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Pagina 6
... ancient course , and poured their tributary waters into the same capacious channels . The language which the sacred writer employs when he speaks of the Euphrates , seems to confirm this remark . In his description of Paradise , he ...
... ancient course , and poured their tributary waters into the same capacious channels . The language which the sacred writer employs when he speaks of the Euphrates , seems to confirm this remark . In his description of Paradise , he ...
Pagina 9
... ancient and very magnificent edifice , but of what kind he was unable to conjecture . These were probably the remains of the once sumptuous palace of Beth - Eden , whither the kings of Damascus often escaped from the restraints of a ...
... ancient and very magnificent edifice , but of what kind he was unable to conjecture . These were probably the remains of the once sumptuous palace of Beth - Eden , whither the kings of Damascus often escaped from the restraints of a ...
Pagina 10
... ancient and modern geographers . But I shall follow the example of other writers on the subject , and take them in the order of the sacred historian . The first river mentioned by Moses , is the Pison , which , he informs us ...
... ancient and modern geographers . But I shall follow the example of other writers on the subject , and take them in the order of the sacred historian . The first river mentioned by Moses , is the Pison , which , he informs us ...
Pagina 12
... ancient world . But if Havilah was not a district of the country which bore the name of Eden , it certainly lay in its immediate neighbour- hood , and by consequence possessed the same products , and shared in the same trade . This is ...
... ancient world . But if Havilah was not a district of the country which bore the name of Eden , it certainly lay in its immediate neighbour- hood , and by consequence possessed the same products , and shared in the same trade . This is ...
Pagina 15
... ancient and modern geographers , we discover a stream washing , in its course , one side of that celebrated region ; and also communicating with three other rivers by one common channel . We have thus obtained all the marks by which the ...
... ancient and modern geographers , we discover a stream washing , in its course , one side of that celebrated region ; and also communicating with three other rivers by one common channel . We have thus obtained all the marks by which the ...
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Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures: In Three Parts. I. From the ..., Volume 1 George Paxton Volledige weergave - 1822 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 35 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people...
Pagina 41 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Pagina 322 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Pagina 457 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Pagina 24 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Pagina 191 - The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
Pagina 46 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Pagina 217 - Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Pagina 354 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah : their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter : Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Pagina 178 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.