A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Canonical Scriptures of the Old Testatment, Volume 1

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C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1843 - Bible

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Page 54 - Beveridge places them at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third century.
Page 23 - Amram to Moses ; Moses to Joshua ; Joshua to the Elders ; the Elders to the Prophets ; the Prophets to the Wise Men ; and then from one to the other down to Solomon. The sign of distress is very little different from that of the Freemasons.
Page 52 - Origen, who lived at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century...
Page 45 - Jesus which he spake, teaching gentleness and long-suffering : for thus he said :* ' Be ye merciful, that ye may obtain mercy ; forgive, that it may be forgiven unto you ; as you do, so shall it be done unto you ; as you give, so shall it be given unto you ; as ye judge, so shall ye be judged ; as ye show kindness, so shall kindness be shown unto you : with what measure ye mete, with the same shall it be measured to you.
Page 296 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Page 52 - ... somewhat more explicitly, to the evidences of which we are still in possession, and which positively evince its genuineness, — it being understood that these evidences, although extensively applicable to the disputed books, and particularly to the Apocalypse, bear, with a preeminent degree of force, on the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the thirteen Epistles of Paul,* and the first Epistles of John and Peter.
Page 110 - Si quis autem libros ipsos integros cum omnibus suis partibus, prout in Ecclesia Catholica legi consueverunt, et in veteri vulgata Latina editione habentur, pro sacris et canonicis non susceperit; et traditiones praedictas sciens et prudens contempserit; anathema sit.
Page 38 - I have also taken a great deal of pains to obtain the learning of the Greeks, and understand the elements of the Greek language, although I have so long accustomed myself to speak our own tongue, that I cannot pronounce Greek with sufficient exactness; for our nation does not encourage those that learn the languages of many nations...
Page 195 - Hamadani, who flourished towards the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century...
Page 325 - There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth, and the third is no nation: they that sit upon the mountain of Samaria, and they that dwell among the Philistines, and that foolish people that dwell in Sichem.

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