Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations and Especially the Jews Therein Alluded to : Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Bind 2William W. Woodward, 1807 |
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... altar of God brought of the firstlings of his flock . The Jews , whose religious customs are , in many respects , similar to the Hindoos , in every age and period of their empire , invio- lably consecrated to heaven , the first - fruits ...
... altar of God brought of the firstlings of his flock . The Jews , whose religious customs are , in many respects , similar to the Hindoos , in every age and period of their empire , invio- lably consecrated to heaven , the first - fruits ...
Side 3
... altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him . ] The patriarchs took care to preserve the memory of considerable events by set- ting up altars and pillars , and other lasting monuments GENESIS . 3.
... altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him . ] The patriarchs took care to preserve the memory of considerable events by set- ting up altars and pillars , and other lasting monuments GENESIS . 3.
Side 4
... altars and pillars , and other lasting monuments . Thus Abraham erected monuments in divers places where God had appeared to him . Gen. xiii . 18. Jacob conse- crated the stone which served him for a pillow while he had the mysterious ...
... altars and pillars , and other lasting monuments . Thus Abraham erected monuments in divers places where God had appeared to him . Gen. xiii . 18. Jacob conse- crated the stone which served him for a pillow while he had the mysterious ...
Side 40
... altar , at which he had just been sacrificing , to the boundaries of the Spartan territory , where , sacrificing again , and then proceeding , a fire , kind- led likewise from this latter sacrifice , goes before him , without ever being ...
... altar , at which he had just been sacrificing , to the boundaries of the Spartan territory , where , sacrificing again , and then proceeding , a fire , kind- led likewise from this latter sacrifice , goes before him , without ever being ...
Side 42
... altar was in other places . This was as much as our laying the hand on the Bible , a princi- pal external character of an oath : whence Juvenal ( Sat. xiii . 89. ) says , atheists do intrepidos altaria tangere , touch the altars boldly ...
... altar was in other places . This was as much as our laying the hand on the Bible , a princi- pal external character of an oath : whence Juvenal ( Sat. xiii . 89. ) says , atheists do intrepidos altaria tangere , touch the altars boldly ...
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Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Bind 2 Samuel Burder Ingen forhåndsvisning - 1807 |
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Side 214 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Side 304 - Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
Side 209 - Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Side 387 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Side 31 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Side 388 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Side 304 - The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Side 137 - Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale : for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
Side 11 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Side 327 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.