Abraham: His Life and TimesJames Nisbet et Company, 1886 - 179 páginas |
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... offering a great variety of soil and climate depending upon eleva- tion and water supply . Haran itself lay in the centre of a rich , alluvial plain of marvellous fertility . One who visited the country a few years ago writes thus ...
... offering a great variety of soil and climate depending upon eleva- tion and water supply . Haran itself lay in the centre of a rich , alluvial plain of marvellous fertility . One who visited the country a few years ago writes thus ...
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... offered insurmountable difficulties to such a caval- cade ; but from the ford at Thapsacus a great caravan route led to Damascus , traversed continually by merchants , and not unused by armies , and doubtless supplied more or less abun ...
... offered insurmountable difficulties to such a caval- cade ; but from the ford at Thapsacus a great caravan route led to Damascus , traversed continually by merchants , and not unused by armies , and doubtless supplied more or less abun ...
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... offering the more favourably would the offerer be regarded , they scrupled not to slay their own offspring on the □ Homer , " Od . " iii . 292. Ewald , " History of Israel , ” i . 245 . * Malan , " Philosophy or Truth , " p . 131 f ...
... offering the more favourably would the offerer be regarded , they scrupled not to slay their own offspring on the □ Homer , " Od . " iii . 292. Ewald , " History of Israel , ” i . 245 . * Malan , " Philosophy or Truth , " p . 131 f ...
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... offering a meal to the passing traveller ; but their means are small and their resources vile . They live in miserable ... offered a pleasing contrast to that of the natives . Simple and unluxurious , he spread his tent in some favoured ...
... offering a meal to the passing traveller ; but their means are small and their resources vile . They live in miserable ... offered a pleasing contrast to that of the natives . Simple and unluxurious , he spread his tent in some favoured ...
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... offered his eucharistic sacrifice on the renovated earth , so here the father of the faithful pro- claimed his faith and consecrated the land by raising his lowly altar to the Lord who had appeared to him . Here was his witness to the ...
... offered his eucharistic sacrifice on the renovated earth , so here the father of the faithful pro- claimed his faith and consecrated the land by raising his lowly altar to the Lord who had appeared to him . Here was his witness to the ...
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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