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... Messiah . On the death of Herod , the government was divided between his three sons . Judea and Samaria were given to Archelaus , whose op- pressive administration induced the Jews and Samaritans to write a petition to the emperor , in ...
... Messiah . On the death of Herod , the government was divided between his three sons . Judea and Samaria were given to Archelaus , whose op- pressive administration induced the Jews and Samaritans to write a petition to the emperor , in ...
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... Messiah ; but they looked not for a spiritual teacher , but a tempora ! monarch , who would free them from the Roman yoke , aggrandize their nation , render Jerusalem the metropolis of the world , and after subduing all their ene- mies ...
... Messiah ; but they looked not for a spiritual teacher , but a tempora ! monarch , who would free them from the Roman yoke , aggrandize their nation , render Jerusalem the metropolis of the world , and after subduing all their ene- mies ...
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... Messiah as a temporal deliverer , and impatiently waited for the commencement of his splendid reign , with the hope of partici- pating in his conquests and glory . But their expectations were so contrary to the humble appearance of our ...
... Messiah as a temporal deliverer , and impatiently waited for the commencement of his splendid reign , with the hope of partici- pating in his conquests and glory . But their expectations were so contrary to the humble appearance of our ...
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... Messiah . After the destruction of the devoted city , multitudes of the Hebrew nation were dis- persed over the earth , suffering severe perse- cution , 4 37 LETTER VI Sketch of the history of Jerusalem since the time Christ.
... Messiah . After the destruction of the devoted city , multitudes of the Hebrew nation were dis- persed over the earth , suffering severe perse- cution , 4 37 LETTER VI Sketch of the history of Jerusalem since the time Christ.
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... Messiah , stimulated his countrymen to revolt against the Romans , and engaged to restore them to their former liberty and glory . The emperor Adrian had sent a colony of heathens to Jeru- salem , and proposed to build there a temple to ...
... Messiah , stimulated his countrymen to revolt against the Romans , and engaged to restore them to their former liberty and glory . The emperor Adrian had sent a colony of heathens to Jeru- salem , and proposed to build there a temple to ...
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Page 142 - So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Page 141 - Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready : come unto the marriage.
Page 64 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Page 141 - But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise.
Page 150 - Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Page 77 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 141 - But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth : and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Page 27 - Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet, and thou Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, art not the least among the Princes of Judah: for out of thee shall come a governor that shall rule my people Israel.
Page 134 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day : and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table : moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Page 89 - And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.