The Manners of the Antient Israelites: Containing an Account of Their Peculiar Customs, Ceremonines, Laws, Polity, Religion, Sects, Arts and Trades, Their Division of Time, Wars, Captivities, Dispersion, and Present State |
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... mentioned , I considered as ranking next to that of the Abbé Fleury . From Mr. Bundy's edition , much of the fourth part of the present volume is extracted . Those points which I thought the Abbé had treated too concisely to make ...
... mentioned , I considered as ranking next to that of the Abbé Fleury . From Mr. Bundy's edition , much of the fourth part of the present volume is extracted . Those points which I thought the Abbé had treated too concisely to make ...
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... mention of it before Moses . However difficult it may seem to conceive that so many calculations as he recites should have been preserved in the me- The author here follows the chronology of Archbishop Ussher , who supposes that Shem ...
... mention of it before Moses . However difficult it may seem to conceive that so many calculations as he recites should have been preserved in the me- The author here follows the chronology of Archbishop Ussher , who supposes that Shem ...
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... mentioned in the history of Isaac . Sometimes they gave new names to places . The Greeks and Romans relate the same ... mention no CHAP . 11. ] 9 Of the Patriarchs .
... mentioned in the history of Isaac . Sometimes they gave new names to places . The Greeks and Romans relate the same ... mention no CHAP . 11. ] 9 Of the Patriarchs .
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... mention no others , left some in every place that he passed through in Greece , Sicily , and Italy . " The very names of the Patriarchs were besides a sort of more simple and familiar monuments . They signified some remarkable ...
... mention no others , left some in every place that he passed through in Greece , Sicily , and Italy . " The very names of the Patriarchs were besides a sort of more simple and familiar monuments . They signified some remarkable ...
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... mentioned were built by wicked men . Cain and Nimrod were the first that erected walls and fortifications to secure themselves from the punishment due to their crimes , and to give them an opportunity of com- mitting fresh ones with ...
... mentioned were built by wicked men . Cain and Nimrod were the first that erected walls and fortifications to secure themselves from the punishment due to their crimes , and to give them an opportunity of com- mitting fresh ones with ...
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Page 297 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me ? saith the LORD : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 14 - Thus I was ; in the day the -drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Page 327 - I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you ? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren ? 6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
Page 286 - Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Page 296 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 307 - ... sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
Page 331 - We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever: Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
Page 319 - According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
Page 364 - Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God : on them which fell, severity ; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness : otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Page 321 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.