by Daniel . Looking again to the forms which they assumed in ...
... human estimation , or in the vision of a king , of a brightness that was excel- lent - were prefigured by the great image which was seen by Nebuchadnezzar , and interpreted by Daniel . Looking again to the forms which they assumed in ...
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... human imaginations have here to be prostrated , how the idle strife of words , or any wrangling con- tention , befits not such a subject , and that it becomes not any man to vaunt of any interpretation of any word as his . The humble ...
... human imaginations have here to be prostrated , how the idle strife of words , or any wrangling con- tention , befits not such a subject , and that it becomes not any man to vaunt of any interpretation of any word as his . The humble ...
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