Quæstiones Mosaicæ: Or the Book of Genesis Compared with the Remains of Ancient ReligionsJohn Bohn, 1842 - 497 pages |
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... merely on God's power , thus exercised the most human of his attributes , they will comprehend , and perhaps eagerly receive , your words . But from your words , can we conclude , that either you , or they whom you address , have any ...
... merely on God's power , thus exercised the most human of his attributes , they will comprehend , and perhaps eagerly receive , your words . But from your words , can we conclude , that either you , or they whom you address , have any ...
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... merely gave form to chaos , or another order to old materials , but bid chaos itself exist . So we understand the ... mere arrangement or com- position of existent materials , - " God formed man of the dust of the ground , and breathed ...
... merely gave form to chaos , or another order to old materials , but bid chaos itself exist . So we understand the ... mere arrangement or com- position of existent materials , - " God formed man of the dust of the ground , and breathed ...
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... merely parentheti- cal observation , that I cannot help regarding it as the addendum of some later transcriber . 5 See Fourmont , Anciens Peuples , vol . i . See Pallas , ut supra , and com- pare with this Lamaic cosmogony the episodes ...
... merely parentheti- cal observation , that I cannot help regarding it as the addendum of some later transcriber . 5 See Fourmont , Anciens Peuples , vol . i . See Pallas , ut supra , and com- pare with this Lamaic cosmogony the episodes ...
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... notion : avта xonμara ην ὁμοῦ , ειτα νους ελθων αυτα διε- коoμηoε . 2 In Hebrew " Samaim , " which Bochart ( Canaan lib . ii , c . ii . ) trans- lates " heights . " Moses himself . For the expanse not merely divides , CHAPTER I. 15.
... notion : avта xonμara ην ὁμοῦ , ειτα νους ελθων αυτα διε- коoμηoε . 2 In Hebrew " Samaim , " which Bochart ( Canaan lib . ii , c . ii . ) trans- lates " heights . " Moses himself . For the expanse not merely divides , CHAPTER I. 15.
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... merely divides , but sustains the waters , and when rain is about to be poured down upon the earth , the windows , or floodgates of heaven , are said to be opened . This day God does not ratify his work with the usual formula , " God ...
... merely divides , but sustains the waters , and when rain is about to be poured down upon the earth , the windows , or floodgates of heaven , are said to be opened . This day God does not ratify his work with the usual formula , " God ...
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Page 220 - And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female.
Page 220 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Page 220 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Page 221 - And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him : and the LORD shut him in.
Page 222 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 222 - 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 221 - And Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons
Page 200 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 222 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Page 201 - Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...