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... circumstance in the situation of Egypt , which seems to assert its claim to a priority amongst the civil- ized nations ; and consequently to its eldership in arts and arms . There is no soil on the face of the globe so fertile , but ...
... circumstance in the situation of Egypt , which seems to assert its claim to a priority amongst the civil- ized nations ; and consequently to its eldership in arts and arms . There is no soil on the face of the globe so fertile , but ...
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... circumstance of conformity between the Greek historians and MOSES , is in their accounts of the RELIGIOUS RITES of Egypt . Herodotus expressly tells us , that the Egyptians esteemed it a profanation , to sacrifice any kind of cattle ...
... circumstance of conformity between the Greek historians and MOSES , is in their accounts of the RELIGIOUS RITES of Egypt . Herodotus expressly tells us , that the Egyptians esteemed it a profanation , to sacrifice any kind of cattle ...
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... circumstance for which the Egyptian nation was pecu- liarly distinguished , not only by the earliest Greek writers ( as we shall see hereafter ) , but likewise by the holy prophets . There is a remarkable passage in Jeremiah , where ...
... circumstance for which the Egyptian nation was pecu- liarly distinguished , not only by the earliest Greek writers ( as we shall see hereafter ) , but likewise by the holy prophets . There is a remarkable passage in Jeremiah , where ...
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... circumstance which hath attended medicine through all its stages ; and shall be accounted for in the progress of this inquiry . But their office of embalming is likewise much insisted on : for this being part of the Egyptian funeral ...
... circumstance which hath attended medicine through all its stages ; and shall be accounted for in the progress of this inquiry . But their office of embalming is likewise much insisted on : for this being part of the Egyptian funeral ...
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... circumstances of mourning and embalming . In this last he seems to vary in one particular : They then anoint the whole ... circumstance of embalming , scripture history confirms and explains : and not only so , but reconciles the seem ...
... circumstances of mourning and embalming . In this last he seems to vary in one particular : They then anoint the whole ... circumstance of embalming , scripture history confirms and explains : and not only so , but reconciles the seem ...
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Page 59 - I shall see him, but not n'ow; I shall behold him, but not nigh; There shall come a Star out of Jacob, And a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite the corners of Moab, And destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 666 - WHEN the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place: and suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them: and they were all filled with the HOLY GHOST; and began to speak with other tongues, as the SPIRIT gave them utterance.
Page 412 - The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan ; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee : is not this a brand plucked out of the fire 1 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
Page 645 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 498 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Page 427 - Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Page 638 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 518 - In those days they shall say no more, "The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge." But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Page 444 - But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him; and his righteousness unto children's children ; to such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Page 309 - And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.