Horæ Mosaicæ: Or, A Dissertation on the Credibility and Theology of the Pentateuch. Comprehending the Substance of Eight Lectures Read Before the University of Oxford, in the Year 1801; Pursuant to the Will of the Late Rev. John Bampton, A.M.F.C. and J. Rivington, 1818 - Bible |
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... Patriarchs , p . 91 I 1. Attestations of ancient authors preserved by Jo- sephus , p . 9110 2. Classical tradition , p . 92 3. Burman tradition , p . 92 4. Chinese tradition , p . 93 years of the early patriarchs cannot 5. The Mosaical ...
... Patriarchs , p . 91 I 1. Attestations of ancient authors preserved by Jo- sephus , p . 9110 2. Classical tradition , p . 92 3. Burman tradition , p . 92 4. Chinese tradition , p . 93 years of the early patriarchs cannot 5. The Mosaical ...
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... Patriarch . Hence , although the Mosaical documents are the grand and genuine repository of all those ancient facts ; yet , profane traditions must , for the most part , have been derived , not from the records of the Jews , but from ...
... Patriarch . Hence , although the Mosaical documents are the grand and genuine repository of all those ancient facts ; yet , profane traditions must , for the most part , have been derived , not from the records of the Jews , but from ...
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... patriarch reached the age of a millenary : so that , through sin , he lite- rally became an ephemeral being . We may observe some traces of such a mode of reckoning among the Hindoos ; which I suppose them to have received , though with ...
... patriarch reached the age of a millenary : so that , through sin , he lite- rally became an ephemeral being . We may observe some traces of such a mode of reckoning among the Hindoos ; which I suppose them to have received , though with ...
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... Patriarch . Inclosed within a capacious ark , this favoured family remained secure amidst the wreck of universal nature ; perfectly free from the least danger , because under the im- mediate protection of Omnipotence . 4. The waters at ...
... Patriarch . Inclosed within a capacious ark , this favoured family remained secure amidst the wreck of universal nature ; perfectly free from the least danger , because under the im- mediate protection of Omnipotence . 4. The waters at ...
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... patriarch Joseph . A number of provi- dential events conspired together to throw him into the high situation of prime minister to the king of Egypt , and a dreadful famine of seven years pro- duced the migration of his whole family into ...
... patriarch Joseph . A number of provi- dential events conspired together to throw him into the high situation of prime minister to the king of Egypt , and a dreadful famine of seven years pro- duced the migration of his whole family into ...
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