Idumaea: With a Survey of Arabia and the ArabiansReligious Tract Society, 1799 - 192 sidor |
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... centuries . The science of our age , as well as its religion , is indebted to this land . Our present names for many of the elementary sciences are derived from its primeval language , and attest either that the intellects of the men of ...
... centuries . The science of our age , as well as its religion , is indebted to this land . Our present names for many of the elementary sciences are derived from its primeval language , and attest either that the intellects of the men of ...
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... century . Among ancient writers , neither Strabo , nor Pliny , nor Ptolemy , nor Josephus , nor any other geographer or historian , makes the slightest allusion to it , although they often describe the adjacent regions . The historians ...
... century . Among ancient writers , neither Strabo , nor Pliny , nor Ptolemy , nor Josephus , nor any other geographer or historian , makes the slightest allusion to it , although they often describe the adjacent regions . The historians ...
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... their sublimest images . In the middle of the third century of the Christian era these mountains were the refuge of Egyptian Christians in times of persecution , The legend of St. first fled to where they were 32 IDUMEA .
... their sublimest images . In the middle of the third century of the Christian era these mountains were the refuge of Egyptian Christians in times of persecution , The legend of St. first fled to where they were 32 IDUMEA .
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... century , about A.D. 307. In the third and fourth centuries , also , ascetics and anchorites took their rise in Egypt , and were soon followed by communities of monks in desert places . These were attracted by the loneliness and ...
... century , about A.D. 307. In the third and fourth centuries , also , ascetics and anchorites took their rise in Egypt , and were soon followed by communities of monks in desert places . These were attracted by the loneliness and ...
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... century onwards , a very considerable Christian population existed in the peninsula . The remains of the many convents , chapels , and hermitages , which are still visible in various quarters , go to show the same thing , and add weight ...
... century onwards , a very considerable Christian population existed in the peninsula . The remains of the many convents , chapels , and hermitages , which are still visible in various quarters , go to show the same thing , and add weight ...
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Sida 191 - Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places ; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down ; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.
Sida 192 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it they fell on their faces and they said, "The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
Sida 184 - It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Sida 159 - Thy terribleness hath deceived thee and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that boldest the height of the hill. Though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
Sida 79 - And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan ; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
Sida 23 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Sida 166 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats...
Sida 79 - Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
Sida 167 - And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Sida 83 - Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: 16 And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border.