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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98. oldal
... seal . ] The very ancient custom of sealing dispatches with a seal or signet , set in a ring , is still retained in the East . PocoCKE says , ( Travels , vol . i . p . 186. notes ) " in Egypt they make the im- pression of their name ...
... seal . ] The very ancient custom of sealing dispatches with a seal or signet , set in a ring , is still retained in the East . PocoCKE says , ( Travels , vol . i . p . 186. notes ) " in Egypt they make the im- pression of their name ...
106. oldal
... seal on the bags . In the East , in the present times , a bag of money passes ( for some time at least ) currently from hand to hand , under the authority of a banker's seal , without any examination of its contents . " No. 135.-xx. 13 ...
... seal on the bags . In the East , in the present times , a bag of money passes ( for some time at least ) currently from hand to hand , under the authority of a banker's seal , without any examination of its contents . " No. 135.-xx. 13 ...
111. oldal
... sealing them . " ( Niebuhr , p . 90. ) The Persians make up their letters in " a roll about six inches long , and a bit of paper is fastened round it with gum , and sealed with an impres- sion of ink , which resembles our printer's ink ...
... sealing them . " ( Niebuhr , p . 90. ) The Persians make up their letters in " a roll about six inches long , and a bit of paper is fastened round it with gum , and sealed with an impres- sion of ink , which resembles our printer's ink ...
119. oldal
... seal upon the knot , and so sent them to the party to whom they were directed , who cutting the string opened and read them . But on the invention of the Egyptian papy- rus for this use , all the other ways of writing were soon ...
... seal upon the knot , and so sent them to the party to whom they were directed , who cutting the string opened and read them . But on the invention of the Egyptian papy- rus for this use , all the other ways of writing were soon ...
122. oldal
... sealing . Of this we have a bright instance in the second book of Esdras : " Wheresoever thou findest the dead , seal them , and bury them ; " that is , express the benevolent prayer which is in use amongst the Jews to this day : May he ...
... sealing . Of this we have a bright instance in the second book of Esdras : " Wheresoever thou findest the dead , seal them , and bury them ; " that is , express the benevolent prayer which is in use amongst the Jews to this day : May he ...
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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.