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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... occurring in Italics in this translation ? Ans . They are inserted for the purpose of making out a complete sense in our language where the ex- pression in the original is elliptical , or where the idioms of the two languages are so ...
... occurring in Italics in this translation ? Ans . They are inserted for the purpose of making out a complete sense in our language where the ex- pression in the original is elliptical , or where the idioms of the two languages are so ...
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... occurring for the most part in the plural form , and yet usually connected , as here , with a verb singular . The true grounds of this grammatical ano- maly it is not easy to determine . The earlier Chris- tian commentators very ...
... occurring for the most part in the plural form , and yet usually connected , as here , with a verb singular . The true grounds of this grammatical ano- maly it is not easy to determine . The earlier Chris- tian commentators very ...
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... occurs in the Heb . Bible about two thousand five hundred times , the sin- gular is met with only fifty - seven times , and that for the most part in the poetical books or passages which have a style peculiar to themselves , and where ...
... occurs in the Heb . Bible about two thousand five hundred times , the sin- gular is met with only fifty - seven times , and that for the most part in the poetical books or passages which have a style peculiar to themselves , and where ...
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... occur , serving as an introduc- tion or preface to the more expanded details which immediately follow . Thus it is stated in general terms , v . 27 , that God created man in his own im- age ; male and female created he them , ' whereas ...
... occur , serving as an introduc- tion or preface to the more expanded details which immediately follow . Thus it is stated in general terms , v . 27 , that God created man in his own im- age ; male and female created he them , ' whereas ...
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... occur one or both of them seve- ral times in the O. T. , where the object of the wri- ter is to express in the most significant terms the idea of dreariness and desolation , particularly as the effect of Divine judgments in laying waste ...
... occur one or both of them seve- ral times in the O. T. , where the object of the wri- ter is to express in the most significant terms the idea of dreariness and desolation , particularly as the effect of Divine judgments in laying waste ...
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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.