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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... supposed that this inspiration ex- tended to the very words of the writers ? Ans . We may confidently say that the sacred writers were so far under Divine guidance in this particular that they were always led to express themselves with ...
... supposed that this inspiration ex- tended to the very words of the writers ? Ans . We may confidently say that the sacred writers were so far under Divine guidance in this particular that they were always led to express themselves with ...
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... supposed it to be founded on the doctrine of the Trinity , and that it afforded a convincing argument in proof of a plurality of persons possessing a unity of essence in the God- head . This view of the subject they considered as ...
... supposed it to be founded on the doctrine of the Trinity , and that it afforded a convincing argument in proof of a plurality of persons possessing a unity of essence in the God- head . This view of the subject they considered as ...
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... supposed to be a contraction of good ; God and good being justly considered as correlative terms . Our own language therefore and the German are peculiarly fortunate in affording , as the common title of the Most High , a name of which ...
... supposed to be a contraction of good ; God and good being justly considered as correlative terms . Our own language therefore and the German are peculiarly fortunate in affording , as the common title of the Most High , a name of which ...
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... supposed that v . 2 describes the state into which the unorganized matter of the earth passed immediately upon its first creation , as related , v . 1. But this opinion is contradicted , we think , by the express words of Jehovah ...
... supposed that v . 2 describes the state into which the unorganized matter of the earth passed immediately upon its first creation , as related , v . 1. But this opinion is contradicted , we think , by the express words of Jehovah ...
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... supposed difficulty in the historian's statement that light was created on the first day , and yet the sun not till the fourth . This difficulty we trust will appear on a subsequent page to be altogether imaginary , and consequently the ...
... supposed difficulty in the historian's statement that light was created on the first day , and yet the sun not till the fourth . This difficulty we trust will appear on a subsequent page to be altogether imaginary , and consequently the ...
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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.