The Antiquity, Literal Meaning, and Authenticity of the Mosaic Narrative, Examined and EstablishedLongman and Company, Routledge and Company, 1854 - 16 pages |
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... primitive times , by some ancient historians , with those furnished in the old Testament , have drawn , from these questionable premises , some plausible arguments against the truth of Divine Revelation ; and as those arguments are ...
... primitive times , by some ancient historians , with those furnished in the old Testament , have drawn , from these questionable premises , some plausible arguments against the truth of Divine Revelation ; and as those arguments are ...
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... primitive tradition concerning the original state of human nature ; but this tradition appears there quite disfigured as to the most important truths , and visibly changed even in the most material circumstances , of the historical ...
... primitive tradition concerning the original state of human nature ; but this tradition appears there quite disfigured as to the most important truths , and visibly changed even in the most material circumstances , of the historical ...
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... primitive fathers used the testimony of Euphem- erus - who published the birth and death of all the Gods , taken from authentic inscriptions found in their temples - to prove that , " the Gods they worshipped were no more than dead men ...
... primitive fathers used the testimony of Euphem- erus - who published the birth and death of all the Gods , taken from authentic inscriptions found in their temples - to prove that , " the Gods they worshipped were no more than dead men ...
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... primitive rise , but its accession and improvement from the scriptures wherein it is still contained in its native lustre and beauty , without those paintings and impure mixtures , with which the most important truths are corrupted in ...
... primitive rise , but its accession and improvement from the scriptures wherein it is still contained in its native lustre and beauty , without those paintings and impure mixtures , with which the most important truths are corrupted in ...
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... primitive tongue , they retained the true knowledge of God , and of the remarkable events which occurred during the first ages of the world . Fourth . The Jews were made the trustees of the Mosaic narrative , when it was written , and ...
... primitive tongue , they retained the true knowledge of God , and of the remarkable events which occurred during the first ages of the world . Fourth . The Jews were made the trustees of the Mosaic narrative , when it was written , and ...
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Page 96 - 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. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Page 86 - 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 91 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Page 75 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 75 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 26 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; Thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 96 - These are the generations of Noah : Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Page 29 - The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones.
Page 29 - Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones ; and caused me to pass by them round about ; and, behold, there were very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live ? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
Page 103 - And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice : for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.