St. Paul and his localities in their past and present condition, as lately visitedA. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1856 - 424 pages |
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... remarkable and perhaps imaginary coincidence after another , the whole machinery is thereby regulated to their own time of day exactly . After all , therefore , that the most learned , accurate , and impartial historians have attempted ...
... remarkable and perhaps imaginary coincidence after another , the whole machinery is thereby regulated to their own time of day exactly . After all , therefore , that the most learned , accurate , and impartial historians have attempted ...
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... remarkable in ancient history ; and on the ocean often were there ten or twelve islands seen at once by the naked eye , all beautiful beyond description merely to look at , but interesting far more from the details of sacred and civil ...
... remarkable in ancient history ; and on the ocean often were there ten or twelve islands seen at once by the naked eye , all beautiful beyond description merely to look at , but interesting far more from the details of sacred and civil ...
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... remarkable , and one of them is far- famed as having contained the cave of the Seven Sleepers . The waters are limpid and very cold , being merely melted snow , shaded from the sun , bedded in deep rock , and gushing with rapidity for a ...
... remarkable , and one of them is far- famed as having contained the cave of the Seven Sleepers . The waters are limpid and very cold , being merely melted snow , shaded from the sun , bedded in deep rock , and gushing with rapidity for a ...
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... remarkable people cannot be adduced in proof of the poverty , but of the prudence of Saul's parents . " What is commanded of a father towards a son ? " says a Talmudic writer . " To circumcise him , to teach him the law , and to teach ...
... remarkable people cannot be adduced in proof of the poverty , but of the prudence of Saul's parents . " What is commanded of a father towards a son ? " says a Talmudic writer . " To circumcise him , to teach him the law , and to teach ...
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... remarkable that it should ever have been used as such , and more so that it should claim an existence prior to the deluge . The harbour , if such it may be called , is formed by a ridge of rocks running north and south before the ...
... remarkable that it should ever have been used as such , and more so that it should claim an existence prior to the deluge . The harbour , if such it may be called , is formed by a ridge of rocks running north and south before the ...
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Page 69 - Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, las he was] calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Page 85 - Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 414 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed ; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments...
Page 153 - Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you ; but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles: 47.
Page 392 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often,...
Page 271 - He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
Page 88 - Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
Page 282 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Page 385 - But rise and stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee.
Page 414 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.