Quæstiones Mosaicæ: Or the Book of Genesis Compared with the Remains of Ancient Religions |
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... blessings which God 5 The author of this hymn sees but with the sensual eye , the eye of the great bulk of men . With him the moon , though a lesser light , is great comparatively with those specks of stars which cover the fir- mament ...
... blessings which God 5 The author of this hymn sees but with the sensual eye , the eye of the great bulk of men . With him the moon , though a lesser light , is great comparatively with those specks of stars which cover the fir- mament ...
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... blessings which He here pronounces on the inhabitants of the sea and air ! And these truly , are fruitful , and ... blessing consequently , unless we are of those who regard a fine and noble organization as the greatest of miseries , and ...
... blessings which He here pronounces on the inhabitants of the sea and air ! And these truly , are fruitful , and ... blessing consequently , unless we are of those who regard a fine and noble organization as the greatest of miseries , and ...
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... blessing . He limits man's duties by his pleasures . Those pleasures , however , are purely temporal , and 1st . Animal . They are sexual , but sexual limited by the ends for which the sexes were created : " Be fruitful , and multiply ...
... blessing . He limits man's duties by his pleasures . Those pleasures , however , are purely temporal , and 1st . Animal . They are sexual , but sexual limited by the ends for which the sexes were created : " Be fruitful , and multiply ...
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... blessing , which God pronounces on the creatures He has just made . And 4thly . The sixth day , which , like the third , has two distinct volitions , and two creations , and two ratifications , one of the first of that day's works , a ...
... blessing , which God pronounces on the creatures He has just made . And 4thly . The sixth day , which , like the third , has two distinct volitions , and two creations , and two ratifications , one of the first of that day's works , a ...
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... blessings he so earnestly prays for . It holds out to him the words of promise . It but asks of him faith , -faith in the gods whom he acknowledges ; for the Great God it is whom all worship , though perhaps blindly , though per- haps ...
... blessings he so earnestly prays for . It holds out to him the words of promise . It but asks of him faith , -faith in the gods whom he acknowledges ; for the Great God it is whom all worship , though perhaps blindly , though per- haps ...
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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...