A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ, Volume 1

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Page 6 - Connexions ; or, the Old and New Testaments connected, in the History of the Jews and neighbouring Nations; from the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the Time of Christ.
Page 432 - Provinciarum pleraeque super templa et aras ludos quoque quinquennales paene oppidatim constituerunt. LX. Reges amici atque socii et singuli in suo quisque regno Caesareas urbes condiderunt et cuncti simul aedem lovis Olympii Athenis antiquitus incohatam perficere communi sumptu destinaverunt Genioque eius dedicare ; ac saepe regnis relictis non Romae modo...
Page 17 - WILSON. -THE LANDS OF THE BIBLE VISITED AND DESCRIBED, in an Extensive Journey undertaken with special reference to the promotion of Biblical Research and the advancement of the Cause of Philanthropy. By John Wilson, DDFRS Honorary President of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Page 190 - At the end of the third and the beginning of the second century Palestine was a shuttlecock tossed between the Ptolemies and the Seleucids; but in the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes (c.
Page 210 - Though all the nations that are under the King's dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments ; yet will I, and my sons, and my brethren, walk in the covenant of our fathers.
Page 21 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
Page 264 - Then did they till their ground in peace, and the earth gave her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit The ancient men sat all in the streets, communing together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel. He...
Page 264 - Moreover he strengthened all those of his people that were brought low: the law he searched out; and every contemner of the law and wicked person he took away. He beautified the sanctuary, and multiplied the vessels of the temple.
Page 118 - They too, therefore, are to be mentioned here, although in the form in which they have come down to us they are probably to be dated about one hundred years after the time of Christ.
Page 408 - Meo iussu et auspicio ducti sunt duo exercitus eodem fere tempore in Aethiopiam et in Arabiam, quae appellatur eudaemon, maximaeque hostium gentis utriusque copiae caesae sunt in acie et complura oppida capta.

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