Horæ Biblicæ: Connected series of notes on the original text, early versions, and printed editions of the Old and New Testament

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J. White, 1807 - 313 pages

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Page 245 - And account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 14 - So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over national manners, that it was their most serious care to extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue.
Page 37 - God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have be,en esteemed useful engines of government.
Page xii - Subsecivae; being a connected series of notes respecting the Geography, Chronology, and Literary History of the principal codes »and original documents of the Grecian, Roman, Feudal, and Canon Laws.
Page 275 - Saints, vo1. iii. p. 145; a work of merit; the sense and learning belong to the author — his prejudices are those of his profession.
Page 95 - I will wait for him till he come. " 13. I believe, with a perfect faith, that the dead shall be restored to life, when it shall seem fit unto God the Creator, whose name be blessed, and memory celebrated, world without end. AMEN.
Page 252 - Coventry, was president: on him the burthen of the trust almost wholly fell ; and his humanity, judgment, and perseverance in the discharge of it, did honour to himself and his country. It should be observed, that the contributions we have mentioned are exclusive of those which were granted for the relief of the Lay Emigrants. So suddenly had the unhappy sufferers been driven from their country, that few...
Page 93 - Creator (whose name be blessed) is not corporeal, not to be comprehended with any bodily properties ; and that there is no bodily essence that can be likened unto him. 4. I believe, with a perfect faith, the Creator (whose name be blessed) to be the first and the last, that nothing was before him, and that he shall abide the last for ever,.
Page 135 - Hebre \v-Chaldaic lexicon is wanting. A small number, (it is thought not more than four), were printed on vellum. One of these, at the sale of the Pinelli library, was sold to Mr. Macartney, for four hundred and eighty-three pounds. For a typographical description of the work, see De Bure's Bibliographic Instructive, Theologie, Art. I. The Complutensian Polyglott was followed and excelled by the Polyglott of Antwerp, printed in that city in 1569 — 15?2, in eight volumes folio, including lexicons,...
Page 183 - It cannot be proved that at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century...

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