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... succession of numbered sentences , with divisions into longer or shorter chapters , under which all trace of dramatic , lyric , story , essay , is hopelessly lost . Nor is it difficult to understand how this has come about . The Old ...
... succession of numbered sentences , with divisions into longer or shorter chapters , under which all trace of dramatic , lyric , story , essay , is hopelessly lost . Nor is it difficult to understand how this has come about . The Old ...
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... simple literary fact , that our Deuteronomy stands as a succession of orations and songs , presenting the Fare- well of Moses to the People of Israel ? Yet , in practice , perplexing details in the Book of the Covenant - an INTRODUCTION 11.
... simple literary fact , that our Deuteronomy stands as a succession of orations and songs , presenting the Fare- well of Moses to the People of Israel ? Yet , in practice , perplexing details in the Book of the Covenant - an INTRODUCTION 11.
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... succession of families , living under simple patriarchal rule ; until at last they have grown into the twelve tribes which never ceased to be the basis of the future nation's organisation . The main note in the history is the gradual ...
... succession of families , living under simple patriarchal rule ; until at last they have grown into the twelve tribes which never ceased to be the basis of the future nation's organisation . The main note in the history is the gradual ...
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... succession even among the descendants of Abraham . The long childlessness of Sarah brings into prominence the children of the bond- woman . There is a glimpse of household strife , persecut- ing mistress and mocking maid ; we have the ...
... succession even among the descendants of Abraham . The long childlessness of Sarah brings into prominence the children of the bond- woman . There is a glimpse of household strife , persecut- ing mistress and mocking maid ; we have the ...
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... succession . Two children struggle in the womb of Rebekah : before they are born the oracular word declares that the elder shall serve the younger . The natural course of events is found to fulfil the prediction . From the first Esau is ...
... succession . Two children struggle in the womb of Rebekah : before they are born the oracular word declares that the elder shall serve the younger . The natural course of events is found to fulfil the prediction . From the first Esau is ...
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Page 306 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 138 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Page 126 - MAKE a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness : Come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God : It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves ; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Page 196 - Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness" sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Page 51 - Reign thou over us. But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees ? And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page 146 - Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul; all they that hate me love death.
Page 265 - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Page 205 - But what to those who find ? Ah ! this Nor tongue nor pen can show ; The love of Jesus, what it is None but His loved ones know.
Page 235 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Page 310 - A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour ? and if I be a master, where is my fear ? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name.