Abraham: His Life and TimesJames Nisbet et Company, 1886 - 179 páginas |
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... hands of the Semitic Casdim " ( Chaldees ) before this time . Of course , this adjunct , Casdim , does not appertain to the original name , but is an explanation added by the Hebrew narrator . The modern name of this place means the ...
... hands of the Semitic Casdim " ( Chaldees ) before this time . Of course , this adjunct , Casdim , does not appertain to the original name , but is an explanation added by the Hebrew narrator . The modern name of this place means the ...
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... hands of the learned class . Mathematics , law , govern- ment , were duly studied and reduced to system ; weaving , metal - working , gem - engraving , were practised with remarkable skill . Writing was well known , and libraries were ...
... hands of the learned class . Mathematics , law , govern- ment , were duly studied and reduced to system ; weaving , metal - working , gem - engraving , were practised with remarkable skill . Writing was well known , and libraries were ...
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... hands of idolaters whom his pure life , if not his actual teaching , rebuked ? We read of no such hazards undergone after his migration . He encounters no religious opposition in Haran , ur Canaan , or Egypt . In those stages of his ...
... hands of idolaters whom his pure life , if not his actual teaching , rebuked ? We read of no such hazards undergone after his migration . He encounters no religious opposition in Haran , ur Canaan , or Egypt . In those stages of his ...
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... hand that led him , and the voice that first called him , St. Stephen speaks ; of the blind obedience that followed that Divine direction the Epistle to the Hebrews tells us ( chap . xi . ) , when it teaches that he went out , not ...
... hand that led him , and the voice that first called him , St. Stephen speaks ; of the blind obedience that followed that Divine direction the Epistle to the Hebrews tells us ( chap . xi . ) , when it teaches that he went out , not ...
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... hands ? But no such considerations influenced his actions . We do not indeed know anything of his character and feelings before this time ; but there must have been a certain fitness in the recipient of this revelation ; his antecedents ...
... hands ? But no such considerations influenced his actions . We do not indeed know anything of his character and feelings before this time ; but there must have been a certain fitness in the recipient of this revelation ; his antecedents ...
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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