A gazetteer of the Old and New Testaments: to which is added the natural history of the Bible, Volume 1Edinburgh Printing and Publishing Company, 1838 |
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Page xi
... plain that the Geo- graphy of the New Testament opens up before us a wide and interesting field . When taken in connection with the Geography of the Old Testament , it includes the most famous portions of our globe , and places that are ...
... plain that the Geo- graphy of the New Testament opens up before us a wide and interesting field . When taken in connection with the Geography of the Old Testament , it includes the most famous portions of our globe , and places that are ...
Page xiii
... plain that he would be staggered and perplexed at every step in his progress , and that the result of his read- ing would be altogether erroneous and useless . Hence it is that Classical commentators have been so careful to give ...
... plain that he would be staggered and perplexed at every step in his progress , and that the result of his read- ing would be altogether erroneous and useless . Hence it is that Classical commentators have been so careful to give ...
Page xv
... plain that , before we can understand this passage , we must know something of the place where Abraham at the time was , and of the extent of prospect which that place commanded ; and although we cannot , like Abraham , arise and walk ...
... plain that , before we can understand this passage , we must know something of the place where Abraham at the time was , and of the extent of prospect which that place commanded ; and although we cannot , like Abraham , arise and walk ...
Page xvii
... plain that the Prophetical and Historical passages of Scripture can only be properly understood by a knowledge of Sacred Geography . In re- ference to the Prophetical passages , this knowledge will often help us to dis- tinguish between ...
... plain that the Prophetical and Historical passages of Scripture can only be properly understood by a knowledge of Sacred Geography . In re- ference to the Prophetical passages , this knowledge will often help us to dis- tinguish between ...
Page xviii
... plain that the Moral and Practical parts of Scripture , having a constant reference to the condition and circumstances , the habits and associations , of the inhabitants of Eastern countries , can never be clearly comprehended , nor ...
... plain that the Moral and Practical parts of Scripture , having a constant reference to the condition and circumstances , the habits and associations , of the inhabitants of Eastern countries , can never be clearly comprehended , nor ...
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Page 301 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Page 505 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 422 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever : Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Page 196 - JOHN to the Seven Churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the Seven Spirits which are before his throne ; and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth.
Page 415 - Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 271 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 206 - Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly ; and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
Page 282 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 543 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Page 285 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.