Abraham: His Life and TimesJames Nisbet et Company, 1886 - 179 páginas |
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... learned to acquiesce in it , must at first have seemed an outrage on their own pure religious tradition . Under the open heaven , in the free air of the plain , they could have worshipped the Lord as their fore . father Noah had ...
... learned to acquiesce in it , must at first have seemed an outrage on their own pure religious tradition . Under the open heaven , in the free air of the plain , they could have worshipped the Lord as their fore . father Noah had ...
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... 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 collected ...
... 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 collected ...
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... learned to worship and serve the creature instead of the Creator ; they had indeed sunk into creature worship ; they had refused that apprehension of God which the light of conscience and the physical universe might have taught ; and ...
... learned to worship and serve the creature instead of the Creator ; they had indeed sunk into creature worship ; they had refused that apprehension of God which the light of conscience and the physical universe might have taught ; and ...
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... learned to adore the Creator , and felt the nothing- ness of the idolatry and creature worship which satisfied his family and countrymen . " When night overshadowed him , " says the Koran , " he saw a star , and said , ' This is my Lord ...
... learned to adore the Creator , and felt the nothing- ness of the idolatry and creature worship which satisfied his family and countrymen . " When night overshadowed him , " says the Koran , " he saw a star , and said , ' This is my Lord ...
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... learned a new lesson concerning God . He now saw in the Lord , not merely the great Creator , but also a moral Governor ; he recognized His ruling Providence ; he knew that it was God's will that he should settle in the land to which he ...
... learned a new lesson concerning God . He now saw in the Lord , not merely the great Creator , but also a moral Governor ; he recognized His ruling Providence ; he knew that it was God's will that he should settle in the land to which he ...
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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