Conversations on the Bible, by a ladyHenry Colburn, 1824 - 437 pages |
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... given to us , if we find , as we certainly shall , that they will bear the severest scrutiny , let us acquiesce in silence , while we humbly feel their superiority to our limit- ed reason . 25 and That faults may be discovered in this ...
... given to us , if we find , as we certainly shall , that they will bear the severest scrutiny , let us acquiesce in silence , while we humbly feel their superiority to our limit- ed reason . 25 and That faults may be discovered in this ...
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... given to Eve to console her for the loss of Abel , and whose family continued a long time in the practice of pure religion . This pious man , pious in the midst of universal corruption , was translated to heaven in the 365th year of his ...
... given to Eve to console her for the loss of Abel , and whose family continued a long time in the practice of pure religion . This pious man , pious in the midst of universal corruption , was translated to heaven in the 365th year of his ...
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... given , but only a few moral and ceremonial precepts . To transmit , therefore , to posterity the knowledge of one God and his essential at- tributes , and to preserve in symbols and prophecies , the promise of a Saviour , the ...
... given , but only a few moral and ceremonial precepts . To transmit , therefore , to posterity the knowledge of one God and his essential at- tributes , and to preserve in symbols and prophecies , the promise of a Saviour , the ...
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... given rise . It has been called the Dead sea , for example , be- cause its waters were supposed to have a fatal influence on animal and vegetable life . Modern travellers have de- tected the fallacy of this opinion . CATHERINE . How is ...
... given rise . It has been called the Dead sea , for example , be- cause its waters were supposed to have a fatal influence on animal and vegetable life . Modern travellers have de- tected the fallacy of this opinion . CATHERINE . How is ...
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... given this land , from the river of Egypt unto the great river Euphrates ; they shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs , and shall serve them , and they shall afflict them four hundred years . And also that nation whom they ...
... given this land , from the river of Egypt unto the great river Euphrates ; they shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs , and shall serve them , and they shall afflict them four hundred years . And also that nation whom they ...
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Aaron Abimelech Abraham afflicted altar amongst Amorites army Assyria Babylon Balaam became behold blessing brethren brother brought called Canaan captivity CATHERINE CHARLES chief commanded covenant daughter David death Deity delivered divine earth Egypt Elisha enemies Esau Ezra FANNY father favour glory hand hath heart heathens heaven Hebrew holy honour hundred inhabitants Isaac Israel Israelites Jabesh-gilead Jacob Jehovah Jephthah Jeroboam Jerusalem Jews Joab Joseph Joshua Judah king king's kingdom land Levites lived Lord Medes mercy messenger miracle Moab monarch Moses mother Mount Mount Seir nation Nebuchadnezzar Nineveh offered Pharaoh Philistines pious present priests prince promise prophecy prophet punishment received refused reign religion royal sacred sacrifice Samson Saul scripture sent servant Shechem Sisera Solomon sons strangers Syria Tabernacle temple thee thou shalt throne tion tribes unto whilst whole wife wilderness worship Zedekiah
Popular passages
Page 415 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 172 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Page 290 - What portion have we in David ? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse : to your tents, O Israel : now see to thine own house, David.
Page 417 - The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 333 - Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land ; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Page 297 - And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
Page 149 - The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall hearken...
Page 434 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 130 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his ! And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me?
Page 316 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day ; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee : Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.