A Biblical and Theological Dictionary: Explanatory of the History, Manners, and Customs of the Jews, and Neighboring Nations, Volume 1B. Waugh and T. Mason, 1832 - 1003 pages |
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... Greeks sat at the table ; for Homer observes that when Ulysses arrived at the palace of Alcinous , the king dispatched his son Laodamas to seat Ulysses in a magnificent chair . The Egyptians sat at table anciently , as well as the ...
... Greeks sat at the table ; for Homer observes that when Ulysses arrived at the palace of Alcinous , the king dispatched his son Laodamas to seat Ulysses in a magnificent chair . The Egyptians sat at table anciently , as well as the ...
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... Greeks and Romans had many regulations concerning adoption . It does not appear that adoption , properly so called , was formerly in use among the Jews . Moses makes no mention of it in his laws ; and the case of Jacob's two grand- sons ...
... Greeks and Romans had many regulations concerning adoption . It does not appear that adoption , properly so called , was formerly in use among the Jews . Moses makes no mention of it in his laws ; and the case of Jacob's two grand- sons ...
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... Greek Chris learn from the history of Haman and Mordecai , tians to worship with the head uncovered , in the book of ... Greeks called porkuveir , Conon re- two sons , Adrammelech and Sharezer , whilst fused to perform to Artaxerxes ...
... Greek Chris learn from the history of Haman and Mordecai , tians to worship with the head uncovered , in the book of ... Greeks called porkuveir , Conon re- two sons , Adrammelech and Sharezer , whilst fused to perform to Artaxerxes ...
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... Greeks , in the year of the world 2820 , and before Jesus Christ 1884. 3. The voyage undertaken for the purpose of bringing away the golden fleece , in the year of the world 2760. 4. The foundation of Rome , in 2856 . 5. The era of ...
... Greeks , in the year of the world 2820 , and before Jesus Christ 1884. 3. The voyage undertaken for the purpose of bringing away the golden fleece , in the year of the world 2760. 4. The foundation of Rome , in 2856 . 5. The era of ...
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... Greeks was formed . This word signifies , prince , chief , or thousand , expressing , as it were , a leading number . the emblem of Alexander . He was appointed by God to destroy the Persian empire , and to substitute in its room the ...
... Greeks was formed . This word signifies , prince , chief , or thousand , expressing , as it were , a leading number . the emblem of Alexander . He was appointed by God to destroy the Persian empire , and to substitute in its room the ...
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Page 230 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 397 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 288 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 194 - Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began; But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel : Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
Page 20 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 258 - Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds ; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father ; by whom all things were made...
Page 54 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 362 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 129 - Simon, Seest thou this woman ? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet : but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 109 - The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth : in his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.