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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... render the expositions as they thought more intelligible ) used such expressions as would accommodate the phrase to the places where they wrote , which did not only many times per- vert the text , but often rendered the sense ob- scure ...
... render the expositions as they thought more intelligible ) used such expressions as would accommodate the phrase to the places where they wrote , which did not only many times per- vert the text , but often rendered the sense ob- scure ...
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... rendered acceptable to the scholar , and those who have inclination to consult the sources from whence the information it contains is drawn , the authorities in most in- stances have been very particularly inserted . It must however be ...
... rendered acceptable to the scholar , and those who have inclination to consult the sources from whence the information it contains is drawn , the authorities in most in- stances have been very particularly inserted . It must however be ...
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... render it an arduous task for an individual to ac- complish . Without presuming to suppose that I have always succeeded in ascertaining the true meaning of those difficult texts which are brought forward , I have done the best which I ...
... render it an arduous task for an individual to ac- complish . Without presuming to suppose that I have always succeeded in ascertaining the true meaning of those difficult texts which are brought forward , I have done the best which I ...
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... rendered propi- tious by this particular mode of sacrifice , confined to the nations which were more immediately contiguous to the territories of Israel . We learn from Homer , that a whole hecatomb of firstling lambs was no uncommon ...
... rendered propi- tious by this particular mode of sacrifice , confined to the nations which were more immediately contiguous to the territories of Israel . We learn from Homer , that a whole hecatomb of firstling lambs was no uncommon ...
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... render sitting there disagreeable . The same inconvenience might arise also from its wetness . It was certainly a very common practice ; and as it ap- pears from the instance of Jacob , a very ancient one . HARMER , vol . iii . p . 215 ...
... render sitting there disagreeable . The same inconvenience might arise also from its wetness . It was certainly a very common practice ; and as it ap- pears from the instance of Jacob , a very ancient one . HARMER , vol . iii . p . 215 ...
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