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... mean the same thing as Covenant , or Dispensation , implying not so much the existence of any legal contract , as an offer of something advan- tageous on the one part , and its acceptance on the other . The Old Testament comprises all ...
... mean the same thing as Covenant , or Dispensation , implying not so much the existence of any legal contract , as an offer of something advan- tageous on the one part , and its acceptance on the other . The Old Testament comprises all ...
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... means : if we admit that Christ was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world ; what memo- rial could be devised more apposite than that of animal sacrifice , exemplifying by the slaying of the victim the death which had been ...
... means : if we admit that Christ was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world ; what memo- rial could be devised more apposite than that of animal sacrifice , exemplifying by the slaying of the victim the death which had been ...
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... means of subsistence- " every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you , even as the green herb have I given you all things : but flesh with the life thereof , which is the blood thereof , shall ye not eat . " And if the life of ...
... means of subsistence- " every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you , even as the green herb have I given you all things : but flesh with the life thereof , which is the blood thereof , shall ye not eat . " And if the life of ...
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... means of rendering it productive : the necessity of that prudential forethought was then unknown , which in the present day operates as a discouragement to early marriage , making it impera- * Ezek . i . 28 . + Rev. iv . 3 . tive upon ...
... means of rendering it productive : the necessity of that prudential forethought was then unknown , which in the present day operates as a discouragement to early marriage , making it impera- * Ezek . i . 28 . + Rev. iv . 3 . tive upon ...
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... means of temporal calamities . Sabeans fell upon his oxen and asses , and took them away , and slew his servants ; the fire of God came down from heaven , and consumed his flocks ; the Chaldeans made out three bands , and carried away ...
... means of temporal calamities . Sabeans fell upon his oxen and asses , and took them away , and slew his servants ; the fire of God came down from heaven , and consumed his flocks ; the Chaldeans made out three bands , and carried away ...
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Page 79 - And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau, thy firstborn ; I have done according as thou badest me, arise I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Page 220 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 36 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 4 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.
Page 261 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, And shall call his name Immanuel.
Page 84 - O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee...
Page 43 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 263 - And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots : " And the Spirit of the Lord s'hall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord...
Page 220 - And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Page 18 - And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.