The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah: Including the Dissertation on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volume 2Baynes, 1808 - History, Ancient |
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... agreement and clear connection with the accounts of the profane historians , ex- cept in points wherein these have apparently exceeded or deviated from the truth . A romantic humour of magnifying ancient • facts , buildings , wars ...
... agreement and clear connection with the accounts of the profane historians , ex- cept in points wherein these have apparently exceeded or deviated from the truth . A romantic humour of magnifying ancient • facts , buildings , wars ...
Page xcii
... agrees in a remarkable manner the account which Callisthenes formed of the astronomical observations , which had been made at Babylon before Alexander took that city ; who supposed them to reach one thousand nine hundred and three years ...
... agrees in a remarkable manner the account which Callisthenes formed of the astronomical observations , which had been made at Babylon before Alexander took that city ; who supposed them to reach one thousand nine hundred and three years ...
Page xcv
... agree with the accounts which the heathen writers give of it ; but then it is remarkable , that these enlarged accounts come from hands comparatively modern . Diodorus informs us , that he took his from " Gen. xiv . Ctesias : Ctesias ...
... agree with the accounts which the heathen writers give of it ; but then it is remarkable , that these enlarged accounts come from hands comparatively modern . Diodorus informs us , that he took his from " Gen. xiv . Ctesias : Ctesias ...
Page 127
... agree in so many particulars , that there appears a far greater probability of their being one and the same person , than there does of the truth of any circumstance hinted by Sanchoniathon , which may seem to make them differ one from ...
... agree in so many particulars , that there appears a far greater probability of their being one and the same person , than there does of the truth of any circumstance hinted by Sanchoniathon , which may seem to make them differ one from ...
Page 128
... TIS 20 δίκαιος ανηρ και μεγας και τα ερανια εμπειροδο Josephus Antiquitat . lib . 1. c . 8. Euseb .. Præp . Evang . ut sup ; • Id . c . 17 . t agrees that Abraham born was at Uria ( or 128 BOOK VI . SACRED AND PROFANE.
... TIS 20 δίκαιος ανηρ και μεγας και τα ερανια εμπειροδο Josephus Antiquitat . lib . 1. c . 8. Euseb .. Præp . Evang . ut sup ; • Id . c . 17 . t agrees that Abraham born was at Uria ( or 128 BOOK VI . SACRED AND PROFANE.
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Page 264 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth): it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 117 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called : Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 446 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 503 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page 231 - And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Page 114 - But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Page 501 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 500 - Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Page 250 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Page 117 - And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham : and he said, Here am I.