A Key to the Symbolical Language of Scripture: By which Numerous Passages are Explained and Illustrated : Founded on the Symbolical Dictionary of Daubuz, with Additions from Vitringa, Ewaldus, and Others |
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... Acts xiv . 13 , where the priest of Jupiter is said to have brought filletted oxen to the gates , to per- form sacrifice . It is observable , that Gwuos in the Greek , and Ara in the Latin , is used only of an altar erected in ho- nour ...
... Acts xiv . 13 , where the priest of Jupiter is said to have brought filletted oxen to the gates , to per- form sacrifice . It is observable , that Gwuos in the Greek , and Ara in the Latin , is used only of an altar erected in ho- nour ...
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... acts she became the heiress and successor of all the Babylonian idolatry , and of all that was introduced into it , by the intermediate successors of Babylon , and consequently of all the idolatry of the earth . Rome Papal , corrupted ...
... acts she became the heiress and successor of all the Babylonian idolatry , and of all that was introduced into it , by the intermediate successors of Babylon , and consequently of all the idolatry of the earth . Rome Papal , corrupted ...
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... Acts viii . 23 , " The gall of bitterness ; " i . e . ex- treme wickedness , a state highly offensive to God , and hurtful to others . Heb . xiii . 15 , " A root of bitterness , " -a wicked or scandalous person , or any dangerous sin ...
... Acts viii . 23 , " The gall of bitterness ; " i . e . ex- treme wickedness , a state highly offensive to God , and hurtful to others . Heb . xiii . 15 , " A root of bitterness , " -a wicked or scandalous person , or any dangerous sin ...
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... acts of him that sees it . According to the Indian interpreters , a book is the symbol of power and dignity . The Jewish kings , at the time they were crowned , had the book of the law of God put into their hands . See 2 Kings xi . 2 ...
... acts of him that sees it . According to the Indian interpreters , a book is the symbol of power and dignity . The Jewish kings , at the time they were crowned , had the book of the law of God put into their hands . See 2 Kings xi . 2 ...
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... act wisely , And shall execute judgment and justice in the land . From the Babylonish captivity to the coming of Christ , David was without a successor of his family , sitting upon the throne of Judah or Israel , in any sense whatever ...
... act wisely , And shall execute judgment and justice in the land . From the Babylonish captivity to the coming of Christ , David was without a successor of his family , sitting upon the throne of Judah or Israel , in any sense whatever ...
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Page 51 - And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Page 224 - And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints about and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
Page 407 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Page 372 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea : 6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains ; being girded with power : 7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Page 77 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Page 409 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 462 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page 220 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Page 429 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
Page 439 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.