Illustrations of the holy scriptures: in 3 parts, Volume 2Stirling, 1825 |
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... Jehovah descended in terrible majesty , to deliver the law from the top of Sinai , to the friskings of a young calf : " He maketh them also to skip like a calf : Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn . " The prophet Jeremiah is ...
... Jehovah descended in terrible majesty , to deliver the law from the top of Sinai , to the friskings of a young calf : " He maketh them also to skip like a calf : Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn . " The prophet Jeremiah is ...
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... Jehovah commanded a red heifer to be offered as a kind of sin offering , to purify from certain le- gal defilements . The animal was killed , and then burnt without the camp , ( as the sin offering was upon the great day of atonement ) ...
... Jehovah commanded a red heifer to be offered as a kind of sin offering , to purify from certain le- gal defilements . The animal was killed , and then burnt without the camp , ( as the sin offering was upon the great day of atonement ) ...
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... Jehovah commanded a cow to be burnt , rather than a bullock ; and one perfectly red , because that colour was held in great abhorrence by the Egyptians , who fancied that Typhon , in their superstition the source of all evil , was of ...
... Jehovah commanded a cow to be burnt , rather than a bullock ; and one perfectly red , because that colour was held in great abhorrence by the Egyptians , who fancied that Typhon , in their superstition the source of all evil , was of ...
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... Jehovah promised to be- stow upon his ransomed people , and classed with the choi- cest viands : The father of the family in the parable , had nothing more delicious to set before his repentant son , than the fatted calf : " Therefore ...
... Jehovah promised to be- stow upon his ransomed people , and classed with the choi- cest viands : The father of the family in the parable , had nothing more delicious to set before his repentant son , than the fatted calf : " Therefore ...
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... Jehovah himself , who made , and who graciously takes care of oxen : " Every moving thing , " said he to Noah , " shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb , have I given you all things . " confirmed to Israel in “ These are the ...
... Jehovah himself , who made , and who graciously takes care of oxen : " Every moving thing , " said he to Noah , " shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb , have I given you all things . " confirmed to Israel in “ These are the ...
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