Abraham: His Life and TimesJames Nisbet et Company, 1886 - 179 páginas |
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Página iii
... desire to accumulate on a great forefather anything that would tend to elevate his personal character or exalt the favour with which he was regarded by God . The narrative appears to me to be con- sistent , derived doubtless from ...
... desire to accumulate on a great forefather anything that would tend to elevate his personal character or exalt the favour with which he was regarded by God . The narrative appears to me to be con- sistent , derived doubtless from ...
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... desire for new fields of enterprise which are implanted in man for wise purposes . We do not know the particular impulse which led these Shemites , whose predilections were for a pastoral life , thus to become inhabitants of a busy ...
... desire for new fields of enterprise which are implanted in man for wise purposes . We do not know the particular impulse which led these Shemites , whose predilections were for a pastoral life , thus to become inhabitants of a busy ...
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... desire of change . Nahor and his wife Milcah followed the steps of Terah , and arrived at Haran , bringing with them the superstitions of their old home , and only half weaned from the idolatry which Abram had spurned at so great a ...
... desire of change . Nahor and his wife Milcah followed the steps of Terah , and arrived at Haran , bringing with them the superstitions of their old home , and only half weaned from the idolatry which Abram had spurned at so great a ...
Página 57
... desires at hand , and proceeded imme- diately to carry them out . From the encampment on the east of Bethel , he looked down on a wide reach of country . On three sides , indeed , the view was not inviting to a shepherd's Stanley ...
... desires at hand , and proceeded imme- diately to carry them out . From the encampment on the east of Bethel , he looked down on a wide reach of country . On three sides , indeed , the view was not inviting to a shepherd's Stanley ...
Página 76
... desire for military renown or triumphs won by blood . His very success in the late enterprise might lead to reprisals which would bring danger and suffering ; that arm which had struck the revolting Cities of the Plain might easily be ...
... desire for military renown or triumphs won by blood . His very success in the late enterprise might lead to reprisals which would bring danger and suffering ; that arm which had struck the revolting Cities of the Plain might easily be ...
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Abimelech Abraham Abram Amorites ancient angels Babylonia Beersheba blessing Book of Jubilees called Canaan Canaanites Chaldæa chap character Chedorlaomer child Christ Christian covenant Damascus daughter dead descendants Divine doubtless dwelt earth Egypt Elamite Eliezer Euphrates faith father favour feet God's Hagar hand Haran heaven Hebrew Hebron heir hills Hittites Holy honour hundred inhabitants inscriptions Isaac Ishmael Israel Israelites Jacob Jehovah Jewish Jordan Josephus Josephus Antiq Keturah king land live Lord Machpelah Mamre Melchizedek miles moral Moses mother Nahor nations natural neighbourhood obedience offered Palestine patriarch plain possession posterity priest probably promise Rawlinson Rebekah received regarded revelation righteous sacrifice Sarah Sarai says Scripture seed seems Semitic Septuagint servant Shechem Sodom sojourn soul spot stranger supposed temple tent Terah thee thou town tradition transaction tribes true religion truth unto valley wife word worship