Questions and Notes Critical and Practical Upon the Book of Genesis: Designed as a General Help to Biblical InstructionJ.P. Haven, 1831 - 467 pages |
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... nature of the case demands , that the framing the names and titles of the Deity in the primitive language was a matter of too much im- portance to be left to men , but must have emanated from God himself ; for if so , why should he have ...
... nature of the case demands , that the framing the names and titles of the Deity in the primitive language was a matter of too much im- portance to be left to men , but must have emanated from God himself ; for if so , why should he have ...
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... nature of the subject . For ourselves , after all , we are too little satisfied as to the real grounds of the usus loquendi in the matter before us to pronounce in favor of the claims of the one hypothesis or the other ; and having ...
... nature of the subject . For ourselves , after all , we are too little satisfied as to the real grounds of the usus loquendi in the matter before us to pronounce in favor of the claims of the one hypothesis or the other ; and having ...
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... nature of the case it must here mean to create out of nothing , since oth- erwise we are driven to admit that the world has ex- isted from eternity , the rock upon which the old phi- losophers split . But this consequence is by no means ...
... nature of the case it must here mean to create out of nothing , since oth- erwise we are driven to admit that the world has ex- isted from eternity , the rock upon which the old phi- losophers split . But this consequence is by no means ...
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... natural science . What was the primitive condition and aspect of the earth ? v . 2 . That which is here affirmed we suppose , as before intimated , to be descriptive of the state and appear- ance of the globe antecedently to the ...
... natural science . What was the primitive condition and aspect of the earth ? v . 2 . That which is here affirmed we suppose , as before intimated , to be descriptive of the state and appear- ance of the globe antecedently to the ...
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... nature of Jesus , the head of the new creation , the first born of every creature . ' Striking allusions to the same sig- nificant emblem of a hovering bird are elsewhere found , pointing in all probability directly to this por- 6 ...
... nature of Jesus , the head of the new creation , the first born of every creature . ' Striking allusions to the same sig- nificant emblem of a hovering bird are elsewhere found , pointing in all probability directly to this por- 6 ...
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Abimelech Abraham Abram Adam afterward allusion angels Apostle appears Babylon Beer-sheba birthright blessing brethren called Canaan Canaanites Chal Christ Chron church circumstance command covenant death denote Deut Divine dream dwell earth Edom Egypt Elohim Esau evil expression Ezek faith father favor God's hath HEADS OF PRACTICAL heart heaven Hebron Holy honor implying import inheritance interpretation Isaac Ishmael Israel Jacob Japheth Jerus Joseph Josh Judah Judg king Laban land of Goshen Lord Luke Moses mountains nature Noah note on Gen occurs original word passage patriarch person Pharaoh phrase pious PRACTICAL REFLECTION probably promise prophet Prov rendered respect sacred Scriptures seed sense servants shalt Shechem shew signifies sometimes sons soul spirit supposed Syria Targ tents Terah term thee thine thing thou tion tree tribe tribe of Dan unto verse Whither wicked worship Zebulun
Popular passages
Page 430 - Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Page 443 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Page 88 - He that wandereth out of the way of understanding, shall remain in the congregation of the dead,
Page 424 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 231 - Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh : and I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth...
Page 51 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Page 445 - The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Page 417 - God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
Page 118 - Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them ; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Page 438 - And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them ; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.