The Modern Review, Volume 5J. Clarke & Company, 1884 - Religion |
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... give practical shape to the higher teaching spreading among the prophets - Elijah and Elisha led the contest for Yahveh against the Baal , but they directed no polemic against the calves of Yahveh or the high - places - and may be taken ...
... give practical shape to the higher teaching spreading among the prophets - Elijah and Elisha led the contest for Yahveh against the Baal , but they directed no polemic against the calves of Yahveh or the high - places - and may be taken ...
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... give it actual being . When Yahveh shall have removed men afar off , and the deserted space shall be large in the midst of the land , should there yet be a tenth , this again shall be exterminated , as the terebinth and the oak , of ...
... give it actual being . When Yahveh shall have removed men afar off , and the deserted space shall be large in the midst of the land , should there yet be a tenth , this again shall be exterminated , as the terebinth and the oak , of ...
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... . - xlviii . ) Its dominant purpose is to give practical effect to the idea of Israel's holiness as the peculiar people of Yahveh , to secure the establishment of the true religion 22 THROUGH THE PROPHETS TO THE LAW .
... . - xlviii . ) Its dominant purpose is to give practical effect to the idea of Israel's holiness as the peculiar people of Yahveh , to secure the establishment of the true religion 22 THROUGH THE PROPHETS TO THE LAW .
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... give expression to that solemn relation of holiness in which the people stood to Yahveh . The Deuteronomic law had been insufficient , for it belonged to a state of things already long past ; it did not deal with a number of elements ...
... give expression to that solemn relation of holiness in which the people stood to Yahveh . The Deuteronomic law had been insufficient , for it belonged to a state of things already long past ; it did not deal with a number of elements ...
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... give them a place in his new evangelical Church . His justification by faith alone and his serfdom of the human will were to them unintelligible doctrines ; nay , the rapid spread of this simple - minded faith threatened to destroy the ...
... give them a place in his new evangelical Church . His justification by faith alone and his serfdom of the human will were to them unintelligible doctrines ; nay , the rapid spread of this simple - minded faith threatened to destroy the ...
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Page 275 - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul.
Page 327 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak...
Page 188 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 291 - God with man no more has been revealed to the nineteenth century than to the first, or to London than to the wildest parish in the Hebrides.
Page 9 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 15 - Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine : And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Page 236 - For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them , and not pull them down ; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord : and they shall be my people, and I will be their God : for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Page 657 - In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer.
Page 416 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Page 292 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all.