Horæ Mosaicæ: Or, A Dissertation on the Credibility and Theology of the Pentateuch. Comprehending the Substance of Eight Lectures Read Before the University of Oxford, in the Year 1801; Pursuant to the Will of the Late Rev. John Bampton, A.M.F.C. and J. Rivington, 1818 - Bible |
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... father , begot our race out of dark Chaos in the midst of wide - spreading Tartarus , and called us forth into light . " X. Even in America we shall meet with some obscure traces of primitive tradition . 1. According to Gomara , the ...
... father , begot our race out of dark Chaos in the midst of wide - spreading Tartarus , and called us forth into light . " X. Even in America we shall meet with some obscure traces of primitive tradition . 1. According to Gomara , the ...
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... father affirm it to have been handed down to them by the Druids . For this reason , they measure time not by the number of days , but of nights . Accord- ingly , they observe their birth - days and the begin- nings of months and years ...
... father affirm it to have been handed down to them by the Druids . For this reason , they measure time not by the number of days , but of nights . Accord- ingly , they observe their birth - days and the begin- nings of months and years ...
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... fathers , that we are compounded of such warring and opposite principles , that we are unable to preserve the divine spark within us altogether unmixed and untainted . * Similar language is held likewise by Hierocles . Most men , he ...
... fathers , that we are compounded of such warring and opposite principles , that we are unable to preserve the divine spark within us altogether unmixed and untainted . * Similar language is held likewise by Hierocles . Most men , he ...
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... Father dispatched certain of the gods to bring those children to him . When they were come , he threw the serpent down to the bottom of the ocean . But there the monster waxed so large , that he wound himself around the whole globe of ...
... Father dispatched certain of the gods to bring those children to him . When they were come , he threw the serpent down to the bottom of the ocean . But there the monster waxed so large , that he wound himself around the whole globe of ...
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... an empire over the whole world . He was to govern with all 1 Edda . Fab . xxxii . 2 Maurice's Hist . of Hind . vol . ii . p . 290 . the virtues of his father , to annihilate violence and 78 [ SECT . I. HORA MOSAICE .
... an empire over the whole world . He was to govern with all 1 Edda . Fab . xxxii . 2 Maurice's Hist . of Hind . vol . ii . p . 290 . the virtues of his father , to annihilate violence and 78 [ SECT . I. HORA MOSAICE .
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Page 7 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 346 - Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes...
Page 345 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it...
Page 345 - Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life : but teach them thy sons, and thy sons...
Page 389 - For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Page 232 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter ; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of GOD, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Page 347 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 340 - Israel : that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones ? then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off : and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
Page 400 - And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations whither the LORD thy GOD hath driven thee...
Page 316 - And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.