The Reasons of the Laws of Moses, from the "More Nevochim": With Notes, Dissertations, and a Life of the Author |
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... Stars .... VI . Reply to those who suppose that no Reasons can be assigned for the Precepts of the Law VII . As all the Natural Works of God have their respective Causes and Reasons , so also have the Precepts of the Law . - The Origin ...
... Stars .... VI . Reply to those who suppose that no Reasons can be assigned for the Precepts of the Law VII . As all the Natural Works of God have their respective Causes and Reasons , so also have the Precepts of the Law . - The Origin ...
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... STARS . ZABIANISM ; or , as it has been variously denominated Zabaism , Sabaanism , or Sabaism , consisted in the worship of the Sun and Moon , and of the other planetary bodies , and was the most ancient and most widely spread of any ...
... STARS . ZABIANISM ; or , as it has been variously denominated Zabaism , Sabaanism , or Sabaism , consisted in the worship of the Sun and Moon , and of the other planetary bodies , and was the most ancient and most widely spread of any ...
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... stars also ; ' - and , thus the heavens were finished , and all the host of them ; ' he evidently means to say to the wor- * Classical Journal , No. XLVI . p . 332 , and No. XLIV . p . 324. See also , " Young's Historical Dissertation ...
... stars also ; ' - and , thus the heavens were finished , and all the host of them ; ' he evidently means to say to the wor- * Classical Journal , No. XLVI . p . 332 , and No. XLIV . p . 324. See also , " Young's Historical Dissertation ...
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... stars , stiled in Scripture , the Hosts of Heaven . Hellenism , which superadded hereto an infinity almost of fictitious and coined gods , was of more late date , and proper to the Grecians , most skilful in the art of making gods . As ...
... stars , stiled in Scripture , the Hosts of Heaven . Hellenism , which superadded hereto an infinity almost of fictitious and coined gods , was of more late date , and proper to the Grecians , most skilful in the art of making gods . As ...
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... stars , yet , by virtue of its office , it is above them , and so termed a ' greater light . Now it is very probable , that the fame of this dominion , conferred by God on the Sun and Moon , was diffused amongst the Gentiles , first in ...
... stars , yet , by virtue of its office , it is above them , and so termed a ' greater light . Now it is very probable , that the fame of this dominion , conferred by God on the Sun and Moon , was diffused amongst the Gentiles , first in ...
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Page 318 - Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou ; and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: neither shalt thou make marriages with them ; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Page 364 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; (What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb make him ? and did not One fashion us in the womb...
Page 216 - Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein ; and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied : Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord, thy God...
Page 320 - I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth : I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Page 370 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 180 - I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 82 - 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 287 - Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine : and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
Page 363 - And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
Page 217 - And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage...