A Biblical and Theological Dictionary: Explanatory of the History, Manners, and Customs of the Jews, and Neighbouring Nations. With an Account of the Most Remarkable Places and Persons Mentioned in Sacred Scripture; an Exposition of the Principal Doctrines of Christianity: and Notices of Jewish and Christian Sects and Heresies |
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... Greeks , and more modern Jews , was the same in all respects . The table was placed in the middle of the room , around which stood three couches covered with cloth or tapestry , according to the quality of the master of the house ; upon ...
... Greeks , and more modern Jews , was the same in all respects . The table was placed in the middle of the room , around which stood three couches covered with cloth or tapestry , according to the quality of the master of the house ; upon ...
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... Greeks , and is at pre- sent termed Zib . It is situated about ten miles north of Accho , or Ptolemais . Mr ... Greek word signifies , m general , a citadel . The Syrians and Chal- deans use 8 , in the same sense . King Antiochus gave ...
... Greeks , and is at pre- sent termed Zib . It is situated about ten miles north of Accho , or Ptolemais . Mr ... Greek word signifies , m general , a citadel . The Syrians and Chal- deans use 8 , in the same sense . King Antiochus gave ...
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... Greeks and Romans had many regulations concerning adoption . It does not appear that adoption , properly so called , was for- merly in use among the Jews . Moses makes no mention of it in his laws ; and the case of Jacob's two grandsons ...
... Greeks and Romans had many regulations concerning adoption . It does not appear that adoption , properly so called , was for- merly in use among the Jews . Moses makes no mention of it in his laws ; and the case of Jacob's two grandsons ...
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... Greeks called porkuveiv , Conon refused to perform to Artaxerxes , and Callisthenes to Alexander the Great , as ... Greek monarchy . When any one pays his respects to the king of Achen in Suma- tra , he first takes off his shoes and ...
... Greeks called porkuveiv , Conon refused to perform to Artaxerxes , and Callisthenes to Alexander the Great , as ... Greek monarchy . When any one pays his respects to the king of Achen in Suma- tra , he first takes off his shoes and ...
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... Greek word , signifying inaccessible , by which is understood the most retired and secret place of the heathen temples , into which none but the priests were allowed to enter . The adytum of the Greeks and Romans answered to the sanc ...
... Greek word , signifying inaccessible , by which is understood the most retired and secret place of the heathen temples , into which none but the priests were allowed to enter . The adytum of the Greeks and Romans answered to the sanc ...
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BIBLICAL & THEOLOGICAL DICT Richard 1781-1833 Watson,Nathan 1778-1862 Bangs No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 417 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 62 - Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not ; for he will not pardon your transgressions : for my name is in him.
Page 258 - And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also...
Page 299 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 238 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 238 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 58 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 267 - Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds ; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father ; by whom all things were made...
Page 392 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Page 47 - ... when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail...