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Page 44
... followed in their train . As the same animal could not prefigure both the death and resurrection of the Redeemer , two were select- ed on this occasion ; of which the one was by lot offered in sacrifice , as a type of the death of 44 ...
... followed in their train . As the same animal could not prefigure both the death and resurrection of the Redeemer , two were select- ed on this occasion ; of which the one was by lot offered in sacrifice , as a type of the death of 44 ...
Page 57
... followed their ex- ample . The Boeotians ratified their covenants by cutting a dog in two , and passing between the pieces ; the Mace- donians , as we learn from the authentic page of Livy , ob- served the same custom ; and the ...
... followed their ex- ample . The Boeotians ratified their covenants by cutting a dog in two , and passing between the pieces ; the Mace- donians , as we learn from the authentic page of Livy , ob- served the same custom ; and the ...
Page 59
... followed by the most pointed reproofs , and the severest threatenings . The prophet Isaiah charges his degenerate people with eating swine's flesh , and having the broth of abominable things in their vessels . They had not yet neglected ...
... followed by the most pointed reproofs , and the severest threatenings . The prophet Isaiah charges his degenerate people with eating swine's flesh , and having the broth of abominable things in their vessels . They had not yet neglected ...
Page 82
... followed by the classical writers of antiquity , ) because it is the instrument with which the savage beast knocks down and tears his prey . He is a solitary animal , and fixes his abode in the woods and mountains , far removed from the ...
... followed by the classical writers of antiquity , ) because it is the instrument with which the savage beast knocks down and tears his prey . He is a solitary animal , and fixes his abode in the woods and mountains , far removed from the ...
Page 144
... followed . Suidas also takes notice of this custom , when he speaks of a kind of beetle , which the Boeotians named tipha . They imagined , that , if to this they were to fasten some inflammable matter , it would be easy to set any ...
... followed . Suidas also takes notice of this custom , when he speaks of a kind of beetle , which the Boeotians named tipha . They imagined , that , if to this they were to fasten some inflammable matter , it would be easy to set any ...
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Page 167 - AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, •** so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ' My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God?
Page 32 - As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered ; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Page 271 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways : then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Page 547 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 272 - And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 17 - Therefore they shall come and • sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd : and their soul shall be as a watered garden ; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Page 59 - He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; He that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; He that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; He that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol.
Page 434 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Page 150 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 504 - And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire ; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.