Memoir of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, etc. [With a portrait.]Crocker & Brewster, 1828 - 437 pages |
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... Arabs - Arrival at Nazareth - Cana - Ti- berias Face of the country - Final return to Bey- root -- Letter to a Theological student - Advice to a niece - Short excursion to Hadet - Arabic school- Letter to the Society of Inquiry on ...
... Arabs - Arrival at Nazareth - Cana - Ti- berias Face of the country - Final return to Bey- root -- Letter to a Theological student - Advice to a niece - Short excursion to Hadet - Arabic school- Letter to the Society of Inquiry on ...
Page 189
... Arabic , together with an Arabic Bible given them by Mr. Jowett . To these I added a Psalter and some Tracts in Arabic . prayers are performed in the church , first in Coptic , and then in Arabic . The Coptic is not understood even by ...
... Arabic , together with an Arabic Bible given them by Mr. Jowett . To these I added a Psalter and some Tracts in Arabic . prayers are performed in the church , first in Coptic , and then in Arabic . The Coptic is not understood even by ...
Page 190
... Arabic , and they are acquainted with no other language , this conversation was carried on by an interpreter . " Of Greeks , I believe there are not above fifty or sixty families in the city . Under the government of the present pasha ...
... Arabic , and they are acquainted with no other language , this conversation was carried on by an interpreter . " Of Greeks , I believe there are not above fifty or sixty families in the city . Under the government of the present pasha ...
Page 192
... Arabic ; they read Hebrew , but understand very little of it ; and are exceedingly ignorant , barbarous , and superstitious . I then said , ' Are they still waiting for the Messiah ? ' He replied , ' Yes ; but they care very little ...
... Arabic ; they read Hebrew , but understand very little of it ; and are exceedingly ignorant , barbarous , and superstitious . I then said , ' Are they still waiting for the Messiah ? ' He replied , ' Yes ; but they care very little ...
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... Arabs . It has given me great satisfaction to be able to preach the Gospel , argue from the Scriptures , and circulate the written word of God , in this city , where some of the most eminent primitive Christians lived . " In March ...
... Arabs . It has given me great satisfaction to be able to preach the Gospel , argue from the Scriptures , and circulate the written word of God , in this city , where some of the most eminent primitive Christians lived . " In March ...
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Arabic Armenian arrived attention Bedouins Beyroot Bible bless brethren brother Cairo called Catholic Christ Christian church consul convent conversation Coptic Copts dear death dervish devoted divine duty earth Egypt engaged English faith father favorable feel feet Fisk friends gave give glory Gospel Greek half past happy heart heathen heaven hill Holy hope inhabitants inquired Jaffa gate Jerusalem Jesus Jews journey King kohen labors letter live lodgings Lord Mallem Malta Maronite mind mission missionary morning mosque Mount Lebanon mountains Mussulmans pasha passed Pergamos persons piety plain pray prayer preach priests received religion religious respecting Sabbath Saviour Scriptures seems Seminary sins Smyrna Society soon soul spirit Syria temple Testament thing thou Tiberias tion told tomb took town Tracts travellers Turkish Turks village wall wish Wolff Zion