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... plain - dealing reprover . .Edom's whip . ... The prophetical apostle of the Gentiles . ... The wise men's star . .The scourge of Assur . ...... ..The comforter of captives . ..Preparation for sad times . .Zeal for God's house ...
... plain - dealing reprover . .Edom's whip . ... The prophetical apostle of the Gentiles . ... The wise men's star . .The scourge of Assur . ...... ..The comforter of captives . ..Preparation for sad times . .Zeal for God's house ...
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... plain , than that the Mosaic narrative fixes the creation of the material world at a point about six thousand years past . With this conviction , no wonder those who hold it conscientiously should fear the progress of science generally ...
... plain , than that the Mosaic narrative fixes the creation of the material world at a point about six thousand years past . With this conviction , no wonder those who hold it conscientiously should fear the progress of science generally ...
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... plain statement or by implication , and when the facts of geology are all opposed to it , such an assumption cannot be allowed . And what are the lessons this proposition is intended to inculcate ? Unquestionably these : first , we ...
... plain statement or by implication , and when the facts of geology are all opposed to it , such an assumption cannot be allowed . And what are the lessons this proposition is intended to inculcate ? Unquestionably these : first , we ...
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... plains , the sun rolling above them and their herds was the great phenomenon of exist- ence . Accordingly , their deity was Indra , the sun- god . Penetrating in straggling groups through the gorges of the Himalaya , they by and by de ...
... plains , the sun rolling above them and their herds was the great phenomenon of exist- ence . Accordingly , their deity was Indra , the sun- god . Penetrating in straggling groups through the gorges of the Himalaya , they by and by de ...
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... plain of Shinar has been reclaimed from an uncertain topography , and As- syrian civilisation restored from an oblivious inter- ment . Mr Layard was travelling in Mesopotamia in 1839 , and , like every intelligent traveller , was struck ...
... plain of Shinar has been reclaimed from an uncertain topography , and As- syrian civilisation restored from an oblivious inter- ment . Mr Layard was travelling in Mesopotamia in 1839 , and , like every intelligent traveller , was struck ...
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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?