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Acts vii Acts xvi Acts xx alludes allusion ancient apostle Arabia Arabs Asia Minor Barnes Bible Boothroyd called Canaan Capernaum Christ Chron church custom cxix denotes Deut Divine east eastern Eccles Edom Egypt Epistle Esth Exod Ezek Ezra feet Galilee garments Greek heathen Hebrew Herod Holy idol Idumea Israel James James iii Jerusalem Jewish Jews John ii John xix Jonah Josh Judah Judea Judg Kings xix Kings xxiii Lord Luke Luke xxii lxvi Mark xiv Matt means miles Numb Persians Phil Philistines priest PROPHECIES prophets Prov Psalms Roman sacred Samaria Scripture Septuagint signifies Song stone symbolically Syria temple Testament Thess thou Titus tree viii word worship xlii xlix xlvi xvii xviii xxiv xxix xxvi xxvii xxxi xxxii xxxiv xxxix xxxv Zech
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Page 122 - He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.
Page 52 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words ; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...
Page 135 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 47 - And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.
Page 342 - On the north side it has an old Turkish ungarrisoned castle ; besides which, you see nothing here but a mere Babel of broken walls, pillars, vaults, &c., there being not so much as one entire house left. Its present inhabitants are only a few poor wretches, harbouring themselves in the vaults, and subsisting chiefly upon fishing, who seem to be preserved in this place by Divine providence, as a visible argument how God has fulfilled His word concerning Tyre, viz. that it should be as the top of a...
Page 199 - The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Page 231 - HOPE of finding either, is the most terrible situation that a man can be placed in, and one of the greatest sufferings that a human being can sustain. The eyes grow inflamed ; the tongue and lips swell ; a hollow sound is heard in the ears, which brings on deafness; and the brains appear to grow thick and inflamed: all these feelings arise from the want of a little water.
Page 338 - I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
Page 39 - When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou...
Page 262 - But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God ; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.