The Antediluvian History, and Narrative of the Flood: As Set Forth in the Early Portions of the Book of GenesisOtis Clapp, 1851 - 324 pages |
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... reason of this failure , it is believed , is traceable to a misunderstanding of the structure and purpose of those remarkable narratives ; i . e . , to the supposition that they treat of mundane things . The following work is ...
... reason of this failure , it is believed , is traceable to a misunderstanding of the structure and purpose of those remarkable narratives ; i . e . , to the supposition that they treat of mundane things . The following work is ...
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... reasonableness of any contrary conclusion . It is admitted , that the first eleven chapters were produced among a people , who flourished long anterior to the time of Abram ; and - PREFACE . 11 there is much reason to believe 10 PREFACE .
... reasonableness of any contrary conclusion . It is admitted , that the first eleven chapters were produced among a people , who flourished long anterior to the time of Abram ; and - PREFACE . 11 there is much reason to believe 10 PREFACE .
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... reason to believe , that they originated in those pe- riods , which poets and philosophers have spoken of as the silver age , an age in which an Asiatic people were spiritually intelli- gent , because they studied interior truths , and ...
... reason to believe , that they originated in those pe- riods , which poets and philosophers have spoken of as the silver age , an age in which an Asiatic people were spiritually intelli- gent , because they studied interior truths , and ...
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... reason , they have insisted on the necessity of faith , and pleaded the inexplicability of omnipotence . A becom ing piety is always proper in such investigations , but it was never intended to direct us from the path of enlightened ...
... reason , they have insisted on the necessity of faith , and pleaded the inexplicability of omnipotence . A becom ing piety is always proper in such investigations , but it was never intended to direct us from the path of enlightened ...
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... only that it did not exist of itself or by chance , but was the production of an all - wise and all - powerful creator . " Oracles of Reason , 1. 4 , p . 186. Euseb . Præp . Ev . 2 , 7 . tion does not properly belong to a system of ...
... only that it did not exist of itself or by chance , but was the production of an all - wise and all - powerful creator . " Oracles of Reason , 1. 4 , p . 186. Euseb . Præp . Ev . 2 , 7 . tion does not properly belong to a system of ...
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Page 77 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 236 - The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Page 306 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Page 221 - And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Page 116 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Page 40 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Page 69 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid: and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 141 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, "Because thou hast done this, Thou art cursed above all cattle, And above every beast of the field; Upon thy belly shalt thou go, And dust shalt thou eat All the days of thy life...
Page 170 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 268 - But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. * For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away ; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.