Representative Women: From Eve, the Wife of the First, to Mary, the Mother of the Second Adam |
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... noble , whose brow was crowned with honor and glory , as the lord of this lower world ; he had a God - breathed soul , with faculties and endowments , upon which , was enstamped the moral image of his Creator . Thus , he stood in the ...
... noble , whose brow was crowned with honor and glory , as the lord of this lower world ; he had a God - breathed soul , with faculties and endowments , upon which , was enstamped the moral image of his Creator . Thus , he stood in the ...
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... noble manhood , looking back , saw the peril to which his boyhood had been exposed - think ye not , he thanked from his inmost heart , that fond but firm , loving yet decided mother -- whose watchfulness saw that peril , and whose ...
... noble manhood , looking back , saw the peril to which his boyhood had been exposed - think ye not , he thanked from his inmost heart , that fond but firm , loving yet decided mother -- whose watchfulness saw that peril , and whose ...
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... noble pair journey into Egypt , we hear Abra- ham saying to Sarah- " Behold , I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon ; " and for fear of dan- ger to himself , on her account , he stooped to pre- varication telling her to say ...
... noble pair journey into Egypt , we hear Abra- ham saying to Sarah- " Behold , I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon ; " and for fear of dan- ger to himself , on her account , he stooped to pre- varication telling her to say ...
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... noble truth , trite though it be , that " beauty un- adorned is adorned the most ; " and therefore al- lows vanity and selfishness to run riot with her bet- ter nature ; strives for general admiration ; is hap- py only when surrounded ...
... noble truth , trite though it be , that " beauty un- adorned is adorned the most ; " and therefore al- lows vanity and selfishness to run riot with her bet- ter nature ; strives for general admiration ; is hap- py only when surrounded ...
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... noble man . She lived to see how wrong she had done , in distrusting the pro- mise of a covenant - fulfilling God , and have her own piety deepened by experience , until after a century and quarter had passed by her , she stood on the ...
... noble man . She lived to see how wrong she had done , in distrusting the pro- mise of a covenant - fulfilling God , and have her own piety deepened by experience , until after a century and quarter had passed by her , she stood on the ...
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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.