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... stories , which we have no means of inves- tigating . Miraculous cures and legends , ghost and apparition stories , for instance . 7th . These objections bear more forcibly against tradition from remote ages and ignorant people : for ...
... stories , which we have no means of inves- tigating . Miraculous cures and legends , ghost and apparition stories , for instance . 7th . These objections bear more forcibly against tradition from remote ages and ignorant people : for ...
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... story in his own way ; there is none to check or correct him ; each narrator may forget , may tax his imagin- ation ... story of Aladdin , or of Sinbad the Sailor , in the Arabian Nights ' entertainments are true , because the story ...
... story in his own way ; there is none to check or correct him ; each narrator may forget , may tax his imagin- ation ... story of Aladdin , or of Sinbad the Sailor , in the Arabian Nights ' entertainments are true , because the story ...
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... story : unless the falsehood be a mistake , or ascribable to the ignorance of the times ; like the prodigies in Livy , or the ghosts and apparitions of three centuries ago . 14th . Nor can we ascribe a book to any author , if it con ...
... story : unless the falsehood be a mistake , or ascribable to the ignorance of the times ; like the prodigies in Livy , or the ghosts and apparitions of three centuries ago . 14th . Nor can we ascribe a book to any author , if it con ...
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... story ; to be taken as it is delivered , to- gether ; not piece meal , to suit the particular views of those who apply it . If , as I have urged before , a letter be produced as evidence in a court of justice , the whole letter must be ...
... story ; to be taken as it is delivered , to- gether ; not piece meal , to suit the particular views of those who apply it . If , as I have urged before , a letter be produced as evidence in a court of justice , the whole letter must be ...
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... story is com- plete , and being different in language and manner , they are composed by different persons . Jehovah ... stories contradict each other . In the 26th and 27th verses of the 1st chapter , it is said , So God ( Elohim , the ...
... story is com- plete , and being different in language and manner , they are composed by different persons . Jehovah ... stories contradict each other . In the 26th and 27th verses of the 1st chapter , it is said , So God ( Elohim , the ...
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Page 39 - When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein ; and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are round about me ; thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose : one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, which is not thy brother.
Page 46 - And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Page 72 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 39 - But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses : forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Page 71 - And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Page 46 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab, unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho; and the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Page 35 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength : this is the first commandment.
Page 41 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 39 - And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites : and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 38 - And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.