Wanderings in Scripture Lands: Being a Tour of Nine Months in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece ... 1869-1870 |
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Wanderings in Scripture Lands: Being a Tour of Nine Months in Egypt ... Thomas Robinson No preview available - 2019 |
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Acropolis Ęschylus Alexandria altar ancient Apostle appearance Arabic ascended Athens Attica Baalbec Battle of Marathon battle of Salamis beautiful Beyroot Bible blessing boys built Cairo called cella CHAPTER Christian church columns congregation connection Constantinople Copts covered cross Damascus Damascus Gate Egypt enter erected farther feet formed four front gardens girls Gospel Greek ground hill Holy hundred interesting Israel Jaffa Gate Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews King labour land Lebanon Lord Luke magnificent marble Matt miles missionary Moslems mosque Mount Mount of Olives mountains native Nazareth neighbourhood olive once opposite party passed picturesque plain portico prayer present priests probably prophet quarter received remains road rock rocky roof ruins Sabbath Saviour scene Scripture sculptured sepulchre Sheikh side slope standing stones stood street Syrian temple thousand tomb town trees valley village wall words worship Zahleh Zion
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Page 200 - Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed ? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high ? even against the Holy One of Israel.
Page 155 - AWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Page 283 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Page 214 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth ? is not he that sitteth at meat? But I am among you as he that serveth.
Page 288 - ... run with patience, the race set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith...
Page 131 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 148 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 32 - For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy : for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Page 6 - Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Page 308 - Yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: Because the palaces shall be forsaken ; The multitude of the city shall be left; The forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, A joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks...