Two Apologies: One for Christianity, in a Series of Letters Addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq. The Other for the Bible, in Answer to Thomas Paine. To which are Added Two Sermons, and a Charge, in Defence of Religion |
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Page 187
... Genesis , Exo , dus , Leviticus , Numbers , and Deuteronomy . Your intention , you profess , is to shew that these books are spurious , and that Moses is not the author of them ; and still farther , that they were not written in the ...
... Genesis , Exo , dus , Leviticus , Numbers , and Deuteronomy . Your intention , you profess , is to shew that these books are spurious , and that Moses is not the author of them ; and still farther , that they were not written in the ...
Page 188
... on the subject in his younger years ; he made a public recantation of his error , by annex- ing to his commentary on Genesis , a Latin dis- sertation - concerning Moses , the author of the Pentateuch 188 AN APOLOGY FOR THE BIBLE .
... on the subject in his younger years ; he made a public recantation of his error , by annex- ing to his commentary on Genesis , a Latin dis- sertation - concerning Moses , the author of the Pentateuch 188 AN APOLOGY FOR THE BIBLE .
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... sabbath in the book of Genesis , is said by way of antici- pation . There may be truth in both these ac- counts . To me it is probable , that the memory of the Creation was handed down from Adam to all AN APOLOGY FOR THE BIBLE . 197.
... sabbath in the book of Genesis , is said by way of antici- pation . There may be truth in both these ac- counts . To me it is probable , that the memory of the Creation was handed down from Adam to all AN APOLOGY FOR THE BIBLE . 197.
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... Genesis . Your first argument is taken from the single word - Dan - being found in Genesis , when it appears from the book of Judges , that the town of Laish was not called Dan , till above three hundred and thirty years after the death ...
... Genesis . Your first argument is taken from the single word - Dan - being found in Genesis , when it appears from the book of Judges , that the town of Laish was not called Dan , till above three hundred and thirty years after the death ...
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... Genesis , was the same town as the Dan , men- tioned in Judges . I desire , further , to have it proved , that the Dan mentioned in Genesis , was the name of a town , and not of a river . It is merely said - Abraham pursued them , the ...
... Genesis , was the same town as the Dan , men- tioned in Judges . I desire , further , to have it proved , that the Dan mentioned in Genesis , was the name of a town , and not of a river . It is merely said - Abraham pursued them , the ...
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