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... prophecies . These have been compared to the ambiguous vaticinations of the heathen oracles , and pronounced to be deserving of merely the same credit which is given to them by enlightened minds . One might reply to all this by saying ...
... prophecies . These have been compared to the ambiguous vaticinations of the heathen oracles , and pronounced to be deserving of merely the same credit which is given to them by enlightened minds . One might reply to all this by saying ...
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... prophetic passages , which have of late years been the subject of frequent and animated discussion , is made in the following pages . To write a large volume on such topics would be comparatively easy ; to select , combine , and exhibit ...
... prophetic passages , which have of late years been the subject of frequent and animated discussion , is made in the following pages . To write a large volume on such topics would be comparatively easy ; to select , combine , and exhibit ...
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... prophecies have a meaning which is so concealed and obscure , that it can never be discovered until the events take place to which they refer . The third is , that the leading designations of time in the book of Daniel and the ...
... prophecies have a meaning which is so concealed and obscure , that it can never be discovered until the events take place to which they refer . The third is , that the leading designations of time in the book of Daniel and the ...
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... prophecy . The bearing of what has been said , the reader will speedily perceive . Our first question , as above proposed , is , whether we are to regard the position , that " there are many occult passages in the prophecies , which are ...
... prophecy . The bearing of what has been said , the reader will speedily perceive . Our first question , as above proposed , is , whether we are to regard the position , that " there are many occult passages in the prophecies , which are ...
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