Oriental Customs: Or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Expecially the Jews, Therien Alluded To, Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts, Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, 1. kötetWilliam W. Woodward, 1804 - 431 oldal |
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viii. oldal
... in such changes as may have been introduced by religion , which are nevertheless very inconsider . able . " ( Preface to Travels in Persia , p . vi , ) The language of the scriptures is highly figu- rative . viii PREFACE .
... in such changes as may have been introduced by religion , which are nevertheless very inconsider . able . " ( Preface to Travels in Persia , p . vi , ) The language of the scriptures is highly figu- rative . viii PREFACE .
18. oldal
... Persian legislator wrote of the advent of the Messiah in terms even more express than those contained in the foregoing predic- tion . " Zeradusht , " says he , " the preceptor of the magi , taught the Persians concerning the manifesta ...
... Persian legislator wrote of the advent of the Messiah in terms even more express than those contained in the foregoing predic- tion . " Zeradusht , " says he , " the preceptor of the magi , taught the Persians concerning the manifesta ...
35. oldal
... Persians hang over camels in the manner of panniers , and are big enough for one person to sit in . " No. 22. - xxxi . 40. In the day the drought consumed me , and the frost by night . ] " In Europe the days and nights resemble each ...
... Persians hang over camels in the manner of panniers , and are big enough for one person to sit in . " No. 22. - xxxi . 40. In the day the drought consumed me , and the frost by night . ] " In Europe the days and nights resemble each ...
36. oldal
... Persia and Tur- key they always make use of furred habits in the coun- try , such only being sufficient to resist the cold of the nights . " ( Chardin in Harmer , vol . i . p . 74. ) Cambpell ( Travels , part ii . p . 100. ) says ...
... Persia and Tur- key they always make use of furred habits in the coun- try , such only being sufficient to resist the cold of the nights . " ( Chardin in Harmer , vol . i . p . 74. ) Cambpell ( Travels , part ii . p . 100. ) says ...
40. oldal
... Persians ) that he could not possibly find any more . " And THEVENOT Says , ( Trav . p . 97 , part 2. ) " his subjects never look upon him but with fear and trembling ; and they have such respect for him , and pay so blind an obedience ...
... Persians ) that he could not possibly find any more . " And THEVENOT Says , ( Trav . p . 97 , part 2. ) " his subjects never look upon him but with fear and trembling ; and they have such respect for him , and pay so blind an obedience ...
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Abyssinia agreeable Aleppo alluded allusion amongst ancient apostle appears Arabs beasts bread called camel caravanserais carried ceremony Chardin says chres Christ circumstance cloth common court covered custom dead death deities described DODDRIDGE in loc earth East eastern Egypt Egyptians expression Ezekiel feast feet fire frequently gate give Greeks ground hand HARMER hath head heathens Hebrew Herodotus Hist honour horse Iliad Isaiah Israel Israelites Jerusalem Jews Judea kind king Lord manner MAUNDRELL mentioned Mingrelia mountain nations observed occasion passage Persian person Plutarch Pococke practice present prince probably prophet Psalm rabbins refers remarkable rites Romans sacred sacrifice salt scribes scriptures seal seems Septuagint sepulchres servants shekels shew signifies Sir John Chardin sometimes sort speaking stone Strabo supposed Syria temple thee thing thou tion Trav trees Turks unto vessel walls wine women words
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326. oldal - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
392. oldal - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
295. oldal - I like not to take her; then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
313. oldal - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
405. oldal - For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
414. oldal - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads ; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
157. oldal - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
177. oldal - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
393. oldal - Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
299. oldal - And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.