Quæstiones Mosaicæ: Or the Book of Genesis Compared with the Remains of Ancient Religions |
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... race which Humanity has to run , and for which we have yet scarce girded up our loins , of that race , whose goal , after six thousand years of labour , is even now beyond our horizon , -God created Heaven , earth , and man . But was ...
... race which Humanity has to run , and for which we have yet scarce girded up our loins , of that race , whose goal , after six thousand years of labour , is even now beyond our horizon , -God created Heaven , earth , and man . But was ...
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... race . ' 6 " And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground . " Many are the origins which man has fabled for himself . Either he is a spontaneous production of mere matter ; sometimes of water , as in the Lamaic creed : but more ...
... race . ' 6 " And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground . " Many are the origins which man has fabled for himself . Either he is a spontaneous production of mere matter ; sometimes of water , as in the Lamaic creed : but more ...
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... race one mother , heaven - descended , and six fathers , of whom they narrate many stories , though they know neither how nor whence these first men came into the world . Which of these conjectures is the most rational I will leave ...
... race one mother , heaven - descended , and six fathers , of whom they narrate many stories , though they know neither how nor whence these first men came into the world . Which of these conjectures is the most rational I will leave ...
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... race , and described as a garden containing every thing that could satisfy the wants , or gratify the fancy of its inhabitants . For Eden , as a terrestrial paradise , we may find parallels in the splendid fables of the Greeks , ' the ...
... race , and described as a garden containing every thing that could satisfy the wants , or gratify the fancy of its inhabitants . For Eden , as a terrestrial paradise , we may find parallels in the splendid fables of the Greeks , ' the ...
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... race ; we don't know or do any thing but look for food , and dance when we have got it ; all we want to know is where to get a large animal to kill and eat . " -Alexander's Interior of Africa . " The inhabitants of Port- Philip ( New ...
... race ; we don't know or do any thing but look for food , and dance when we have got it ; all we want to know is where to get a large animal to kill and eat . " -Alexander's Interior of Africa . " The inhabitants of Port- Philip ( New ...
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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...