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Page 46
But if Newton or La Place were to converse with any persons destitute of
astronomical knowledge , they would of course employ the word sun only in a
sense intelligible to them . On any other ground they could not expect to be
understood .
But if Newton or La Place were to converse with any persons destitute of
astronomical knowledge , they would of course employ the word sun only in a
sense intelligible to them . On any other ground they could not expect to be
understood .
Page 50
A prophecy which is unintelligible by the laws of language , can never be a
revelation ; nor can there ever be any certainty among uninspired men , that it is
truly and correctly understood . It would not be proper , however , to dismiss this
topic ...
A prophecy which is unintelligible by the laws of language , can never be a
revelation ; nor can there ever be any certainty among uninspired men , that it is
truly and correctly understood . It would not be proper , however , to dismiss this
topic ...
Page 64
Yet it is no prediction ; for it never is , or can be , understood , until that to which it
relates has already taken place . Then , if at last it be understood at all , it has
become history , and is not , and never has been , prediction . Heathen gods and
...
Yet it is no prediction ; for it never is , or can be , understood , until that to which it
relates has already taken place . Then , if at last it be understood at all , it has
become history , and is not , and never has been , prediction . Heathen gods and
...
Page 68
... or of any other book , is to be enterpreted as bearing its plain and primary and
literal sense , unless good reason can be given why it should be tropically
understood . A principle so plain and reasonable as this , scarcely needs any
defence .
... or of any other book , is to be enterpreted as bearing its plain and primary and
literal sense , unless good reason can be given why it should be tropically
understood . A principle so plain and reasonable as this , scarcely needs any
defence .
Page 75
Let us now make the supposition , that the times specified in the book of Daniel
and in the Apocalypse may all be understood according to their plain and
obvious import , and that when thus understood they not only accord with the
design of ...
Let us now make the supposition , that the times specified in the book of Daniel
and in the Apocalypse may all be understood according to their plain and
obvious import , and that when thus understood they not only accord with the
design of ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy ATLA monograph preservation program |
| Author | Moses Stuart |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, 1842 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0790503514, 9780790503516 |
| Length | 194 pages |
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