Oriental Observations and Occasional Criticisms: More Or Less Illustrating Several Hundred Passages of ScriptureHoldsworth, 1827 - 92 pages |
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... behold , there came up out of the river seven well - favoured kine , and fat - fleshed ; and they fed in a meadow . What Mr. Jowett remarks on this passage , in his Travels in Egypt , may be daily observed in Ceylon . Companies of ...
... behold , there came up out of the river seven well - favoured kine , and fat - fleshed ; and they fed in a meadow . What Mr. Jowett remarks on this passage , in his Travels in Egypt , may be daily observed in Ceylon . Companies of ...
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... behold , they be rent . See also Matthew , ix . 17 . Job , xxxii . 19. Psalm , cxix . 83 . These passages denote nothing like glass bottles , but skins prepared to answer the same purpose . They were of various sizes , according to the ...
... behold , they be rent . See also Matthew , ix . 17 . Job , xxxii . 19. Psalm , cxix . 83 . These passages denote nothing like glass bottles , but skins prepared to answer the same purpose . They were of various sizes , according to the ...
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... Behold I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver ; that will I give to the man of God , to tell us our way . See also Genesis , xliii . 11 ; and Judges , iii . 17 , 18 . Presents are essential to intercourse between ...
... Behold I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver ; that will I give to the man of God , to tell us our way . See also Genesis , xliii . 11 ; and Judges , iii . 17 , 18 . Presents are essential to intercourse between ...
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... behold , there was an image in the bed , with a pillow of goat's hair for his bolster . With several respectable authorities , I am inclined to think the article described as a bolster , was in fact a curtain suspended to guard the ...
... behold , there was an image in the bed , with a pillow of goat's hair for his bolster . With several respectable authorities , I am inclined to think the article described as a bolster , was in fact a curtain suspended to guard the ...
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... Behold , thou shalt see in that day , when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself . See also 1 Kings , xx . 30 ; and Judges , xv . 1 . Imagine a long gallery , or a large hall , into which the doors of cells open ...
... Behold , thou shalt see in that day , when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself . See also 1 Kings , xx . 30 ; and Judges , xv . 1 . Imagine a long gallery , or a large hall , into which the doors of cells open ...
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