Literary Characteristics and Achievements of the BibleA. and C. Black, 1863 - 335 страница |
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... poets , can be compared with those of Homer , or Virgil , or Milton . But all the while , so far from forgetting that the Bible is a divine book , we keep this ground idea constantly in the forefront , so that the comparison at once ...
... poets , can be compared with those of Homer , or Virgil , or Milton . But all the while , so far from forgetting that the Bible is a divine book , we keep this ground idea constantly in the forefront , so that the comparison at once ...
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... poets of Judah are less worthy to be studied . And here it occurs to me to add another general observation that out of the literary excellences of the Scriptures , no small argument for their divinity might be made . Admit them to be ...
... poets of Judah are less worthy to be studied . And here it occurs to me to add another general observation that out of the literary excellences of the Scriptures , no small argument for their divinity might be made . Admit them to be ...
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... poets — is eminently poetical . The style of Solomon , the sacred aphorist , has exactly the point , terseness , and antithesis which that species of writing requires . The style of Paul , who is confessedly the sacred logi- cian , is ...
... poets — is eminently poetical . The style of Solomon , the sacred aphorist , has exactly the point , terseness , and antithesis which that species of writing requires . The style of Paul , who is confessedly the sacred logi- cian , is ...
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... poet have reared some exquisite literary monuments , which we do not hesitate to admire any the less because it took so much time and patience to rear them . Let it be remembered , then , that at one instantaneous stroke the sacred ...
... poet have reared some exquisite literary monuments , which we do not hesitate to admire any the less because it took so much time and patience to rear them . Let it be remembered , then , that at one instantaneous stroke the sacred ...
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... poetic soul ; the simple love - breathing style of John in his epistles , but rising , as true simplicity and tenderness can rise , into the sublime in his apocalypse ; the argumentative , elliptical , paren- thetic style of Paul ; the ...
... poetic soul ; the simple love - breathing style of John in his epistles , but rising , as true simplicity and tenderness can rise , into the sublime in his apocalypse ; the argumentative , elliptical , paren- thetic style of Paul ; the ...
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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.