Human Nature in the BibleC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 331 pagine |
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Pagina x
... never been sur- passed . But the crowning achievement of those spacious times was the Authorised Translation of the Bible , which appeared in 1611. Three centuries of English literature followed ; but although they have been crowded ...
... never been sur- passed . But the crowning achievement of those spacious times was the Authorised Translation of the Bible , which appeared in 1611. Three centuries of English literature followed ; but although they have been crowded ...
Pagina 13
... never know ; but he regretted it , for he remarked to his two wives : " I have slain a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt . " Human responsibility was the law that Cain broke : his surly remark , " Am I my brother's keeper ...
... never know ; but he regretted it , for he remarked to his two wives : " I have slain a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt . " Human responsibility was the law that Cain broke : his surly remark , " Am I my brother's keeper ...
Pagina 17
... never know . No child brought up on the Bible — as all children should be ever forgets the happy moment when the waters " asswaged " ; and " in the tenth month , on the first day of the month , were the tops of the mountains seen ...
... never know . No child brought up on the Bible — as all children should be ever forgets the happy moment when the waters " asswaged " ; and " in the tenth month , on the first day of the month , were the tops of the mountains seen ...
Pagina 18
... never was favourably impressed by Noah's cursing his own son ; of course he was in a bad temper when he woke up and probably had a desperate headache ; but if he had said , " Lord , be merciful to me a sinner ! " I should have had more ...
... never was favourably impressed by Noah's cursing his own son ; of course he was in a bad temper when he woke up and probably had a desperate headache ; but if he had said , " Lord , be merciful to me a sinner ! " I should have had more ...
Pagina 23
... never in a hurry under the sun ; both seller and purchaser rejoice in the artistry of bargaining and stretch it out as long as possible . Each understands the other's simulated frankness . So when Abraham first begged Jehovah to spare ...
... never in a hurry under the sun ; both seller and purchaser rejoice in the artistry of bargaining and stretch it out as long as possible . Each understands the other's simulated frankness . So when Abraham first begged Jehovah to spare ...
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Pagina 35 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Pagina 155 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Pagina 35 - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee ! 2 Though, like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone ; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee, — Nearer to Thee...
Pagina 321 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Pagina 298 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Pagina 137 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Pagina 91 - And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites : and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over ; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite ? If he said, Nay ; then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth : and he said Sibboleth : for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan : and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Pagina 328 - Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty." "Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:" "Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his hariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Pagina 22 - And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine : and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God...
Pagina 217 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown.