Oriental Customs, Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures: By an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Especially the Jews, Therein Alluded to : Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent CriticsWhittingham, 1807 - 431 pages |
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... heathen world ; -- The Canaanites caused their first born to pass through the fire , with a view of appeasing the anger of their false deities ; and one of the kings of Moab is said to have offered up his eldest son as a burnt offering ...
... heathen world ; -- The Canaanites caused their first born to pass through the fire , with a view of appeasing the anger of their false deities ; and one of the kings of Moab is said to have offered up his eldest son as a burnt offering ...
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... heathen records , that the similarity is not merely casual , but that the facts and circumstances thus detailed had been in some way , however remote or traditional , derived from the divine original . The fol- lowing extract from the ...
... heathen records , that the similarity is not merely casual , but that the facts and circumstances thus detailed had been in some way , however remote or traditional , derived from the divine original . The fol- lowing extract from the ...
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... heathens , when they had gathered in all their fruits , to take a kid , and boil it in the dam's milk , and then , in a magical way , to go about and besprinkle with it all their trees , and fields , and gardens , and orchards ...
... heathens , when they had gathered in all their fruits , to take a kid , and boil it in the dam's milk , and then , in a magical way , to go about and besprinkle with it all their trees , and fields , and gardens , and orchards ...
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... heathen author so clearly shews the antiquity and make of poisoned arrows , as what we read in Homer concerning Ulysses , that he went to Ephyra , a city of Thessaly , in order to procure deadly poison for smearing his brazen pointed ...
... heathen author so clearly shews the antiquity and make of poisoned arrows , as what we read in Homer concerning Ulysses , that he went to Ephyra , a city of Thessaly , in order to procure deadly poison for smearing his brazen pointed ...
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... heathens had a conceit that the souls of such persons as had not had the due rites of burial paid them , were not admitted into Hades , but were forced to wander a hun- dred years , a parcel of vagabond ghosts , about the banks of the ...
... heathens had a conceit that the souls of such persons as had not had the due rites of burial paid them , were not admitted into Hades , but were forced to wander a hun- dred years , a parcel of vagabond ghosts , about the banks of the ...
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