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... worship of the true God , was almost universally practised . One of the funda- mental doctrines of this system was the unity of God ; still it permitted divine adoration to be paid to the stars , or to devils , and to intelligences re ...
... worship of the true God , was almost universally practised . One of the funda- mental doctrines of this system was the unity of God ; still it permitted divine adoration to be paid to the stars , or to devils , and to intelligences re ...
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... worship , and for food . The images which crowded the Arabian pantheon , were innumerable . Every head of a family , every householder , had his tutelar deity , which received when he went abroad his last adieus , and when he returned ...
... worship , and for food . The images which crowded the Arabian pantheon , were innumerable . Every head of a family , every householder , had his tutelar deity , which received when he went abroad his last adieus , and when he returned ...
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... worship , remained to the time of Ma- homet , and were there found by the Mussulmans after the capture of Mecca . Mahomet , Abulfeda tells us , when he took Mecca in the eighth year of the Hejira , found and destroyed in the Kaaba , on ...
... worship , remained to the time of Ma- homet , and were there found by the Mussulmans after the capture of Mecca . Mahomet , Abulfeda tells us , when he took Mecca in the eighth year of the Hejira , found and destroyed in the Kaaba , on ...
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... worship , they were at length assailed by the scimi- tars of the legitimate successors of Ishmael , and by the judgments of heaven , so as to have been finally destroyed ; but not before they had com- mitted great indignities against ...
... worship , they were at length assailed by the scimi- tars of the legitimate successors of Ishmael , and by the judgments of heaven , so as to have been finally destroyed ; but not before they had com- mitted great indignities against ...
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... worship remained , and hence the epithet Koreish came to distinguish a tribe especially zealous for the purity of the Arab faith , and the honour of the sacred edifice . It was used as a proud distinction of all who thenceforward ...
... worship remained , and hence the epithet Koreish came to distinguish a tribe especially zealous for the purity of the Arab faith , and the honour of the sacred edifice . It was used as a proud distinction of all who thenceforward ...
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Page 359 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Page 350 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Page 350 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Page 350 - And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Page 125 - When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads, until ye have made a great slaughter among them; and bind them in bonds: and either give them a free dismission afterward, or exact a ransom; until the war shall have laid down its arms.
Page 152 - God. Say, God is one God ; the eternal God; he begetteth not, neither is he begotten : and there is not any one like unto him.
Page 351 - By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke,- and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
Page 351 - And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
Page 334 - And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand ; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Page 334 - Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, "How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?" And he said unto me, "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.