The Modern Review, Volume 4J. Clarke & Company, 1883 - Religion |
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... regard as roughly fixed in their chronological positions . When we compare the Psalms and the Prophets in their general aspects we can hardly doubt where the priority lies . The Prophets endeavour to teach Israel that which the ...
... regard as roughly fixed in their chronological positions . When we compare the Psalms and the Prophets in their general aspects we can hardly doubt where the priority lies . The Prophets endeavour to teach Israel that which the ...
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... regard for his colleagues and his pupils , his unconcealed pride in his magnificent library ( a suspicion of any defect in which would evidently hurt him more than an attack on his own learning or candour ) , his constant earnestness ...
... regard for his colleagues and his pupils , his unconcealed pride in his magnificent library ( a suspicion of any defect in which would evidently hurt him more than an attack on his own learning or candour ) , his constant earnestness ...
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... regard to some of the most momentous topics of human life . At least it has been within that time that the effects have been most fully realised , not only by the men of science and the theologians , but , directly or in- directly , by ...
... regard to some of the most momentous topics of human life . At least it has been within that time that the effects have been most fully realised , not only by the men of science and the theologians , but , directly or in- directly , by ...
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... regard to men in their relations to one another . The religion of Nature , or Science ; the Religion of Art , or the higher Paganism ; the religion of Humanity , or Natural Christianity . — these all imply a real theology which is ...
... regard to men in their relations to one another . The religion of Nature , or Science ; the Religion of Art , or the higher Paganism ; the religion of Humanity , or Natural Christianity . — these all imply a real theology which is ...
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... regard to the fundamental question of the supernatural marks the change that has come over men's thoughts in relation to miracle . While none of them perhaps , at least none who write from a theistic point of view , would deny the a ...
... regard to the fundamental question of the supernatural marks the change that has come over men's thoughts in relation to miracle . While none of them perhaps , at least none who write from a theistic point of view , would deny the a ...
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Page 111 - Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee ; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 258 - But as for thee, stand thou here by me , and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
Page 15 - For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Page 450 - And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Page 485 - SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought.
Page 61 - Nay, more, that it is still further to depress the condition of the lowest class. The new forces, elevating in their nature though they be, do not act upon the social fabric from underneath, as was for a long time hoped and believed, but strike it at a point intermediate between top and bottom. It is as though an immense wedge were being forced, not underneath society, but through society. Those who are above the point of separation are elevated, but those who are below are crushed down.
Page 706 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 262 - And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Page 262 - And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
Page 257 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.