Horę Biblicę: Connected series of notes on the Koran, Zend-Avesta, Vedas, Kings and Edda |
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Page 138 - 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 106 - ... will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds. The divine attributes exalt the fancy of the Arabian missionary; but his loftiest strains must yield to the sublime simplicity of the book of Job, composed in a remote age, in the same country, and in the same language...
Page 104 - Mohammed, as the prophet and ambassador of God, who after the repeated admonitions, promises and threats of former ages, was at last to establish and propagate God's religion on earth by force of arms, and to be acknowledged chief pontiff in spiritual matters, as well as supreme prince in temporal.
Page 173 - A Code of Gentoo Laws, or. Ordinations of the Pundits. From a Persian Translation...
Page 261 - The three witnesses have been established in our Greek Testaments by the prudence of Erasmus; the honest bigotry of the Complutensian editors; the typographical fraud, or error, of Robert Stephens in the placing a crotchet; and the deliberate falsehood, or strange misapprehension, of Theodore Beza.
Page 291 - For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
Page 41 - This is to acquaint you that I intend to send the true believers into Syria to take it out of the hands of the infidels. And I would have you know, that the fighting for religion is an act of obedience to God.
Page 265 - For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.
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| Title | Horę Biblicę: Connected series of notes on the Koran, Zend-Avesta, Vedas, Kings and Edda Volume 2 of Horę Biblicę: Being a Connnected Series of Notes on the Text and Literary History of the Bibles, Or Sacred Books of the Jews and Christians; and on the Bibles Or Books Accounted Sacred by the Mahometans, Hindus, Parsees, Chinese, and Scandinavians, Charles Butler |
| Author | Charles Butler |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. White, 1807 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 313 pages |
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