Representative Women: From Eve, the Wife of the First, to Mary, the Mother of the Second Adam |
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... Jacob ; " we feel , I say , that a woman who sustained the re- lation of wife to such a man , and whose influence over him was so great , must have possessed a cha- racter worthy of our attention . 66 her . 66 The second fact is , the ...
... Jacob ; " we feel , I say , that a woman who sustained the re- lation of wife to such a man , and whose influence over him was so great , must have possessed a cha- racter worthy of our attention . 66 her . 66 The second fact is , the ...
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... Jacob the twelve tribes of Israel . The boys grew to manhood . Esau was a hunter , a man of the field ; Jacob a plain man , dwelling in tents . The birth - right was in Esau . By a shrewd manoeuvre , Jacob obtained it from him ...
... Jacob the twelve tribes of Israel . The boys grew to manhood . Esau was a hunter , a man of the field ; Jacob a plain man , dwelling in tents . The birth - right was in Esau . By a shrewd manoeuvre , Jacob obtained it from him ...
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... Jacob , embittered the last days of the patriarch , broke up the family , and the sun of Re- becca's life set in ... Jacob . True , her husband was guilty of a similar partiality to Esau ; true , Jacob was a handsomer boy than his ...
... Jacob , embittered the last days of the patriarch , broke up the family , and the sun of Re- becca's life set in ... Jacob . True , her husband was guilty of a similar partiality to Esau ; true , Jacob was a handsomer boy than his ...
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... Jacob , and made Esau , who was constitutionally generous , what , per- chance , he otherwise never would have been . The second bad trait of character she developed , was presumption in reference to the promise of God . Remember God ...
... Jacob , and made Esau , who was constitutionally generous , what , per- chance , he otherwise never would have been . The second bad trait of character she developed , was presumption in reference to the promise of God . Remember God ...
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... Jacob should rule over Esau in all things she presumed to tamper with the pro- mise , and tried , by means which God abhorred , to work out , in her own time and in her own way , all the good her ambitious heart desired for her favorite ...
... Jacob should rule over Esau in all things she presumed to tamper with the pro- mise , and tried , by means which God abhorred , to work out , in her own time and in her own way , all the good her ambitious heart desired for her favorite ...
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Page 161 - For this child I prayed ; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him : therefore also I have lent him to the Lord ; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord.
Page 331 - Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works ? Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us?
Page 167 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page 21 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Page 79 - My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Page 66 - And when she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
Page 21 - The world was sad! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled...
Page 179 - And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Page 203 - The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is." "And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept ; and as he went, thus he said, 0 my son Absalom ! my son, my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son!
Page 141 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.