Christian Examiner and Theological ReviewO. Everett, 1852 |
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... interest or reverence . Its con- tents were therefore liable to vary with the convenience and taste of copyists and their employers . It was in this form chiefly that the Old Testament was known to 1852. ] 3 His View of the Canon .
... interest or reverence . Its con- tents were therefore liable to vary with the convenience and taste of copyists and their employers . It was in this form chiefly that the Old Testament was known to 1852. ] 3 His View of the Canon .
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... interest and higher value than can be assigned to it on any other hypothesis . He regards it not as a de- signed compend of the ante - Mosaic history of the world , ( in which aspect it is disproportioned and fragmentary , ) but rather ...
... interest and higher value than can be assigned to it on any other hypothesis . He regards it not as a de- signed compend of the ante - Mosaic history of the world , ( in which aspect it is disproportioned and fragmentary , ) but rather ...
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... interest or subject , should have been adopted with such a welcome , preserved with such care , and regarded with such veneration , by that people . A work attributed to the great founder and lawgiver would have peculiar claims to ...
... interest or subject , should have been adopted with such a welcome , preserved with such care , and regarded with such veneration , by that people . A work attributed to the great founder and lawgiver would have peculiar claims to ...
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... interest in rejecting , or no motive aside from their credibility in accepting them . We are not surprised , in such a state of mental confu- sion , to find whole histories constructed elaborately out of the fancy , and yet credited by ...
... interest in rejecting , or no motive aside from their credibility in accepting them . We are not surprised , in such a state of mental confu- sion , to find whole histories constructed elaborately out of the fancy , and yet credited by ...
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... interests us . All this was published and received as history . Its object was to accumulate evidence upon an historical point , to satisfy people by every possible argu- 1852. ] History constructed to fulfil Prophecy . 43 The 42 [ July ...
... interests us . All this was published and received as history . Its object was to accumulate evidence upon an historical point , to satisfy people by every possible argu- 1852. ] History constructed to fulfil Prophecy . 43 The 42 [ July ...
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Page 55 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
Page 109 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing : for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 336 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the humane conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it.
Page 366 - Then wherefore, wherefore were they made, All dyed with rainbow light, All fashioned with supremest grace Upspringing day and night : — Springing in valleys green and low. And on the mountains high, And in the silent wilderness Where no man passes by...
Page 331 - And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Page 415 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy — scooped out By help of dreams, can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our minds, into the mind of man, My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Page 365 - GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. "We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers. The ore within the mountain mine Requireth none to grow ; Nor doth it need the lotus-flower To make the river flow.
Page 55 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire. Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Page 173 - For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Page 335 - The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principal source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those...