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... Jerusalem or Damascus . It is not easy for the western mind to get the point of view of the orient . The eastern mind was so large , so vague , it covered so much emotion , it had such gift of imagination . brooded and dreamed and often ...
... Jerusalem or Damascus . It is not easy for the western mind to get the point of view of the orient . The eastern mind was so large , so vague , it covered so much emotion , it had such gift of imagination . brooded and dreamed and often ...
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... Jerusalem was a splen- did robber fortress from which tribute was levied upon surrounding peoples . The Hebrews had more than their share . Religious institutions bulk large as a social influ- ence among the Hebrews , and this is the ...
... Jerusalem was a splen- did robber fortress from which tribute was levied upon surrounding peoples . The Hebrews had more than their share . Religious institutions bulk large as a social influ- ence among the Hebrews , and this is the ...
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... Jerusalem were from two thou- sand five hundred feet to three thousand feet . There are a good many springs in various parts of the country , some forty within twenty miles of Jerusalem , with some hot springs in the Jordan valley . On ...
... Jerusalem were from two thou- sand five hundred feet to three thousand feet . There are a good many springs in various parts of the country , some forty within twenty miles of Jerusalem , with some hot springs in the Jordan valley . On ...
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... Jerusalem , surrounded by hills and easily defended , was an ideal fortress for a small but warlike nation . When this country began to be inhabited it is not possible to decide . It is enough to know that neither the native dates nor ...
... Jerusalem , surrounded by hills and easily defended , was an ideal fortress for a small but warlike nation . When this country began to be inhabited it is not possible to decide . It is enough to know that neither the native dates nor ...
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... Jerusalem . It was the content of the religious experience of the Hebrew that made him a chosen and a peculiar people . It was his pathetic and age - long struggle after God , a struggle unique among the nations of the earth . When the ...
... Jerusalem . It was the content of the religious experience of the Hebrew that made him a chosen and a peculiar people . It was his pathetic and age - long struggle after God , a struggle unique among the nations of the earth . When the ...
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Page 67 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 178 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains : and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Page 150 - What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear ? And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites : for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God ; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Page 116 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Page 178 - If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high.
Page 104 - When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 161 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 72 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 181 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Page 195 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.