An Epitome of General Ecclesiastical History: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. With an Appendix, Giving a Condensed History of the Jews from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present Day. Illustrated with Maps and Engravings |
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Page 41
Forty years long , " said God , “ was I grieved with this generation . ” And though
he did not destroy them utterly , he sometimes caused them to feel the power of
his indignation . At one time three and twenty thousand were de . stroyed in a day
.
Forty years long , " said God , “ was I grieved with this generation . ” And though
he did not destroy them utterly , he sometimes caused them to feel the power of
his indignation . At one time three and twenty thousand were de . stroyed in a day
.
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55 most offensive to God , and injurious to his own soul , and has been the sport
of thousands of mockers and scoffers from that day to this . His heart too was
greatly hardened . No man dared directly tell him his sin . Nathan declared it by a
...
55 most offensive to God , and injurious to his own soul , and has been the sport
of thousands of mockers and scoffers from that day to this . His heart too was
greatly hardened . No man dared directly tell him his sin . Nathan declared it by a
...
Page 70
Thousand thousands ministered unto him , and ten thousand times ten thousand
stood before him ; the judgment was set and the books were opened . ” Besides
these , Daniel had other visions of the events of nations which have long since ...
Thousand thousands ministered unto him , and ten thousand times ten thousand
stood before him ; the judgment was set and the books were opened . ” Besides
these , Daniel had other visions of the events of nations which have long since ...
Page 85
COMPLETION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT . 85 one hundred thousand of the
inhabitants with him into Egypt . Their firm character and sacred regard to their
oath attracted his favour , and he placed many of them in stations of power and
trust .
COMPLETION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT . 85 one hundred thousand of the
inhabitants with him into Egypt . Their firm character and sacred regard to their
oath attracted his favour , and he placed many of them in stations of power and
trust .
Page 95
He continued at the head of the nation seventeen years , when he and his
children and about a thousand of his guards were treacherously assassinated by
Tryphon , a Syrian usurper , in the city of Ptolemais , 144 B . C . But two years was
he ...
He continued at the head of the nation seventeen years , when he and his
children and about a thousand of his guards were treacherously assassinated by
Tryphon , a Syrian usurper , in the city of Ptolemais , 144 B . C . But two years was
he ...
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Page 19 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 134 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 34 - Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 70 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Page 37 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 15 - But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 31 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor : and they served other gods.
Page 72 - Who is there among you of all his people ? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Page 107 - But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither : notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee : 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 70 - I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots : and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
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| Title | An Epitome of General Ecclesiastical History: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. With an Appendix, Giving a Condensed History of the Jews from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present Day. Illustrated with Maps and Engravings HeinOnline: Religion and the law |
| Author | John Marsh |
| Illustrated by | John Marsh |
| Publisher | Vanderpool & Cole, 1827 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 452 pages |
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