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... Darkness supernatural Testimony of Phlegon of Suidas -- and the re- mark of Dionysius the Areopagite ... Burial of the Savior ... Evidences of the resurrection --- Plea of the guards answered in seven different ways ... Ascension ...
... Darkness supernatural Testimony of Phlegon of Suidas -- and the re- mark of Dionysius the Areopagite ... Burial of the Savior ... Evidences of the resurrection --- Plea of the guards answered in seven different ways ... Ascension ...
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... darkness covered the earth , and gross darkness the people , " the self - same principles were held ; but alas ! they were not directed to a right object ! It is affecting to see the wretched and ignorant sons of men obeying the ...
... darkness covered the earth , and gross darkness the people , " the self - same principles were held ; but alas ! they were not directed to a right object ! It is affecting to see the wretched and ignorant sons of men obeying the ...
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... darkness was upon the face of the deep . " The poets sang of Elysian fields and Tar- tarean punishments ; but these were regarded as the flights of an ardent imagination ; and the fictions un- der which their theories were buried , were ...
... darkness was upon the face of the deep . " The poets sang of Elysian fields and Tar- tarean punishments ; but these were regarded as the flights of an ardent imagination ; and the fictions un- der which their theories were buried , were ...
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... darkness , was the work of the first day . " And God said , let there be light ; and there was light . " A more simple and more literal This very translation is , " Be light ; and light was . " passage , in its connexion , has been ...
... darkness , was the work of the first day . " And God said , let there be light ; and there was light . " A more simple and more literal This very translation is , " Be light ; and light was . " passage , in its connexion , has been ...
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... darkness " on the first , I should rather imagine it to be the same parti- cles of light diffused , which were afterwards collected into one body — the sun . But of these various opin- ions the reader will judge for himself . 2. Does ...
... darkness " on the first , I should rather imagine it to be the same parti- cles of light diffused , which were afterwards collected into one body — the sun . But of these various opin- ions the reader will judge for himself . 2. Does ...
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Page 133 - Then the Lord rained upon Sodom, and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 267 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
Page 75 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 128 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 350 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory: The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in.
Page 39 - Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...
Page 188 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 149 - And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life ; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Page 366 - Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations...
Page 294 - But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.