Quæstiones Mosaicæ: Or the Book of Genesis Compared with the Remains of Ancient Religions |
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... Ormuzd , the holy Logos9 of Christianity , which afterwards called into being the hea- vens and the earth , and the waters , and the pure worlds of light ? Again impossible . God is the same yesterday , to - day , and for ever : moved ...
... Ormuzd , the holy Logos9 of Christianity , which afterwards called into being the hea- vens and the earth , and the waters , and the pure worlds of light ? Again impossible . God is the same yesterday , to - day , and for ever : moved ...
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... Ormuzd is thus ad- dressed , " Juste Juge , éclatant de gloire et de lumière , qui sçavez tout , agissant , Seigneur des seig- neurs , Roi élevé sur tous les rois , Créateur qui donnez aux créatures la nourriture nécessaire de chaque ...
... Ormuzd is thus ad- dressed , " Juste Juge , éclatant de gloire et de lumière , qui sçavez tout , agissant , Seigneur des seig- neurs , Roi élevé sur tous les rois , Créateur qui donnez aux créatures la nourriture nécessaire de chaque ...
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... Ormuzd , coeternal with him ; Ormuzd , in fact , himself is light . Moses held , then , on this point , certainly no singular and probably none but popular , opinions . 5 But this sunless light produces morning and evening ; hence other ...
... Ormuzd , coeternal with him ; Ormuzd , in fact , himself is light . Moses held , then , on this point , certainly no singular and probably none but popular , opinions . 5 But this sunless light produces morning and evening ; hence other ...
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... Ormuzd ; and in Moses , God nowhere gives a name , save to his creatures . 8 Second day ( v . 6 and 8 ) : " And God said , Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters , and let it divide the waters from the waters . " Similarly ...
... Ormuzd ; and in Moses , God nowhere gives a name , save to his creatures . 8 Second day ( v . 6 and 8 ) : " And God said , Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters , and let it divide the waters from the waters . " Similarly ...
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... Ormuzd is no god ; the world is created a soul - less mass , and Kneph of the Egyptian triad never had existence ; sun , moon , and stars are created the measures of time , and the Sabæan deities are vain idols ; the productive powers ...
... Ormuzd is no god ; the world is created a soul - less mass , and Kneph of the Egyptian triad never had existence ; sun , moon , and stars are created the measures of time , and the Sabæan deities are vain idols ; the productive powers ...
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Page 220 - And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female.
Page 220 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Page 220 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Page 221 - And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him : and the LORD shut him in.
Page 222 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 222 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 221 - And Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons
Page 200 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 222 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Page 201 - Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...