Oriental Customs: Or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Expecially the Jews, Therien Alluded To, Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts, Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Volumen1William W. Woodward, 1804 - 431 páginas |
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... Greek servant Michael , ( a simple fellow , incapable of any invention ) about the same circumstance , and must say , that he commonly agreed with his master , as to the chief points . The description Mr. Bruce makes concerning the ...
... Greek servant Michael , ( a simple fellow , incapable of any invention ) about the same circumstance , and must say , that he commonly agreed with his master , as to the chief points . The description Mr. Bruce makes concerning the ...
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... Greeks and Romans till many ages after the Hebrew judges . " No nation of antiquity knew the use of either saddles or stirrups ; " ( GOGUET , Origin of Laws , vol . iii . p . 172. English edit . ) and even in our own times , Hasselquist ...
... Greeks and Romans till many ages after the Hebrew judges . " No nation of antiquity knew the use of either saddles or stirrups ; " ( GOGUET , Origin of Laws , vol . iii . p . 172. English edit . ) and even in our own times , Hasselquist ...
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... Greek and Roman coins , Thus the Attic mina and the Roman libra equally sig nify a pound ; and the rarng ( stater ) of the Greeks , so called from weighing , is decisive as to this point . The Jewish sheckel was also a weight as well as ...
... Greek and Roman coins , Thus the Attic mina and the Roman libra equally sig nify a pound ; and the rarng ( stater ) of the Greeks , so called from weighing , is decisive as to this point . The Jewish sheckel was also a weight as well as ...
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... Greek convent at Bellmount , near Tripoli , in Syria , he says , " the same person whom we saw officiating at the altar in his embroidered sacerdotal robe brought us the next day , on his own back , a kid and a goats skin of wine , as a ...
... Greek convent at Bellmount , near Tripoli , in Syria , he says , " the same person whom we saw officiating at the altar in his embroidered sacerdotal robe brought us the next day , on his own back , a kid and a goats skin of wine , as a ...
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... Greeks , and which he conceives to be of great antiquity , and also of eastern origin . " That it was practised by the Jews , is by some inferred from the story of Jonathan , the son of king Saul , who going to encounter a Philistine ...
... Greeks , and which he conceives to be of great antiquity , and also of eastern origin . " That it was practised by the Jews , is by some inferred from the story of Jonathan , the son of king Saul , who going to encounter a Philistine ...
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Página 326 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Página 392 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Página 295 - I like not to take her; then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
Página 313 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Página 405 - For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Página 414 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads ; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Página 157 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Página 177 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
Página 393 - Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Página 299 - And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.