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... unto Moses , saying . " Why it has been called the Mosaic account of the Creation , I am at a loss to conceive . Moses , I be- lieve , was too good a judge of such subjects to put his name to that account . He had been educated among ...
... unto Moses , saying . " Why it has been called the Mosaic account of the Creation , I am at a loss to conceive . Moses , I be- lieve , was too good a judge of such subjects to put his name to that account . He had been educated among ...
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... unto Moses , or Moses said unto the Lord : or Moses said unto the people , or the people said unto Moses ; and this is the style and manner that histori- ans use , in speaking of the person whose lives and actions they are writing . It ...
... unto Moses , or Moses said unto the Lord : or Moses said unto the people , or the people said unto Moses ; and this is the style and manner that histori- ans use , in speaking of the person whose lives and actions they are writing . It ...
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... unto this day ; that is , unto the time in which the writer lived who wrote the book of Deu- teronomy . The writer then tells us , that Moses was 110 years of age when he died - that his eye was not dim , nor his natural force , abated ...
... unto this day ; that is , unto the time in which the writer lived who wrote the book of Deu- teronomy . The writer then tells us , that Moses was 110 years of age when he died - that his eye was not dim , nor his natural force , abated ...
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... unto Moses , whom , says this anonymous writer , the Lord knew face to face . Having thus shown , so far as grammatical evi- dence applies , that Moses was not the writer of those books , I will , after making a few observations on the ...
... unto Moses , whom , says this anonymous writer , the Lord knew face to face . Having thus shown , so far as grammatical evi- dence applies , that Moses was not the writer of those books , I will , after making a few observations on the ...
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In Two Parts Thomas Paine. man knoweth where the sepulchre is unto this day . To make Moses the speaker , would be an improve ment on the play of a child that hides himself , and cries nobody can find me ; nobody can find Moses . This ...
In Two Parts Thomas Paine. man knoweth where the sepulchre is unto this day . To make Moses the speaker , would be an improve ment on the play of a child that hides himself , and cries nobody can find me ; nobody can find Moses . This ...
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Page 147 - Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
Page 34 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as...
Page 101 - And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him.
Page 113 - These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Page 112 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 137 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 123 - We beseech thee, let this man be put to death : for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them : for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Page 105 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The...
Page 108 - The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore...
Page 8 - I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.