The Study of Holy Scripture Recommended to the Young, EtcJ. W. Parker, 1841 - 44 pages |
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... thousand years younger than Moses . This will serve to give you an idea , how exceedingly ancient some of the books are which you possess in your Bible , and which , if they were interesting on no other ground , would , on account of ...
... thousand years younger than Moses . This will serve to give you an idea , how exceedingly ancient some of the books are which you possess in your Bible , and which , if they were interesting on no other ground , would , on account of ...
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... thousand one hundred years ago , they were translated from the original Hebrew into Greek , for the use of the same schools of learning at Alexandria , by whom the poems of Homer were reduced to that form in which we now possess them ...
... thousand one hundred years ago , they were translated from the original Hebrew into Greek , for the use of the same schools of learning at Alexandria , by whom the poems of Homer were reduced to that form in which we now possess them ...
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... thousands and ten thousands who are better acquainted with those books than with any other books in the world , making them their daily and diligent study . It would be vain to attempt any calculation of the number of new Bibles that ...
... thousands and ten thousands who are better acquainted with those books than with any other books in the world , making them their daily and diligent study . It would be vain to attempt any calculation of the number of new Bibles that ...
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... thousand three hundred years ago , they are " scattered among all the nations , from the one end of the earth , even unto the other , " and have " become an astonishment , a pro- verb , and a bye - word , among all the nations whither ...
... thousand three hundred years ago , they are " scattered among all the nations , from the one end of the earth , even unto the other , " and have " become an astonishment , a pro- verb , and a bye - word , among all the nations whither ...
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... thousands of years . Nor can it be for a moment supposed , that if God has been pleased so to communicate his own mind and future purposes to his chosen messengers , He would suffer them to mix up with predictions , which the event ...
... thousands of years . Nor can it be for a moment supposed , that if God has been pleased so to communicate his own mind and future purposes to his chosen messengers , He would suffer them to mix up with predictions , which the event ...
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The Study of Holy Scripture Recommended to the Young: In A Letter Addressed ... George Edward Biber No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 34 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 35 - And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken ? when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Page 43 - And this is the record, that God hath given to us Eternal Life, and this Life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath Life ; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life.
Page 38 - I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Page 17 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?
Page 34 - For I know thy rebellion and thy stiff" neck : behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord ; and how much more after my death ? 28.
Page 34 - I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death? 28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.
Page 34 - Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you...
Page 19 - I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
Page 34 - And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.