The Journal of Sacred Literature, Volume 1John Kitto C. Cox, 1848 - Bible |
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... regards the group of Syro - Arabian languages . No large portion of our space can indeed be allotted to it : but it is hoped that , by means of translations and analogical inquiries , it may be made interesting even to those who are ...
... regards the group of Syro - Arabian languages . No large portion of our space can indeed be allotted to it : but it is hoped that , by means of translations and analogical inquiries , it may be made interesting even to those who are ...
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... regards upon this mere speck in the universe . He urges that all these representations are suitable only to an age , when the scanty state of human knowledge , assisted by man's natural self - love , induced him to conceive of this ...
... regards upon this mere speck in the universe . He urges that all these representations are suitable only to an age , when the scanty state of human knowledge , assisted by man's natural self - love , induced him to conceive of this ...
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... regards such scriptural representations with the same feelings of pity and forbearance with which we may imagine Socrates or Cicero to have contemplated the popular belief of their countrymen , which fixed the abode of the gods on the ...
... regards such scriptural representations with the same feelings of pity and forbearance with which we may imagine Socrates or Cicero to have contemplated the popular belief of their countrymen , which fixed the abode of the gods on the ...
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... regard to which the words ascent and descent have no meaning . He applies the same conviction to every other world within his observation . He transfers it to his imagined survey from the most distant star within reach of the telescope ...
... regard to which the words ascent and descent have no meaning . He applies the same conviction to every other world within his observation . He transfers it to his imagined survey from the most distant star within reach of the telescope ...
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... regards them with a suspicious eye , has overshot its mark , and has fallen into an error alike degrading to its pretensions , and destructive of its proper office . It will also follow that in the very moment when philosophy plumes ...
... regards them with a suspicious eye , has overshot its mark , and has fallen into an error alike degrading to its pretensions , and destructive of its proper office . It will also follow that in the very moment when philosophy plumes ...
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Page 121 - And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Page 248 - So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate ; As if predestination over-ruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge : they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I : if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all, Both what they judge and what they choose...
Page 247 - I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page 135 - And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, "Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue. "And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them, and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes.
Page 128 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 243 - O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
Page 112 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; And many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 180 - And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
Page 248 - To whom thus Adam fervently replied : — "O Woman, best are all things as the will Of God ordained them; his creating hand Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created — much less Man, Or aught that might his happy state secure, Secure from outward force. Within himself The danger lies, yet lies within his power; Against his will he can receive no harm.
Page 384 - My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.