Researches and Missionary Labours Among the Jews, Mohammedans, and Other SectsResearches and Missionary Labours Among the Jews, Mohammedans, And Other Sects by Joseph Wolff, first published in 1835, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... lived with the family of Mr. Gliddon . January 10. The power of Mohammed Ali has in- creased , through the weakness and timidity of the Sultan ; and people of discernment believe , that Mohammed Ali is making preparations to dethrone ...
... lived with the family of Mr. Gliddon . January 10. The power of Mohammed Ali has in- creased , through the weakness and timidity of the Sultan ; and people of discernment believe , that Mohammed Ali is making preparations to dethrone ...
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... lived , i . e . the land of Uz . Constantinople are many of the sect of Shabatay Zebi , the pretended Messiah in the 17th . century , who apos- tatized and became a Turk : nevertheless the sect still continues . I have already given a ...
... lived , i . e . the land of Uz . Constantinople are many of the sect of Shabatay Zebi , the pretended Messiah in the 17th . century , who apos- tatized and became a Turk : nevertheless the sect still continues . I have already given a ...
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... lived there for these 300 years . I left them a Bible , and expounded to them the Scriptures in the synagogues . They are not in possession of the Talmudical books . * All Jews who are descendants of the Spanish Jews , are called ...
... lived there for these 300 years . I left them a Bible , and expounded to them the Scriptures in the synagogues . They are not in possession of the Talmudical books . * All Jews who are descendants of the Spanish Jews , are called ...
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... lived latterly in his house , and conversed freely with him on all points . He has the good of his nation at heart , and tried by arguments to put a stop to the progress of the Catholics . HAJI DEMETRAKI . An amiable and inquisitive ...
... lived latterly in his house , and conversed freely with him on all points . He has the good of his nation at heart , and tried by arguments to put a stop to the progress of the Catholics . HAJI DEMETRAKI . An amiable and inquisitive ...
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... lived first with the Armenian Catholic Bogos Bambugtshi , the most respec- table of the native Christians there . As yet they have not built a church for themselves ; but they were very anxious to do so ; which made the rest of the ...
... lived first with the Armenian Catholic Bogos Bambugtshi , the most respec- table of the native Christians there . As yet they have not built a church for themselves ; but they were very anxious to do so ; which made the rest of the ...
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Page 198 - And it shall come to pass in that day, That the Lord shall set his hand again the second time To recover the remnant of his people, Which shall be left, from Assyria, And from Egypt, and from Pathros, And from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, And from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Page 57 - I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul ; that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
Page 192 - I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Page 200 - Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them One stick, and they shall be One in mine hand.
Page 61 - But who may abide the day of his coming ? and who shall stand when he appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver ; and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that thejr may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
Page 198 - And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Page 399 - There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
Page 197 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind...
Page 397 - But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.