Esther: The Hebrew-Persian QueenH.H. Bancroft & Company, 1859 - 353 pages |
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Page vii
... duty and acquiring the graces which fit her for her high mission in the world . Woman's calling and rights are much talked of in our day , but I am fully persuaded that it is from the Bible , and not from new platforms , that we are to ...
... duty and acquiring the graces which fit her for her high mission in the world . Woman's calling and rights are much talked of in our day , but I am fully persuaded that it is from the Bible , and not from new platforms , that we are to ...
Page xii
... duty - Duty is always ours - Efficacy of prayer - Our advantages over the queen - The design of affliction - The great resolve for the sinner ........................ . CHAPTER XIII . THE BANQUET AND THE SLEEPLESS KING . 179 .... 191 ...
... duty - Duty is always ours - Efficacy of prayer - Our advantages over the queen - The design of affliction - The great resolve for the sinner ........................ . CHAPTER XIII . THE BANQUET AND THE SLEEPLESS KING . 179 .... 191 ...
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... duty to be regard- ed Exceptions only prove the general rule The fire unquenchable is within the soul - Inventors of instruments of death destroyed by them — The great Remedy ........... xiii 223 239 ..255 CHAPTER XVII . THE COUNTER ...
... duty to be regard- ed Exceptions only prove the general rule The fire unquenchable is within the soul - Inventors of instruments of death destroyed by them — The great Remedy ........... xiii 223 239 ..255 CHAPTER XVII . THE COUNTER ...
Page xvii
... duty of an expositor of the Word of God , to go through it selecting only " the berries and leaving the rest as fit only for the pruning hook ; " but to take all the Scriptures together and just as they are , and to explain Scripture by ...
... duty of an expositor of the Word of God , to go through it selecting only " the berries and leaving the rest as fit only for the pruning hook ; " but to take all the Scriptures together and just as they are , and to explain Scripture by ...
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... pages are not the result of undisturbed literary leisure . Very far from it . They have been written under the pressure of arduous pastoral duties- INTRODUCTION . xxi under the weight of the anxious soul XX INTRODUCTION .
... pages are not the result of undisturbed literary leisure . Very far from it . They have been written under the pressure of arduous pastoral duties- INTRODUCTION . xxi under the weight of the anxious soul XX INTRODUCTION .
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according Adar Agagite ancient Babylon banquet beautiful believe Bible Book of Esther chamberlains chapter Christ Christians Chronicles Church court crown crown royal custom Cyrus Daniel death decree deliverance destroy Divine duty earth enemies Esther the queen Ethiopia evil faith father favor fear friends gallows give glory God's gold golden sceptre Greek Haman Hammedatha hand hanged happy harem Hatach head heart Hebrew Herodotus Holy honor hundred Jesus Jews Josephus king Ahasuerus king's commandment king's gate king's house kingdom laws live Lord mind Mordecai Moses mother nations never passions perish Persian empire Persian kings prayer princes principle proof provinces Purim records religion Romans royal sacred says Scriptures Septuagint Shushan Shushan the palace Susa Targum thee things thou thousand throne tion tomb true truth unto Esther unto the king Vashti wicked wife wine wives women word wrath writings Xenophon Xerxes Zeresh
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Page 48 - Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Page 314 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Page 54 - Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
Page 302 - His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Page 329 - The men of grace have found Glory begun below; Celestial fruits on earthly ground From faith and hope may grow. 4 The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets Before we reach the heavenly fields, Or walk the golden streets.
Page 46 - In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
Page 253 - I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 50 - Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife. And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
Page 314 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 54 - Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey...