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... Authorities might be greatly multiplied to show that the Phoenicians spoke a dialect of the Hebrew . The Chaldee , Syriac , and Samaritan are also dialects of the Hebrew , without any con- siderable deviation , or many additional words ...
... Authorities might be greatly multiplied to show that the Phoenicians spoke a dialect of the Hebrew . The Chaldee , Syriac , and Samaritan are also dialects of the Hebrew , without any con- siderable deviation , or many additional words ...
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... authorities dispute their pretensions . With regard to Egypt , more may be said in in- validating its claims to this invention than has been said against those of Phoenicia and Assyria . Is there not a sort of literary mania which has ...
... authorities dispute their pretensions . With regard to Egypt , more may be said in in- validating its claims to this invention than has been said against those of Phoenicia and Assyria . Is there not a sort of literary mania which has ...
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... authority accompanied by greater power than the paternal , became necessary . They tell us , that afterwards , when towns and cities united for their common convenience and defence , the judicial re- gulations necessarily became ...
... authority accompanied by greater power than the paternal , became necessary . They tell us , that afterwards , when towns and cities united for their common convenience and defence , the judicial re- gulations necessarily became ...
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... authority to command and the obligation to obedience , the foundation , or principle , is the happiness of those to whom the rule is directed . " Salus populi suprema lex . " None will doubt that the goodness of all laws depends upon ...
... authority to command and the obligation to obedience , the foundation , or principle , is the happiness of those to whom the rule is directed . " Salus populi suprema lex . " None will doubt that the goodness of all laws depends upon ...
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... authority ; and gave them distinctly to understand , that if they refused to do so , he himself would become the guardian of the poor , the father of the fatherless , the protector of the helpless orphan , the widow's God , and the 80 ...
... authority ; and gave them distinctly to understand , that if they refused to do so , he himself would become the guardian of the poor , the father of the fatherless , the protector of the helpless orphan , the widow's God , and the 80 ...
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Page 315 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 51 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Page 229 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over...
Page 52 - Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect ? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died...
Page 54 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof : an image was before mine eyes ; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God ? shall a man be more pure than his Maker...
Page 392 - Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 186 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me. He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God...
Page 57 - Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 50 - For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor? or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again ? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things : to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Page 95 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...