Illustrations of Prophecy: in the Course of which are Elucidated Many Predictions, which Occur in Isaiah, Or Daniel, in the Writings of the Evangelists, Or the Book of Revelation; ... Together with a Large Collection of Extracts, Interspersed Through the Work, and Taken from Numerous Commentators; ...1796 - 799 pages |
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Page 317
... Jewish copy . Not long after this , the books of the Old Tefta- ment , beginning with the Pentateuch , were translated ' into Greek , and difperfed , by means of the Jews , into ' almost every part of the known world . There is not ...
... Jewish copy . Not long after this , the books of the Old Tefta- ment , beginning with the Pentateuch , were translated ' into Greek , and difperfed , by means of the Jews , into ' almost every part of the known world . There is not ...
Page 318
... Jews have , no doubt , acted ⚫ the part of most faithful and even scrupulous guardians of their facred books , for the use of all the world in the times of Christianity . After the laft of the pro- phets , Malachi , they admitted no ...
... Jews have , no doubt , acted ⚫ the part of most faithful and even scrupulous guardians of their facred books , for the use of all the world in the times of Christianity . After the laft of the pro- phets , Malachi , they admitted no ...
Page 319
... Jews in preserving the fcriptures , ' that their Maforites numbered not only the fections , ' but even the words and letters , that no fraud or inad- vertency might corrupt the leaft iota of what they ' esteemed fo facred . If a word ...
... Jews in preserving the fcriptures , ' that their Maforites numbered not only the fections , ' but even the words and letters , that no fraud or inad- vertency might corrupt the leaft iota of what they ' esteemed fo facred . If a word ...
Page 321
... Jews , who were remarkably ignorant of what paffed in fo- reign countries 11. ' C The pretenfions of the Hebrew prophets to be con- ' fidered as God's appointed fervants , were , ' fays Mr. Gray , demonftrated by the unimpeachable ...
... Jews , who were remarkably ignorant of what paffed in fo- reign countries 11. ' C The pretenfions of the Hebrew prophets to be con- ' fidered as God's appointed fervants , were , ' fays Mr. Gray , demonftrated by the unimpeachable ...
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... Jews in the worfhip of the one true God ; but to fpread the knowledge of him among • the neighbouring nations , by the fame of their predic- ⚫tions and miracles . They were a barrier against those ' prevailing kinds of superstition ...
... Jews in the worfhip of the one true God ; but to fpread the knowledge of him among • the neighbouring nations , by the fame of their predic- ⚫tions and miracles . They were a barrier against those ' prevailing kinds of superstition ...
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Page 376 - And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever, that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and WHEN HE SHALL HAVE ACCOMPLISHED TO SCATTER THE POWER OF THE HOLY PEOPLE, ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE FINISHED.
Page 537 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Page 582 - And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
Page 458 - And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates ; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Page 582 - Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land. And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all ; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
Page 582 - I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul ; that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
Page 547 - Watch therefore ; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Page 723 - Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled ; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Page 740 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them : and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands ; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Page 504 - And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent ; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for the plague thereof was exceeding great.