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... CHURCH IN THE CATACOMBS 175 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE 195 THE AGRICULTURE OF THE BIBLE : - A glance at its History 209 Comparison with Modern Agriculture 215 The Implements of Tillage 226 The Work of Tillage 236 The Fallow Year 247 ...
... CHURCH IN THE CATACOMBS 175 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE 195 THE AGRICULTURE OF THE BIBLE : - A glance at its History 209 Comparison with Modern Agriculture 215 The Implements of Tillage 226 The Work of Tillage 236 The Fallow Year 247 ...
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... Church . The translator is not known .. The version which is now called the Vulgate was formed by St Jerome at the command of Pope Damasus , A.D. 384. Je- rome appears to have formed his text in general out of a great number of Latin ...
... Church . The translator is not known .. The version which is now called the Vulgate was formed by St Jerome at the command of Pope Damasus , A.D. 384. Je- rome appears to have formed his text in general out of a great number of Latin ...
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... churches , and encourage the people to read them . In the reign of Edward VI . , Fuller mentions another translation of the Bible , printed in two editions , the first in 1549 , the other in 1551 ; neither of them was divided into ...
... churches , and encourage the people to read them . In the reign of Edward VI . , Fuller mentions another translation of the Bible , printed in two editions , the first in 1549 , the other in 1551 ; neither of them was divided into ...
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... church , commonly called the Bishop's Bible , to be followed , and as little altered as the original will permit . 2. The names of the prophets , and the holy writers , with their other names in the text , to be retained as near as may ...
... church , commonly called the Bishop's Bible , to be followed , and as little altered as the original will permit . 2. The names of the prophets , and the holy writers , with their other names in the text , to be retained as near as may ...
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... church and state reformation . Esther ....... ............... The great example of God's Providence . .The school of patience . Job ..... Psalms ......... The soul's soliloquies , the little Bible , the ana- tomy of conscience , the ...
... church and state reformation . Esther ....... ............... The great example of God's Providence . .The school of patience . Job ..... Psalms ......... The soul's soliloquies , the little Bible , the ana- tomy of conscience , the ...
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Page 31 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 251 - But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Page 203 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Page 7 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Page 28 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 250 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 244 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 268 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 31 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?