Abraham: His Life and TimesJames Nisbet et Company, 1886 - 179 páginas |
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... received from his grandfather and father , and during the seventeen years of his life in that country he could impart the family tra- ditions to his sons and grandsons , who would have found no difficulty in committing them to writing ...
... received from his grandfather and father , and during the seventeen years of his life in that country he could impart the family tra- ditions to his sons and grandsons , who would have found no difficulty in committing them to writing ...
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... received mythology was moulded into graceful forms vying with the best creations of Greek and Roman story , yet the mass of men never rose to these higher conceptions . Believing that their own destinies and the forces of nature were ...
... received mythology was moulded into graceful forms vying with the best creations of Greek and Roman story , yet the mass of men never rose to these higher conceptions . Believing that their own destinies and the forces of nature were ...
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... received the greatest care at the 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 ...
... received the greatest care at the 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 ...
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... received with respect and submission . Assuredly , he had had to do battle for the faith before he arrived at this calm maintenance of his religious convictions , and this power of impressing others . In his early home he must have had ...
... received with respect and submission . Assuredly , he had had to do battle for the faith before he arrived at this calm maintenance of his religious convictions , and this power of impressing others . In his early home he must have had ...
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... received his new creed wholly and implicitly , and acknowledged the duties which it imposed upon him . A living faith involves action ; its result is practice . So Abram recognized the moral obligation arising from a more perfect ...
... received his new creed wholly and implicitly , and acknowledged the duties which it imposed upon him . A living faith involves action ; its result is practice . So Abram recognized the moral obligation arising from a more perfect ...
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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