Oriental customs: or, An illustration of the Sacred scriptures by an explanatory application of the customs and manners of the Eastern nations, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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... fire in which they were finally consumed . " MAURICE'S Indian Antiquities , vol . v . p . 132. See also EUSEBIUS'S Preparation for spreading the Gospel , b . i . p . 29. Eng . edit . No. 603.—iv. 15. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain ...
... fire in which they were finally consumed . " MAURICE'S Indian Antiquities , vol . v . p . 132. See also EUSEBIUS'S Preparation for spreading the Gospel , b . i . p . 29. Eng . edit . No. 603.—iv. 15. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain ...
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... more in Nos . 15. 50. 513 . No. 613. - xix . 24. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire . ] The curious Wormius tells of the raining of brimstone , May 16 , 1646. " Here , at Copenhagen , GENESIS .
... more in Nos . 15. 50. 513 . No. 613. - xix . 24. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire . ] The curious Wormius tells of the raining of brimstone , May 16 , 1646. " Here , at Copenhagen , GENESIS .
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... fire overtook her , and falling upon her , wrapped her body in a sheet of nitro - sulphureous matter , which con- gealed into a crust as hard as stone , and made her appear like a pillar of salt , her body being , as it were , candied ...
... fire overtook her , and falling upon her , wrapped her body in a sheet of nitro - sulphureous matter , which con- gealed into a crust as hard as stone , and made her appear like a pillar of salt , her body being , as it were , candied ...
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... fire . ] The traditionary notion of a miraculous light or fire being the token of a divine presence , prevailed among the Greeks in the time of Homer : for , after relating that the goddess Minerva at- tended on Ulysses with her golden ...
... fire . ] The traditionary notion of a miraculous light or fire being the token of a divine presence , prevailed among the Greeks in the time of Homer : for , after relating that the goddess Minerva at- tended on Ulysses with her golden ...
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... fire . ] The prohibition of eating it raw , for which there might seem to be little occasion , since mankind have generally abhorred such food , is understood by some to have been given in opposition to the barbarous customs of the ...
... fire . ] The prohibition of eating it raw , for which there might seem to be little occasion , since mankind have generally abhorred such food , is understood by some to have been given in opposition to the barbarous customs of the ...
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Página 211 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red ; it is full of mixture ; and he poureth out of the same : but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Página 389 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Página 118 - And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Página 250 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Página 390 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Página 8 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Página 143 - And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem, Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
Página 139 - Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale : for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
Página 329 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Página 11 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?