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... manners and customs of the times , be involved in obscurity . The classical literature of Greece and Rome assists the ... manner the religious and moral instructions of such men as Plato and Xenophon , Plutarch and Epictetus , Cicero ...
... manners and customs of the times , be involved in obscurity . The classical literature of Greece and Rome assists the ... manner the religious and moral instructions of such men as Plato and Xenophon , Plutarch and Epictetus , Cicero ...
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... manner to the same great object It consists almost entirely of extracts from authors of the classical ages of Greece and Rome , and forms what may be termed a Commentary e profanis on the Holy Scriptures . If the work had been intended ...
... manner to the same great object It consists almost entirely of extracts from authors of the classical ages of Greece and Rome , and forms what may be termed a Commentary e profanis on the Holy Scriptures . If the work had been intended ...
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... manner superior to the vulgar notions of his time , and which seems to raise the great object of adoration with distinction above the deities of the heathen . There are some modes of expression and sentiment in Sophocles which harmonise ...
... manner superior to the vulgar notions of his time , and which seems to raise the great object of adoration with distinction above the deities of the heathen . There are some modes of expression and sentiment in Sophocles which harmonise ...
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... manner to succeeding times . Xenophon accompanied the younger Cyrus in his march against his brother Ar- taxerxes , and after the failure and death of Cyrus , being compelled either to surrender or retreat , he conducted the division of ...
... manner to succeeding times . Xenophon accompanied the younger Cyrus in his march against his brother Ar- taxerxes , and after the failure and death of Cyrus , being compelled either to surrender or retreat , he conducted the division of ...
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... manner . There are many passages in Horace which indicate an acquaintance with traditions founded on truth . He alludes also to several points of Christian doctrine , as future rewards and punishments , the unity and supremacy of the ...
... manner . There are many passages in Horace which indicate an acquaintance with traditions founded on truth . He alludes also to several points of Christian doctrine , as future rewards and punishments , the unity and supremacy of the ...
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The Testimony of the Heathen to the Truths of Holy Writ Thomas Street Millington Limited preview - 1863 |
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Page 113 - ... and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 169 - This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand, and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee ; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth : that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear : for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
Page 46 - And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 50 - 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 569 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Page 32 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 45 - And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said. My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said. Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 23 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 603 - And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Page 505 - They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?