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... Prophecy , connect- ing all its parts as if by a thread of gold , runs the great idea of God . Every thing is accessory , illustrative , and collateral to this idea . In the Old Testament we find a series of means , extending over ...
... Prophecy , connect- ing all its parts as if by a thread of gold , runs the great idea of God . Every thing is accessory , illustrative , and collateral to this idea . In the Old Testament we find a series of means , extending over ...
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... prophetic history . - In the Jewish annals we see that there was an order of events in which one thing prepared the way for another ; - Abraham , Moses , the peculiarities of the Jewish state , the prophets , under the guidance of ...
... prophetic history . - In the Jewish annals we see that there was an order of events in which one thing prepared the way for another ; - Abraham , Moses , the peculiarities of the Jewish state , the prophets , under the guidance of ...
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... prophets spoke , as they claim , from a Di- vine impulse , moved thereunto by the Holy Spirit . Were there uncertainty in regard to the meaning of every separate prophecy commonly applied to the Saviour , it would not affect our faith ...
... prophets spoke , as they claim , from a Di- vine impulse , moved thereunto by the Holy Spirit . Were there uncertainty in regard to the meaning of every separate prophecy commonly applied to the Saviour , it would not affect our faith ...
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... prophets uttered their warnings , and then the cold and cheerless hours before the dawn , when for four hundred years the heart of Judaism waited , but never despaired , till at length , scattering the shadows , the visible centre of ...
... prophets uttered their warnings , and then the cold and cheerless hours before the dawn , when for four hundred years the heart of Judaism waited , but never despaired , till at length , scattering the shadows , the visible centre of ...
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... Prophecy alike bring the believing mind into the presence of the Almighty Providence , and crowd upon the attention , what we ... Prophets ; Beard's People's Dictionary of the Bible ; Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Litera- ture ; Jahn's ...
... Prophecy alike bring the believing mind into the presence of the Almighty Providence , and crowd upon the attention , what we ... Prophets ; Beard's People's Dictionary of the Bible ; Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Litera- ture ; Jahn's ...
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Abishai Abraham Absalom Babylon blessed brethren brother brought Cain Canaan captivity carried character Christ Chron command Daniel Darius David death descendants Deut Divine earth Egypt Egyptians evil Exod Ezra faith father flocks Give an account given respecting hath heart heathen heavens Hebrew idolatrous Isaac Ishbosheth Israelites Jacob Jehoiachin Jehovah Jeroboam Jerusalem Jewish Jews Jonathan Joseph Josh Joshua Judges kingdom of Israel KINGDOM OF JUDAH Kings viii Kings xii Kings xxiv land of Egypt Law of Moses LESSON Lord thy Moab moral Mosaic Law nations Nebuchadnezzar Noah Old Testament Pharaoh priests promise prophets Providence providential Psalms punishment Rehoboam reign religion religious returned Ruth Samuel Saul servants Shechem Solomon sons temple thee Thou shalt tion tribes truth unity unto wept wilderness wisdom worship xlii xvii xxii xxiii xxxvii
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Page 63 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 132 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Page 46 - For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright ; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Page 57 - But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones.
Page 44 - The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth; and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south, and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Page 65 - And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 59 - Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh That thou mayest bring forth My People, The children of Israel, out of Egypt.
Page 55 - And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Page 51 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 54 - Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life.