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... understood as meaning , that each day is the repre- sentative of a year . For a long time these principles have been so current among the expositors of the English and American world , that scarcely a serious attempt to vindicate them ...
... understood as meaning , that each day is the repre- sentative of a year . For a long time these principles have been so current among the expositors of the English and American world , that scarcely a serious attempt to vindicate them ...
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... understood . If we ascribe to any passage of Scripture a literal , ob- vious , historical sense , and interpret it as conveying the meaning which its words naturally and obviously seem to convey , and yet at the same time ascribe to ...
... understood . If we ascribe to any passage of Scripture a literal , ob- vious , historical sense , and interpret it as conveying the meaning which its words naturally and obviously seem to convey , and yet at the same time ascribe to ...
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... understood . Did ever a considerate father undertake to teach his children , and yet employ language the words and exegetical principles of which were entirely beyond their cognizance ? And when God speaks to his erring children , with ...
... understood . Did ever a considerate father undertake to teach his children , and yet employ language the words and exegetical principles of which were entirely beyond their cognizance ? And when God speaks to his erring children , with ...
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... understood . But if the common laws of interpretation were not applicable to what was said , then of course it could not be understood . But inasmuch as the whole tenor of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures shows that the usual laws of ...
... understood . But if the common laws of interpretation were not applicable to what was said , then of course it could not be understood . But inasmuch as the whole tenor of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures shows that the usual laws of ...
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... understood . Like to this , now , must be the case in regard to pro- phetic revelation . If God reveals the future to men , then he must speak so as to be understood . The things sug- gested by the words employed , are , beyond all ...
... understood . Like to this , now , must be the case in regard to pro- phetic revelation . If God reveals the future to men , then he must speak so as to be understood . The things sug- gested by the words employed , are , beyond all ...
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