And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars,... The New Complete Works of Josephus - Sida 52efter Flavius Josephus - 1143 sidorBegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Peter Harrison - 2007 - 34 sidor
...call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Gen. 2:19—20 And that their inventions might not be lost before...the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars; the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that... | |
| Gerald Massey - 2007 - 682 sidor
...Set) were the inventors of astronomy, and in order that their inventions might not be lost, and acting "upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed...and at another time by the violence and quantity of waters, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone; they inscribed their discoveries... | |
| William G. McLoughlin - 2008 - 366 sidor
...he has formed of red earth. God deprived the serpent of speech and inserted poison under its tongue. Upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire and at another by the violence and quantity of water. They were bound by their traditions to repeat their Phylactery... | |
| 1926 - 826 sidor
...inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order ; and that their inventions might not be lost before...the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars and inscribed their discoveries on them bothNOAH, AN ADEPT Referring to the astronomical proficiency... | |
| Georgios Chumnos, H. F. Marshall - 212 sidor
...Josephus (Ant. Jud. i. ii. 3) has the following (Whiston's translation) : 'The children of Seth...that their inventions might not be lost before they were...that the world was to be destroyed at one time by force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, made two pillars, the one... | |
| 1887 - 848 sidor
...of remote centuries. Josephus (Antiq. Bk I, libe. 3,) in speaking of the Antediluvians, says : — " And that their inventions might not be lost before...sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world wa* to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the quantity and violence... | |
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