A Key to the Chronology of the Hindus: In a Series of Letters, in which an Attempt is Made to Facilitate the Progress of Christianity in Hindostan, by Proving that the Protracted Numbers of All Oriental Nations when Reduced Agree with the Dates Given in the Hebrew Text of the Bible ... |
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Page 64 - Spirit, by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Page 16 - But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 190 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 61 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Page 174 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 62 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 289 - And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Page 68 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Page ix - By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him, for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Page 356 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
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| Title | A Key to the Chronology of the Hindus: In a Series of Letters, in which an Attempt is Made to Facilitate the Progress of Christianity in Hindostan, by Proving that the Protracted Numbers of All Oriental Nations when Reduced Agree with the Dates Given in the Hebrew Text of the Bible ... Volume 1 of A key to the chronology of the Hindus: in a series of letters, in which an attempt is made to facilitate the progress of Christianity in Hindostan, by proving that the protracted numbers of all Oriental nations when reduced agree with the dates given in the Hebrew text of the Bible, Alexander Hamilton |
| Author | Alexander Hamilton |
| Publisher | J. Smith, 1820 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 15 Sep 2005 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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