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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... sufficient to convince any sober enquirer after truth , that it is not possible , for a being circumstanced as man is , to ascertain , by the mere exercise of his natural powers , either the nature or measure of that duty which he owes ...
... sufficient to convince any sober enquirer after truth , that it is not possible , for a being circumstanced as man is , to ascertain , by the mere exercise of his natural powers , either the nature or measure of that duty which he owes ...
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Alexander Strachan. calculated to excite the admiration of the unbeliever . What sufficient motive could be drawn from such a source , to induce obedience to law - to promote social order in a state - or to impose salutary restraint upon ...
Alexander Strachan. calculated to excite the admiration of the unbeliever . What sufficient motive could be drawn from such a source , to induce obedience to law - to promote social order in a state - or to impose salutary restraint upon ...
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... Sufficient has been advanced , we presume , to justify the following conclusions , viz : — First . That , next to Moses , Herodotus , the Greek , was the first authentic historian . Moses was born in the year of the world 2433 , ( 1571 ...
... Sufficient has been advanced , we presume , to justify the following conclusions , viz : — First . That , next to Moses , Herodotus , the Greek , was the first authentic historian . Moses was born in the year of the world 2433 , ( 1571 ...
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... sufficient cause for the existence of any thing . On the contrary , Moses begins his account of the origin of time , by placing before you a being , the infinitude of whose wisdom and power , are demonstrated by his acts . Instead of ...
... sufficient cause for the existence of any thing . On the contrary , Moses begins his account of the origin of time , by placing before you a being , the infinitude of whose wisdom and power , are demonstrated by his acts . Instead of ...
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... not , God created heaven , nor merely the heavens , which would have been sufficiently denoted by the original word , but a particle is interposed which makes it peculiarly emphatical . In general it signifies the very MOSAIC NARRATIVE .
... not , God created heaven , nor merely the heavens , which would have been sufficiently denoted by the original word , but a particle is interposed which makes it peculiarly emphatical . In general it signifies the very MOSAIC NARRATIVE .
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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.