Literary Characteristics and Achievements of the BibleA. and C. Black, 1863 - 335 страница |
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... civilization gives an explicit answer to this question ; and that its answer is - the Bible . The mention of modern civilization in this connec- tion suggests the instructive fact , how very few of the nations of antiquity which emerged ...
... civilization gives an explicit answer to this question ; and that its answer is - the Bible . The mention of modern civilization in this connec- tion suggests the instructive fact , how very few of the nations of antiquity which emerged ...
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... civilization . Before proceeding to illustrate the three great facts into which I have summarized the literary achievements of the Bible , it will be proper to take a glance at the literature and the arts of those nations which , though ...
... civilization . Before proceeding to illustrate the three great facts into which I have summarized the literary achievements of the Bible , it will be proper to take a glance at the literature and the arts of those nations which , though ...
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... civilization , which a knowledge of the Scrip- tures might have prevented ? Over against the singular inventiveness of the Chinese set this fact - that they rarely , if ever , improve upon their inventions ; but soon as a discovery is ...
... civilization , which a knowledge of the Scrip- tures might have prevented ? Over against the singular inventiveness of the Chinese set this fact - that they rarely , if ever , improve upon their inventions ; but soon as a discovery is ...
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... civilization would theirs by this time have been ! Here I can imagine the infidel to say— “ You have glanced at nations which were without the Bible : I now turn to a nation which alone possessed it for centuries . And what do I find ...
... civilization would theirs by this time have been ! Here I can imagine the infidel to say— “ You have glanced at nations which were without the Bible : I now turn to a nation which alone possessed it for centuries . And what do I find ...
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... civilization . As has justly been re- marked , there is no surer sign of a high civilization than a great division of labour , and a complication of trades . Take then the following passage : " Among the craftsmen we find artificers in ...
... civilization . As has justly been re- marked , there is no surer sign of a high civilization than a great division of labour , and a complication of trades . Take then the following passage : " Among the craftsmen we find artificers in ...
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Страница 59 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls ; for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Страница 118 - And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth.
Страница 61 - The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused me to pass by them round about : and, behold, there were very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry.
Страница 65 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Страница 65 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Страница 55 - Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail ; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets...
Страница 61 - So I prophesied as I was commanded : and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. " And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above : but there was no breath in them.
Страница 69 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps. Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his word.
Страница 78 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Страница 55 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2.