The Natural History of the Bible ; Or, A Description of All the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gums, and Precious Stones, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures: Collected from the Best Authorities, and Alphabetically Arranged |
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Other animals , as several of the birds of prey , were also held sacred by the
Egyptians , or were venerated in the rites of augury ? The Hebrews , being
instructed to consider these as unclean , would be prevented from the indulgence
of the ...
Other animals , as several of the birds of prey , were also held sacred by the
Egyptians , or were venerated in the rites of augury ? The Hebrews , being
instructed to consider these as unclean , would be prevented from the indulgence
of the ...
Page 23
Bochart 72 , is of opinion that the error arose from an expression in Scripture , "
the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it ; " in the Hebrew , PiJehovah , or Pi - Jeo .
Now , in the Egyptian language , pieo signifies an ass ; the Alexandrian
Egyptians ...
Bochart 72 , is of opinion that the error arose from an expression in Scripture , "
the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it ; " in the Hebrew , PiJehovah , or Pi - Jeo .
Now , in the Egyptian language , pieo signifies an ass ; the Alexandrian
Egyptians ...
Page 95
The dog was held sacred by the Egyptians . This fact we learn from Juvenal , who
complains in his fifteenth satire , Oppida tota canem venerantur , nemo Dianam . "
The testimony of the Latin poet is confirmed by Diodorus , who , in his first ...
The dog was held sacred by the Egyptians . This fact we learn from Juvenal , who
complains in his fifteenth satire , Oppida tota canem venerantur , nemo Dianam . "
The testimony of the Latin poet is confirmed by Diodorus , who , in his first ...
Page 126
... the LXX interpreters , he observes , wrote TIN Achi for 10k ACAU ; and ,
according to their usual custom put the Greek x for the double aspirate 17. That
the grass was well known among the Egyptians he owns in his Comment upon
Isai . xix .
... the LXX interpreters , he observes , wrote TIN Achi for 10k ACAU ; and ,
according to their usual custom put the Greek x for the double aspirate 17. That
the grass was well known among the Egyptians he owns in his Comment upon
Isai . xix .
Page 173
... with unclean rites ; and that public prostitution formed a grand part of the
worship of many deities among the Egyptians ... of their goat worship , it was
customary for the Egyptian women to prostitute themselves to that represented
their god .
... with unclean rites ; and that public prostitution formed a grand part of the
worship of many deities among the Egyptians ... of their goat worship , it was
customary for the Egyptian women to prostitute themselves to that represented
their god .
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| Title | The Natural History of the Bible ; Or, A Description of All the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gums, and Precious Stones, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures: Collected from the Best Authorities, and Alphabetically Arranged |
| Author | Thaddeus Mason Harris |
| Contributor | Chiswick Press |
| Publisher | T. Teggy, 1824 |
| Original from | Montserrat Abbey Library |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2011 |
| Length | 430 pages |
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