| 1814 - 636 pages
...descending. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. Genesis, 28. 18. From hence, probably, arose the pagan practice of consecrating certain sacred stones,... | |
| 1815 - 706 pages
...the gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put^br his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el : but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.... | |
| William Ward - 1815 - 588 pages
...xxviii. 18. " Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it." The bramhuns anoint their stone images with oil before bathing, and some anoint them with sweet-scented... | |
| Jean Antoine Dubois - 1817 - 604 pages
...Holy Scripture. Thus Jacob, after his dream, " rose up early in the morn" ing, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for " a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it*." And afterwards, in alluding to it, the angel says to him : " I am the God of Bethel, where " thou anointedst... | |
| Jean Antoine Dubois - 1817 - 604 pages
...Holy Scripture. Thus Jacob, after his dream, " rose up early in the morn" ing, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for " a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it*." And afterwards, in alluding to it, the angel says to him : " I am the God of Bethel, where " thou anointedst... | |
| William Ward - 1817 - 366 pages
...xxviii. 18. ' Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.' The bramhuns anoint their stone images with oil before bathing, and some anoint them with sweet-scented... | |
| William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...JACOB'S PILLAR. 032. [Gen. xxviii. 18.] And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. Jacob poured oil on the top of this stone, to consecrate it for a foundation of an altar, and afterwards... | |
| 1818 - 948 pages
...other of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up early in thp. morning, and took the stone that he had putfor 19 And he called the name ofthat place Beth-el : but Ihe name of that city was called Luz at the first.... | |
| Robert May - 1819 - 400 pages
...first police, I. JACOB'S MONUMENT. " And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it." This was the monument that Jacob set up. A stone, the stone on which. Ju: had laid his head, he placed... | |
| John Leland - 1819 - 436 pages
...to him which he had before made to his pious progenitors, Abraham and Isaac, he took a large stone, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it, and thereby consecrated it to a religious use; and this probably in conformity to ancient custom. And... | |
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