A history of the holy Bible, with an intr., additional notes and dissertations, and a complete index by D. Dewar, Volume 137 |
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... Egyptians , out of veneration , call Trismegistus ) in the land of Seriad , which land no one knows any thing of , and which pillars being engraven before the flood , can hardly be supposed to escape undefaced . The plain truth is , the ...
... Egyptians , out of veneration , call Trismegistus ) in the land of Seriad , which land no one knows any thing of , and which pillars being engraven before the flood , can hardly be supposed to escape undefaced . The plain truth is , the ...
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... Egyptians , the Jewish interpreters at Alexandria might falsify their chronology ; since , in this very point , there are so many different readings in the Septuagint , and so many errors and mistranslations in it , that the learned Dr ...
... Egyptians , the Jewish interpreters at Alexandria might falsify their chronology ; since , in this very point , there are so many different readings in the Septuagint , and so many errors and mistranslations in it , that the learned Dr ...
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... Egyptians ; Berosus , who wrote the Chaldean history ; those authors , who give us an account of the Phoenician antiquities ; and among the Greeks , Hesiodus , Hecateus , Hellanicus , Ephorus , & c . , do unanimously agree , that in the ...
... Egyptians ; Berosus , who wrote the Chaldean history ; those authors , who give us an account of the Phoenician antiquities ; and among the Greeks , Hesiodus , Hecateus , Hellanicus , Ephorus , & c . , do unanimously agree , that in the ...
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... Egyptians had a sacred ship , called Baris , which represented the ark ; and the story of the Argos is sup- posed , somewhat fancifully , by Bryant , to have been derived from Egypt , and to have a relation to the ark , represented by ...
... Egyptians had a sacred ship , called Baris , which represented the ark ; and the story of the Argos is sup- posed , somewhat fancifully , by Bryant , to have been derived from Egypt , and to have a relation to the ark , represented by ...
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... Egyptians to the Jewish faith , tells us , that in that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language ( or lip , as it is in the margin ) of Canaan , and swear to the Lord of Hosts . ' Speaking the language of Canaan ...
... Egyptians to the Jewish faith , tells us , that in that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language ( or lip , as it is in the margin ) of Canaan , and swear to the Lord of Hosts . ' Speaking the language of Canaan ...
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Page 88 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 88 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 190 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands.
Page 264 - And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them ; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them : And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel : and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these ; so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 102 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Page 154 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations : that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ...
Page 398 - Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him ; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him : But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Page 39 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Page 189 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 275 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.