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... Israelites marched in perfect security ; while the Egyptians , plunging in after them , were , upon the arrival of the fugitives at the opposite shore , overwhelmed by the returning waves . Is it consistent with reason to believe , that ...
... Israelites marched in perfect security ; while the Egyptians , plunging in after them , were , upon the arrival of the fugitives at the opposite shore , overwhelmed by the returning waves . Is it consistent with reason to believe , that ...
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... Israelites at the period of the exode ; yet we take it upon us to affirm , not only that such a deception could not be passed upon them , but that no sane per- son , far less a man possessed of the splendid talents which undeniably ...
... Israelites at the period of the exode ; yet we take it upon us to affirm , not only that such a deception could not be passed upon them , but that no sane per- son , far less a man possessed of the splendid talents which undeniably ...
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... Israelites , but they give an historical account of each enactment , and they assign the reasons upon which it is founded . They assert , for example , that the rite of circum- cision was instituted as a mark of the covenant be- tween ...
... Israelites , but they give an historical account of each enactment , and they assign the reasons upon which it is founded . They assert , for example , that the rite of circum- cision was instituted as a mark of the covenant be- tween ...
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... Israelites could have been persuaded , that they and their fathers had all been circumcised on the eighth day from their birth , had the case not been so ? or , that the Pass- over was kept in memory of the deliverance from Egypt , had ...
... Israelites could have been persuaded , that they and their fathers had all been circumcised on the eighth day from their birth , had the case not been so ? or , that the Pass- over was kept in memory of the deliverance from Egypt , had ...
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... Israelites circumcised their children , it appears , they knew not why , and they kept the Passover on grounds equally vague . Such had been the practice among them for ages , till at last there arose an ingenious person , who assured ...
... Israelites circumcised their children , it appears , they knew not why , and they kept the Passover on grounds equally vague . Such had been the practice among them for ages , till at last there arose an ingenious person , who assured ...
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Page 178 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 71 - But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Page 50 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 52 - And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Page 151 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed...
Page 273 - Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel : and there was no strength in him ; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
Page 167 - And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Page 278 - ... in their schools of philosophy. Accordingly there was a Presumption against chnst the Gospel in its first announcement. A Jewish peasant claimed to be the promised Deliverer, in whom all the nations of the Earth were to be blessed.
Page 268 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 268 - And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur that is over against Egypt. And he took Agag, the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings and the lambs and all that was good and would not utterly destroy them. But every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.