Abraham: His Life and TimesJames Nisbet et Company, 1886 - 179 páginas |
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... never visited the country . The whole plain is covered with palm trees , most of them bearing fruit , and from them they make bread , wine , and honey . " Modern travellers recognize the productive powers of the soil while deploring the ...
... never visited the country . The whole plain is covered with palm trees , most of them bearing fruit , and from them they make bread , wine , and honey . " Modern travellers recognize the productive powers of the soil while deploring the ...
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... never rose to these higher conceptions . Believing that their own destinies and the forces of nature were controlled by capricious deities without moral sense , they resorted to propi- tiatory sacrifices and prayers where they ought to ...
... never rose to these higher conceptions . Believing that their own destinies and the forces of nature were controlled by capricious deities without moral sense , they resorted to propi- tiatory sacrifices and prayers where they ought to ...
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... Terah's clan was of the latter class , and that the name " Ur " included the neighbouring dis- trict . The Chaldæans were a peaceable nation , and never , as far as we know , aspired to foreign conquest and ADRAM'S BIRTHPLACE . 7.
... Terah's clan was of the latter class , and that the name " Ur " included the neighbouring dis- trict . The Chaldæans were a peaceable nation , and never , as far as we know , aspired to foreign conquest and ADRAM'S BIRTHPLACE . 7.
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... never been lost , though overlaid with accretions and combined with many superstitions ; and to such a mind as Abram's it must have had a vast attraction which discredited all the allurements of idolatrous worship . Never till now has ...
... never been lost , though overlaid with accretions and combined with many superstitions ; and to such a mind as Abram's it must have had a vast attraction which discredited all the allurements of idolatrous worship . Never till now has ...
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His Life and Times William J. Deane. Never till now has any mention been made of a distinct ap- pearance of the Lord to man , and what the expression imports has occasioned some perplexity . When God spake to Adam in Eden , or to Noah ...
His Life and Times William J. Deane. Never till now has any mention been made of a distinct ap- pearance of the Lord to man , and what the expression imports has occasioned some perplexity . When God spake to Adam in Eden , or to Noah ...
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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