Lectures on the Four Last Books of the Pentateuch: Designed to Show the Divine Origin of the Jewish Religion, Chiefly from Internal Evidence |
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... seems evidently to be that of Noah disguised by " Asiatic fiction , and of whom we may safely offer a conjecture that he was the same as " Saturn . " 66 On this epitome of the first Indian history which is now extant , Sir William Jones ...
... seems evidently to be that of Noah disguised by " Asiatic fiction , and of whom we may safely offer a conjecture that he was the same as " Saturn . " 66 On this epitome of the first Indian history which is now extant , Sir William Jones ...
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... seems to have risen almost to a superstitious reverence . * Extracts from the Mosaic Law were written on pieces of parchment , and placed on the borders of their garments , or round their wrists and foreheads . Nay , they at a later ...
... seems to have risen almost to a superstitious reverence . * Extracts from the Mosaic Law were written on pieces of parchment , and placed on the borders of their garments , or round their wrists and foreheads . Nay , they at a later ...
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... seems to have been that part of Deuteronomy which contains the prophetic declarations of the Lawgiver against the future apostasies of his people , which were so awful and severe as to excite the utmost terror in the young and pious ...
... seems to have been that part of Deuteronomy which contains the prophetic declarations of the Lawgiver against the future apostasies of his people , which were so awful and severe as to excite the utmost terror in the young and pious ...
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... seem sufficiently decisive . They may be confirmed by another argument from the internal struc- ture of the Pentateuch ; which I do not recollect to have seen noticed ; and which not only meets this objection , but goes fur- ther : and ...
... seem sufficiently decisive . They may be confirmed by another argument from the internal struc- ture of the Pentateuch ; which I do not recollect to have seen noticed ; and which not only meets this objection , but goes fur- ther : and ...
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... seems most evident that the main facts ( considering at present only such as were not supernatural ) were so public , so sin- gular , and so important , affecting in their consequences the most valuable rights and interests of every ...
... seems most evident that the main facts ( considering at present only such as were not supernatural ) were so public , so sin- gular , and so important , affecting in their consequences the most valuable rights and interests of every ...
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Page 303 - And behold I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Page 91 - 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 339 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 302 - By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 424 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 137 - And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Page 325 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 404 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth...
Page 147 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 302 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called...