The Antediluvian History, and Narrative of the Flood: As Set Forth in the Early Portions of the Book of Genesis |
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... observed that it is a principle which will admit of a diversity of literal structure ; and conse- quently , that such a structure has always been employed as was in agreement with the characteristics of the people , to whom it was ...
... observed that it is a principle which will admit of a diversity of literal structure ; and conse- quently , that such a structure has always been employed as was in agreement with the characteristics of the people , to whom it was ...
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... observed , that if this work had been written for his own religious connections merely , the author would , in many instances , have adopted another mode of treatment and expression ; but as it was designed for more general use , he has ...
... observed , that if this work had been written for his own religious connections merely , the author would , in many instances , have adopted another mode of treatment and expression ; but as it was designed for more general use , he has ...
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... observe , that they suggest physical senses to the terms , and ideas to the sentiments which they express , which never could have sprung out of the narrative itself ; and also , that those senses and sentiments owe their origin to ...
... observe , that they suggest physical senses to the terms , and ideas to the sentiments which they express , which never could have sprung out of the narrative itself ; and also , that those senses and sentiments owe their origin to ...
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... observe , that they , with all the other peculiarities recorded in the first eleven chapters of Genesis , were never in- tended to convey to mankind , any information respecting the nat- ural world , or the earthly history of its ...
... observe , that they , with all the other peculiarities recorded in the first eleven chapters of Genesis , were never in- tended to convey to mankind , any information respecting the nat- ural world , or the earthly history of its ...
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... observe , that they , with all the other peculiarities recorded in the first eleven chapters of Genesis , were never in- tended to convey to mankind , any information respecting the nat- ural world , or the earthly history of its ...
... observe , that they , with all the other peculiarities recorded in the first eleven chapters of Genesis , were never in- tended to convey to mankind , any information respecting the nat- ural world , or the earthly history of its ...
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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.