Observations on Various Passages of Scripture: Placing Them in a New Light; and Ascertaining the Meaning of Several, Not Determinable by the Methods Commonly Made Use of by the Learned, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1808 - Bible |
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... representing the mourning of the women of Ramah at the tombs of their dead relations , that lifting up their hands on high was one posture into which they threw them- selves . And as the word " ronnee , translated cry out , signifies ...
... representing the mourning of the women of Ramah at the tombs of their dead relations , that lifting up their hands on high was one posture into which they threw them- selves . And as the word " ronnee , translated cry out , signifies ...
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... represents this part of it as probably signifying , " Solitude shall reign in the house ; and if one is left , he must be silent ( see ch . viii . 3. ) and retired , lest he be plun- dered of his scanty provisions . " It is certain that ...
... represents this part of it as probably signifying , " Solitude shall reign in the house ; and if one is left , he must be silent ( see ch . viii . 3. ) and retired , lest he be plun- dered of his scanty provisions . " It is certain that ...
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... represented ; and a number of interrogations were addressed to the dead person : As , why did he die ? If married , whether his wife was faithful to him , his sons dutiful , or good warriors ? If a woman , whether her daughters were ...
... represented ; and a number of interrogations were addressed to the dead person : As , why did he die ? If married , whether his wife was faithful to him , his sons dutiful , or good warriors ? If a woman , whether her daughters were ...
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... represented , in one and the same paragraph , as personating two such different and even opposite characters . OBSERVATION XVI . Warriors often buried with their Armour . THE burying warriors with their arms , seems also to have been a ...
... represented , in one and the same paragraph , as personating two such different and even opposite characters . OBSERVATION XVI . Warriors often buried with their Armour . THE burying warriors with their arms , seems also to have been a ...
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... represented as carried forth to be buried in a Logos or bier , for the present inhabitants of the Levant , who are well known to lay their dead in the earth unin- closed , carry them frequently out to burial in a kind of coffin so ...
... represented as carried forth to be buried in a Logos or bier , for the present inhabitants of the Levant , who are well known to lay their dead in the earth unin- closed , carry them frequently out to burial in a kind of coffin so ...
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OBSERVATIONS ON VARIOUS PASSAG, Volume 3 Thomas 1714-1788 Harmer,Adam 1760?-1832 Clarke No preview available - 2016 |
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according Aleppo anointing appears apprehend Arabian Arabs Barbary blossom body book of Job burial burial-place buried called celebrated chre clause colour custom d'Herbelot daughter dead death East Eastern Egypt Egyptian Egyptian Arabs embalmed express flowers frequently garden give gold grave Greek head Hebrew Holy Land honour Houssain imagine inclosed inhabitants inscriptions Israel Jephthah Jerusalem Jewish Jews Josephus Jotapata Judea kind king Lambert Bos lament LORD Maillet manner means mentioned Mequinez Mingrelia modern Mohammedan Moses mosque mourning natural OBSERVATION occasion old age olive-tree passage perfumes Persian plant practised prince probably Prophet Psalm remarked rock sacred saints says Scripture seems Septuagint sepulchre Shaw signifies singing Sir John Chardin solemn Solomon songs speaking stones supposed Syria tells thee things thou tion tombs translation Travels trees unto verse vine winter women wont word writing written
Popular passages
Page 109 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 231 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 447 - And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.
Page 93 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 509 - Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not ; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert; and be healed.
Page 59 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 243 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 567 - And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood ; and that there may be blood throughout the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
Page 37 - Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come : and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Page 82 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.