Esther and Her Times: In a Series of Lectures on the Book of EstherPresbyterian board of publication, 1859 - 276 pages |
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... called forth by special occasions ; and that the best re- mains of many a public speaker are not those upon which he has bestowed the greatest thought and care . But though the fitting word to the occasion is so im- portant to the ...
... called forth by special occasions ; and that the best re- mains of many a public speaker are not those upon which he has bestowed the greatest thought and care . But though the fitting word to the occasion is so im- portant to the ...
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... called to the Book of Esther by a volume of Lectures upon it by the Rev. Dr. Thomas McCrie ; and to this unpretending little volume alone — one of surpassing interest - does he feel under obligations demanding special acknowledgment ...
... called to the Book of Esther by a volume of Lectures upon it by the Rev. Dr. Thomas McCrie ; and to this unpretending little volume alone — one of surpassing interest - does he feel under obligations demanding special acknowledgment ...
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... called a Mace- donian , though previously an Agagite . These dif- ficulties sufficiently warrant the rejection of chapters , which have no plausible claims to prefer for their inspired authority . The TIME when these events occurred can ...
... called a Mace- donian , though previously an Agagite . These dif- ficulties sufficiently warrant the rejection of chapters , which have no plausible claims to prefer for their inspired authority . The TIME when these events occurred can ...
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... called the Father of History , began to write about the same time that the books of Ezra and Nehemiah were composed : and these , at the latest , are not more than contemporaneous with the book of Esther . The writings of Moses are the ...
... called the Father of History , began to write about the same time that the books of Ezra and Nehemiah were composed : and these , at the latest , are not more than contemporaneous with the book of Esther . The writings of Moses are the ...
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... called Abraham , and in his family established the Jewish church , and built around it walls of exclusive and separated interests , conserva- tive of the great principles of piety , until the rest of the world had tried man's own awful ...
... called Abraham , and in his family established the Jewish church , and built around it walls of exclusive and separated interests , conserva- tive of the great principles of piety , until the rest of the world had tried man's own awful ...
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Page 231 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 207 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 89 - Let us be patient! These severe afflictions not from the ground arise, but oftentimes celestial benedictions assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, amid these earthly damps; what seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, may be heaven's distant lamps.
Page 174 - For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head : and let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Page 153 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Page 45 - Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
Page 227 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 252 - Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city. 20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations ; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
Page 148 - Perhaps He will admit my plea, Perhaps will hear my prayer, But if I perish, I will pray, And perish only there. 6 I can but perish if I go; I am resolved to try; For, if I stay away, I know I must for ever die.
Page 159 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.