The Antediluvian History, and Narrative of the Flood: As Set Forth in the Early Portions of the Book of Genesis |
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... existence of this principle can be produced from every page of the sacred volume ; and it is rationally confirmed by the cir- cumstance , that , as a work of God , it must , to be in analogy with all other of His works , contain ...
... existence of this principle can be produced from every page of the sacred volume ; and it is rationally confirmed by the cir- cumstance , that , as a work of God , it must , to be in analogy with all other of His works , contain ...
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... existence , more or less remotely , from some condition and activity in the latter . Now , as God's primary object in making a revelation to man is to furnish him with the means of knowing something concerning spiritual things , it is ...
... existence , more or less remotely , from some condition and activity in the latter . Now , as God's primary object in making a revelation to man is to furnish him with the means of knowing something concerning spiritual things , it is ...
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... existence ; and the deeper we penetrate into their mental history , the less literal and more poetic shall we find their methods of expression to have been . This fact is not to be disre- garded , in prosecuting the inquiry we have now ...
... existence ; and the deeper we penetrate into their mental history , the less literal and more poetic shall we find their methods of expression to have been . This fact is not to be disre- garded , in prosecuting the inquiry we have now ...
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... existence , has established facts , which are utterly repugnant to the popular interpretation of the first chapter of the Hebrew Scriptures . The evidences , which geology has brought to light , carries us back into an unutterable ...
... existence , has established facts , which are utterly repugnant to the popular interpretation of the first chapter of the Hebrew Scriptures . The evidences , which geology has brought to light , carries us back into an unutterable ...
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... existence and there are few , who have not noticed the manner in which the making of woman was begun . Into what palpable dilemmas will the adoption of erroneous premises conduct us ! If it is once clearly perceived , that an ...
... existence and there are few , who have not noticed the manner in which the making of woman was begun . Into what palpable dilemmas will the adoption of erroneous premises conduct us ! If it is once clearly perceived , that an ...
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Page 77 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 236 - The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Page 306 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Page 221 - And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Page 116 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Page 40 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Page 69 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid: and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 141 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, "Because thou hast done this, Thou art cursed above all cattle, And above every beast of the field; Upon thy belly shalt thou go, And dust shalt thou eat All the days of thy life...
Page 170 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 268 - But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. * For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away ; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.