The Patriarchal Age, Or, The History and Religion of Mankind from the Creation to the Death of Isaac: Deduced from the Writings of Moses and Other Inspired Authors and Illustrated by Copious References to the Ancient Records, Traditions, and Mythology of the Heathen World |
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... scripture and the great principles of revealed religion . After long and diligent inquiry , he could meet with no work of this description , and was consequently compelled , for the satisfaction of his own mind , to commence a course of ...
... scripture and the great principles of revealed religion . After long and diligent inquiry , he could meet with no work of this description , and was consequently compelled , for the satisfaction of his own mind , to commence a course of ...
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... Scripture their separate and independent Character : their chronological Disagreement - NECESSITY OF ADOPTING A SOUND SYSTEM OF CHRONOLOGY . ( I. ) WHETHER THESE SEVERAL VER- SIONS EVER AGREED IN THEIR CHRONOLOGY ; and , if so , which ...
... Scripture their separate and independent Character : their chronological Disagreement - NECESSITY OF ADOPTING A SOUND SYSTEM OF CHRONOLOGY . ( I. ) WHETHER THESE SEVERAL VER- SIONS EVER AGREED IN THEIR CHRONOLOGY ; and , if so , which ...
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... Scriptures - Value of corrobo- rative historical Testimony ......... ... Page . 284 CHAPTER VI . THE HISTORY OF MANKIND ... SCRIPTURE PATRIARCHS , FROM THE DIS- PERSION TO THE DEATH OF ISAAC . JOB , the same with Jobab the Son of Joktan ...
... Scriptures - Value of corrobo- rative historical Testimony ......... ... Page . 284 CHAPTER VI . THE HISTORY OF MANKIND ... SCRIPTURE PATRIARCHS , FROM THE DIS- PERSION TO THE DEATH OF ISAAC . JOB , the same with Jobab the Son of Joktan ...
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... Scripture : their sepa- rate and independent Character : their chronological Disagreement -NECESSITY OF ADOPTING A SOUND SYSTEM OF CHRONOLOGY . ( I. ) WHETHER THESE SEVERAL VERSIONS EVER AGREED IN THEIR CHRO- NOLOGY ; and , if so ...
... Scripture : their sepa- rate and independent Character : their chronological Disagreement -NECESSITY OF ADOPTING A SOUND SYSTEM OF CHRONOLOGY . ( I. ) WHETHER THESE SEVERAL VERSIONS EVER AGREED IN THEIR CHRO- NOLOGY ; and , if so ...
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... scriptures , or be able to trace , with any confidence , the harmony of the sacred narrative with other authentic remains of ... scripture ; the difference which we have exhibited being found to exist in the numbers now contained in the ...
... scriptures , or be able to trace , with any confidence , the harmony of the sacred narrative with other authentic remains of ... scripture ; the difference which we have exhibited being found to exist in the numbers now contained in the ...
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Abel Abraham Abram Adam ancient animal antediluvian antiquity appears Armenia Arphaxad Asshur Assyria Babylon believe Berosus blessed Book of Job Cain Cainan called Chaldean chap character chronology circumstances connexion creation Cronus Deity Deluge descendants Divine doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian Enoch evidence exhibit existence fact faith father Flood Greek Haran Heathen heaven Hebrew holy scripture human hundred idolatry important Japheth Jehovah Joktan Josephus king knowledge Lamech language learned lived Lord Manetho mankind Mosaic Moses Nahor narrative nations nature Nimrod Ninus Noah observed opinion origin passage patriarch period Persia preserved primitive racter reason records refer reign religion religious remarkable rendered respecting revelation sacred sacrifice says Septuagint serpent Serug shalt Shem Shinar sons supposed temple Terah thee things thou tion traditions translation truth unto Verse whole words worship writing
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Page 461 - And God heard the voice of the lad ; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. № Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
Page 479 - And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends : for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Page 148 - And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 123 - And GOD said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 166 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx A stone.
Page 297 - Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons...
Page 362 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 286 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 500 - 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 168 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life...