 | Robert Clayton - Athanasian Creed - 1751 - 408 pages
...the Mojl High divided to the Nations their Inheritance ; When hefeparated the Sons of Adam, he Jet the Bounds of the Nations according to the Number of the Angels of God, and the Lord's Portion is his People Jacob, the [8] Line of his Inheritance Ifrael. And the... | |
 | Edward King - Bible - 1800 - 542 pages
...their lots, when He fpread abroad [or fowed abroad the feed of~\ the fans of Adam ^ He eflabll/hed the bounds of the nations^ according to the number of the Angels of God. That is, (as the words feem in their trued fignification to imply,) The Almighty determined... | |
 | William Jones - Theology - 1801 - 428 pages
...the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of Godp. The words which the LXX have most unaccountably translated by «/yeAoi $m, angels of God,... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 516 pages
...the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons •of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God*. The words which the LXX have most unaccountably translated by cj 3-£», angels of God, are... | |
 | Classical philology - 1823 - 418 pages
...according to the number of the children of Israel. Instead of this, the LXX give the passage thus: " He appointed the bounds of the nations, according to the number of the Angels." It is said that, " the antient Greek fathers, who followed this translation, were led into great difficulties... | |
 | Classical philology - 1823 - 418 pages
...according to the number of the children of Israel. Instead of this, the LXX give the passage thus: " He appointed the bounds of the nations, according to the number of the Angels." It is said that, " the antient Greek fathers, who followed this translation, were led into great difficulties... | |
 | John Scott - 1826 - 648 pages
...the bounds of the nations according' to the number of the children of Israel, they render it, He set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God: for as the ancient Jews distributed the Gentile world into seventy-two nations, so they also... | |
 | William Osburn - Apostolic Fathers - 1835 - 374 pages
...misled by the Septuagint, which renders Deut. xxxii. 8., in utter defiance of the Hebrew ; " he" God " appointed the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God." 108 6 Strom. § 17. 109 7 Strom. § 2. Clement supposes that the Greeks derived their philosophy... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - Bible - 1839 - 570 pages
...possession of that country." The Septuagint renders the second distich as follows:— He established the bounds of the nations According to the number of the angels of God. Upon which Bishop Warburton remarks:—"It is intelligible enough as referring to the old notion... | |
 | Richard Arthur Francis Barrett - Bible - 1847 - 428 pages
...came to take possession of that country [so Pool]. How the LXX came to translate these words thus, " He appointed the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels," it is hard to say. Bochartus hath made the best conjecture about it (which was hinted by De Muis before... | |
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... when the Most High divided the nations, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God... 
