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... Egyptian , Assyrian , and Jewish proper names which occur in the Bible , I have adopted the Biblical form as being more familiar to English readers , ad- hering in other cases to that adopted by Herr von Ranke . In Greek names , while ...
... Egyptian , Assyrian , and Jewish proper names which occur in the Bible , I have adopted the Biblical form as being more familiar to English readers , ad- hering in other cases to that adopted by Herr von Ranke . In Greek names , while ...
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... EGYPT . In the dawn of history the popular conceptions of things divine are found to coincide with the tendencies of human life and the spirit of political organization . They summarize and express those tendencies and that spirit in a ...
... EGYPT . In the dawn of history the popular conceptions of things divine are found to coincide with the tendencies of human life and the spirit of political organization . They summarize and express those tendencies and that spirit in a ...
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... Egypt . The Egyptian religion has its origin in an epoch which we lack the means of investigating . In inquiring into its meaning and purport , we have no intention of encroaching upon those labors by which modern research endeavors to ...
... Egypt . The Egyptian religion has its origin in an epoch which we lack the means of investigating . In inquiring into its meaning and purport , we have no intention of encroaching upon those labors by which modern research endeavors to ...
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... Egypt has been supposed to pre- sent a distant affinity with the Semitic tongues . But , isolated as they were by nature , it is no wonder if the Egyptians framed a religion exclusively their own , and a political con- stitution equally ...
... Egypt has been supposed to pre- sent a distant affinity with the Semitic tongues . But , isolated as they were by nature , it is no wonder if the Egyptians framed a religion exclusively their own , and a political con- stitution equally ...
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... Egyptian : properly speaking , there was nothing profane in the land . There was a numerous priesthood , which ... Egypt to be spoken of with contempt . The Egyptians , in this rivalling Babylon , determined the course of the sun in ...
... Egyptian : properly speaking , there was nothing profane in the land . There was a numerous priesthood , which ... Egypt to be spoken of with contempt . The Egyptians , in this rivalling Babylon , determined the course of the sun in ...
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Page 26 - I AM the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. THOU shalt have no other gods before me. THOU shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 42 - For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee from being king.
Page 25 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
Page 37 - Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian. 23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you : the LORD shall rule over you.