Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations and Especially the Jews Therein Alluded to : Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Band 2William W. Woodward, 1807 |
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... occasion : but these are sufficient to shew the great antiquity of this opinion . And it is possible that old experience may in some cases attain to something like prophecy and divination . In some instances also God may have been ...
... occasion : but these are sufficient to shew the great antiquity of this opinion . And it is possible that old experience may in some cases attain to something like prophecy and divination . In some instances also God may have been ...
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... occasion for straw in making bricks , as they put thin layers of straw between them , without which they would , as they dried , run or adhere together . Macartney's Emb . p . 269 . No. 667. - vii . 18. The Egyptians shall loath to ...
... occasion for straw in making bricks , as they put thin layers of straw between them , without which they would , as they dried , run or adhere together . Macartney's Emb . p . 269 . No. 667. - vii . 18. The Egyptians shall loath to ...
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... occasion , since mankind have generally abhorred such food , is understood by some to have been given in opposition to the barbarous customs of the heathens , who in their feasts of Bacchus , which , according to Herodotus and Plutarch ...
... occasion , since mankind have generally abhorred such food , is understood by some to have been given in opposition to the barbarous customs of the heathens , who in their feasts of Bacchus , which , according to Herodotus and Plutarch ...
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... occasion to grave any image upon them . Such altars , Tertullian observes ( Apolog . c . 25. ) were among the ancient Romans in the days of Numa ; when , as they had no sumptuous temples , nor images , so they had only temeraria de ...
... occasion to grave any image upon them . Such altars , Tertullian observes ( Apolog . c . 25. ) were among the ancient Romans in the days of Numa ; when , as they had no sumptuous temples , nor images , so they had only temeraria de ...
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... occasion received the divine ap- probation , both in personal commendation and public deliverance . Similar impunity with respect to shedding of blood was given by the lawgivers of other nations : Pausanias relates that Draco the ...
... occasion received the divine ap- probation , both in personal commendation and public deliverance . Similar impunity with respect to shedding of blood was given by the lawgivers of other nations : Pausanias relates that Draco the ...
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Aleppo Alex alludes allusion altar amongst ancient appears Arabs blessing blood bread brought caliph called carried ceremony Chardin Christ circumstance clothed colour common crown custom David death divine drink earth East eastern Egypt Egyptians expression father feast fire garments GILL give gods gold Greeks hair hands HARMER hath head heathens Hebrews Hence Herodotus Hist Homer honour horse instance Israel Israelites JENNINGS's Jewish Jerusalem Jewish Jews Josephus Judea kind king king of Persia Lord Maimonides manner mentioned Moses mourning nations night observed Odyss offered Ovid passage passover PATRICK Persians person Philistines Plutarch practice prayer priest prince prophet Psalm Romans round sacred sacrifice Saul says scripture Scythians servants shalt shew signifies speaking stones temple thee things thou tion Trav Travels unto usual Vathek Virgil wash wine women words worship Xenophon
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 29 - I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
Seite 5 - And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
Seite 250 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Seite 339 - And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Seite 390 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Seite 306 - The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Seite 18 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp ? 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
Seite 8 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Seite 11 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Seite 377 - And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.