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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The Jews religiously abhorred the society , manners , and institutions of the
Gentiles , because they viewed their own abstinence from forbidden meats as a
token of peculiar sanctity , and of course regarded other nations , who wanted
this ...
The Jews religiously abhorred the society , manners , and institutions of the
Gentiles , because they viewed their own abstinence from forbidden meats as a
token of peculiar sanctity , and of course regarded other nations , who wanted
this ...
Page xxviii
we nating ritual was given to the Jews , and though they have been scattered
abroad among every nation upon earth ... observed to the people who were
present , “ Ye know that it is not lawful for a man that is a Jew to keep company
with , or ...
we nating ritual was given to the Jews , and though they have been scattered
abroad among every nation upon earth ... observed to the people who were
present , “ Ye know that it is not lawful for a man that is a Jew to keep company
with , or ...
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But whatever were the methods commonly practised , the enemies of the Jews
are here compared to such serpents as were not to be mollified nor disarmed by
any of those means ; “ they shall bite you , saith Jehovah . " The passage which
led ...
But whatever were the methods commonly practised , the enemies of the Jews
are here compared to such serpents as were not to be mollified nor disarmed by
any of those means ; “ they shall bite you , saith Jehovah . " The passage which
led ...
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The Jews were accused by the Pagans of worshiping the head of an ass . Appion
... Suidas ( in Damocrito , et in Juda ) , says that Damocritus , or Democritus the
historian averred that the Jews adored the head of an ass , made of gold , & c .
The Jews were accused by the Pagans of worshiping the head of an ass . Appion
... Suidas ( in Damocrito , et in Juda ) , says that Damocritus , or Democritus the
historian averred that the Jews adored the head of an ass , made of gold , & c .
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ing ; as if the Greeks , meaning to say that the Hebrews adored heaven , ouranon
, might in abbreviation write ounon ; from whence the enemies of the Jews
concluded that they worshiped onos , Or perhaps , reading in Latin authors that
they ...
ing ; as if the Greeks , meaning to say that the Hebrews adored heaven , ouranon
, might in abbreviation write ounon ; from whence the enemies of the Jews
concluded that they worshiped onos , Or perhaps , reading in Latin authors that
they ...
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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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