Lectures on Jewish Antiquities: Delivered at Harvard University in Cambridge, A.D. 1802 & 1803 |
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... light on this subject , we will briefly investigate the origin and progress of civ- il government in the early ages . The natural dependence of children on their parents , and their early habits of reverence and subjection to their ...
... light on this subject , we will briefly investigate the origin and progress of civ- il government in the early ages . The natural dependence of children on their parents , and their early habits of reverence and subjection to their ...
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... light on this , we went into a brief investigation of the origin and progress of civil government in the early ages . The result of this inquiry was , that political government was at first parental or patriarchal ; that in time it ...
... light on this , we went into a brief investigation of the origin and progress of civil government in the early ages . The result of this inquiry was , that political government was at first parental or patriarchal ; that in time it ...
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... light set up in the midst of a dark world ; a light , which preserved and in some measure diffused the knowl- edge and practice of pure religion and virtue , and thus kept alive in the human mind those principles , which LECT . III ...
... light set up in the midst of a dark world ; a light , which preserved and in some measure diffused the knowl- edge and practice of pure religion and virtue , and thus kept alive in the human mind those principles , which LECT . III ...
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... light on our present subject . It has been much disputed whether this Hebrew coun- cil of seventy was a perpetual , or only a temporary in- stitution . The Jewish Rabbies , though they allow that the session of this court was sometimes ...
... light on our present subject . It has been much disputed whether this Hebrew coun- cil of seventy was a perpetual , or only a temporary in- stitution . The Jewish Rabbies , though they allow that the session of this court was sometimes ...
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... light from the manner of Joshua's induction or accession to the government . In the first place Moses , a little before his death , by divine direction , publickly invests him with the office , and administers a solemn charge of ...
... light from the manner of Joshua's induction or accession to the government . In the first place Moses , a little before his death , by divine direction , publickly invests him with the office , and administers a solemn charge of ...
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Page 82 - And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites : and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life : that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 292 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 181 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 21 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 15 - 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 304 - And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 305 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 252 - BLOW ye the trumpet, blow ! The gladly solemn sound, Let all the nations know, To earth's remotest bound, The year of jubilee is come : Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.
Page 293 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 133 - And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.