A short history of the ancient Israelites, enlarged from the Apparatus biblicus of père Lamy, and corrected and improved throughout by A. Clarke [from the tr. by T. Bedford].1802 |
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... appear much poorer and less polished , though at that time very popu- lous ; and still the further we ascend , it will seem more wretched and uncultivated . Na- tions have their periods of duration , like parti- cular men . The most ...
... appear much poorer and less polished , though at that time very popu- lous ; and still the further we ascend , it will seem more wretched and uncultivated . Na- tions have their periods of duration , like parti- cular men . The most ...
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... appear so barba- rous to us for want of understanding the He- brew tongue . Are they not full as significant as those of castles and towns which our nobility assume ? The Greek names , whose sound we are so fond of , are of the same ...
... appear so barba- rous to us for want of understanding the He- brew tongue . Are they not full as significant as those of castles and towns which our nobility assume ? The Greek names , whose sound we are so fond of , are of the same ...
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... appear that they had great num- ber of slaves , neither had they occasion for them , being so industrious and numerous in so small a country . They chose rather to make their chil- dren work , whom they were obliged to main- tain : who ...
... appear that they had great num- ber of slaves , neither had they occasion for them , being so industrious and numerous in so small a country . They chose rather to make their chil- dren work , whom they were obliged to main- tain : who ...
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... appear that they had any to succeed them , nor that any of the Israelites were artificers by profession , and worked for the public , till the time of the kings . When Saul began to reign , it is taken notice of , that there was no ...
... appear that they had any to succeed them , nor that any of the Israelites were artificers by profession , and worked for the public , till the time of the kings . When Saul began to reign , it is taken notice of , that there was no ...
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... appear that many would have been of ho use to them . Their plain way of living , and the mildness of the climate , made that long train of conveniences unnecessary , which we think it hard to be without , though vanity and effeminacy ...
... appear that many would have been of ho use to them . Their plain way of living , and the mildness of the climate , made that long train of conveniences unnecessary , which we think it hard to be without , though vanity and effeminacy ...
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Page 219 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 231 - But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Page 143 - And the Lord said unto Moses, " Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Page 242 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die : it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations : And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean...
Page 219 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life.
Page 220 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 179 - Then did they till their ground in peace, and the earth gave her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit The ancient men sat all in the streets, communing together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.
Page 185 - I more : circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews ; as touching the law, a Pharisee ; concerning zeal, persecuting the church ; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Page 139 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us.
Page 259 - And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold : six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.