An Attempt Towards an Improved Version, a Metrical Arrangement, and an Explanation of the Twelve Minor ProphetsB. Boothroyd, 1809 - 362 pages |
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... observe what discordant opinions they contain on almost every point of theology and philosophy . But in the Hebrew prophets there is a wonderful harmony of doctrine for above a thousand years ; unparalleled in the writings of any ...
... observe what discordant opinions they contain on almost every point of theology and philosophy . But in the Hebrew prophets there is a wonderful harmony of doctrine for above a thousand years ; unparalleled in the writings of any ...
Page x
... observe how materially the Aldine edition and the || Pachomian MS . of the lxx differ from the Alexandrian and Vatican copies : and it will appear , by extracts from Sixtus Quintus's edition , that there are rich trea- sures in the ...
... observe how materially the Aldine edition and the || Pachomian MS . of the lxx differ from the Alexandrian and Vatican copies : and it will appear , by extracts from Sixtus Quintus's edition , that there are rich trea- sures in the ...
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... observe , had be- fore been lost from this faithful Syriac translation ; but it is fortunately preserved in the Bodleian library in an Arabic version of the same Syriac . Of this Arabic ver- sion a collation was indeed made for Dr ...
... observe , had be- fore been lost from this faithful Syriac translation ; but it is fortunately preserved in the Bodleian library in an Arabic version of the same Syriac . Of this Arabic ver- sion a collation was indeed made for Dr ...
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... observe that some learned men somewhere " have been as exact as they could that way . Truly , " that we might not vary from the sense of that which " we translated before , if the word signified the same " thing in both places , ( for ...
... observe that some learned men somewhere " have been as exact as they could that way . Truly , " that we might not vary from the sense of that which " we translated before , if the word signified the same " thing in both places , ( for ...
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... observes , from Jerom , that forty days is a solemn period of time in scripture : see Ex . xxiv . 18. 1 Kings xix . 8. and that Jonah's denunciation employed three days . Hieroz . p . ii . 746 . 5. --- believed ] Nineveh might have been ...
... observes , from Jerom , that forty days is a solemn period of time in scripture : see Ex . xxiv . 18. 1 Kings xix . 8. and that Jonah's denunciation employed three days . Hieroz . p . ii . 746 . 5. --- believed ] Nineveh might have been ...
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Amos Arab Assyrians Babylon Bahrdt behold Bishop Lowth Blaney Boch Bochart Capellus captivity cast Chald CHAP Chron Copt covenant destruction Deut devour earth editions read Edom Egypt enemies Ephraim Ezek Forsayeth Gilgal glory Haggai Hebr Hebrew Hieroz holy Horsley Horsley's hosts Houbigant Houbigant reads idolatry idols inhabitants iniquity Isai Jeroboam Jerusalem Jews Jonah Josh Judah kingdom of Israel Kings land locusts Lowth on Isai Matth Medes Moab mountains nations Nebuchadnezzar Nineveh Nold Numb observes omitted original word Pachom passage Pocock Præl priests prophecy prophet punishment quæ render sacrifice saith Jehovah Samaria Secker sense shew signifies Sion suppose Syriac temple thereof thine things thou hast thou shalt translation true reading unto Jehovah unto thee verb verse versions and Chald viii Vulg Wheeler wine Woide word of Jehovah xxiii Zerubbabel
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Page 257 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts, yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts, the silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 357 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 51 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord...
Page 161 - With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 10 - And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Page 62 - But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
Page 174 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 115 - The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Page 210 - I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem ; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests...
Page 239 - God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; He had horns coming out of his hand : And there was the hiding of his power.