The Testimony of the Heathen to the Truths of Holy Writ: A Commentary on the Old and New TestamentsSeeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1863 - 648 pages |
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... wicked train ; Which every god , who marks their passions vile , Regards with laughter , though he loathes the while . " — Juv . Sat. xv . v.69 . 6. It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth , and it grieved him at his ...
... wicked train ; Which every god , who marks their passions vile , Regards with laughter , though he loathes the while . " — Juv . Sat. xv . v.69 . 6. It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth , and it grieved him at his ...
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... wicked and inhuman . Every man receives every comer and treats him with re- pasts as long as his ability can possibly furnish them . -TAC . Germ . c . 21 . 6. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah , and said , Make ready quickly ...
... wicked and inhuman . Every man receives every comer and treats him with re- pasts as long as his ability can possibly furnish them . -TAC . Germ . c . 21 . 6. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah , and said , Make ready quickly ...
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... wicked : and that the righteous should be as the wicked , that be far from thee : shall not the Judge of all the earth do right ? Contrast the following : - " The deity , deeming fortune common , is wont , in the ruin of him that is ...
... wicked : and that the righteous should be as the wicked , that be far from thee : shall not the Judge of all the earth do right ? Contrast the following : - " The deity , deeming fortune common , is wont , in the ruin of him that is ...
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... wicked persons as executioners to punish others ; and thus he generally deals , as I think , with most tyrants . " PLUT . de sera num . vind . c . 7 . 23. And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven : and the Lord sent thunder and ...
... wicked persons as executioners to punish others ; and thus he generally deals , as I think , with most tyrants . " PLUT . de sera num . vind . c . 7 . 23. And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven : and the Lord sent thunder and ...
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... wicked man dies without suffering for his crimes , the gods inflict a punishment on his children , his children's children , and all his posterity . O wonderful equity of the gods ! What city would endure the making of a law which ...
... wicked man dies without suffering for his crimes , the gods inflict a punishment on his children , his children's children , and all his posterity . O wonderful equity of the gods ! What city would endure the making of a law which ...
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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?