The Modern Reader's Bible: A Series of Works from the Sacred Scriptures Presented in Modern Literary Form, Volume 7Richard Green Moulton Macmillan, 1899 |
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... Sarah was of beauty so surpassing that a fiend loved her , and caused the death of the seven men who successively had been given her for husbands , strangling each as they entered the bridal chamber . This mysterious doom , we must ...
... Sarah was of beauty so surpassing that a fiend loved her , and caused the death of the seven men who successively had been given her for husbands , strangling each as they entered the bridal chamber . This mysterious doom , we must ...
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... Sarah's first impulse at the cruel suggestion was suicide . But she bethought her how she was an only child , and such a deed would bring down her loved parents with sorrow to the grave . So she also was driven to the prayer of Job ...
... Sarah's first impulse at the cruel suggestion was suicide . But she bethought her how she was an only child , and such a deed would bring down her loved parents with sorrow to the grave . So she also was driven to the prayer of Job ...
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... travel : the terror of Tobias when , as they approach their destination , the mysterious guide announces his purpose to marry the youth to the notori- ous Sarah . Tobias urges against the dangerous honour that xxxii Introduction.
... travel : the terror of Tobias when , as they approach their destination , the mysterious guide announces his purpose to marry the youth to the notori- ous Sarah . Tobias urges against the dangerous honour that xxxii Introduction.
Page xxxiii
... Sarah . Tobias urges against the dangerous honour that he is the only son of his parents . But the guide instructs him how to meet the evil spirit with prayer and the fumes of the fish's heart and liver . Fear not , for she was prepared ...
... Sarah . Tobias urges against the dangerous honour that he is the only son of his parents . But the guide instructs him how to meet the evil spirit with prayer and the fumes of the fish's heart and liver . Fear not , for she was prepared ...
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... Sarah the daughter of Raguel in Ecbatana of Media , that she also was reproached by her father's maidservants ; because that she had been given to seven husbands , and Asmodæus the evil spirit slew them , before they had lain with her ...
... Sarah the daughter of Raguel in Ecbatana of Media , that she also was reproached by her father's maidservants ; because that she had been given to seven husbands , and Asmodæus the evil spirit slew them , before they had lain with her ...
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Page 15 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 119 - The voice of my beloved ! behold he cometh Leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart : Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh forth at the windows, Shewing himself through the lattice.
Page 45 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm : for love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave : the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame...
Page 17 - I will rise now, and go about the city In the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth : I sought him, but I found him not.
Page 41 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field ; Let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, And the pomegranates bud forth: There will I give thee my loves.
Page 31 - His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Page 11 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 46 - SOLOMON had a vineyard at Baal-hamon ; he let out the vineyard unto keepers ; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. MY VINEYARD, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
Page 8 - I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Page 54 - And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab ; And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves : so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.