Lectures on Jewish Antiquities: Delivered at Harvard University in Cambridge, A.D. 1802 & 1803 |
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... whole animal and vegetable creation for his service did not rest the property and jurisdiction of it in him only , but was intended as a common grant to the human race . But if we admitted that Adam pos- sessed such authority , this ...
... whole animal and vegetable creation for his service did not rest the property and jurisdiction of it in him only , but was intended as a common grant to the human race . But if we admitted that Adam pos- sessed such authority , this ...
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... whole proceeding was especially fitted to impress the Is- raelites with a perpetual abhorrence and dread of those crimes , which they had been the instruments of punish- ing , and to secure their fidelity to that Being , whose wonderful ...
... whole proceeding was especially fitted to impress the Is- raelites with a perpetual abhorrence and dread of those crimes , which they had been the instruments of punish- ing , and to secure their fidelity to that Being , whose wonderful ...
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... whole by the destruction of its several parts . Their benevolence operated in the first place towards themselves and their own nation . In this view the laws of Moses were excellent . Far from encouraging a narrow or malignant spirit ...
... whole by the destruction of its several parts . Their benevolence operated in the first place towards themselves and their own nation . In this view the laws of Moses were excellent . Far from encouraging a narrow or malignant spirit ...
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... whole plan of their government was fitted to check the views of foreign ambition . For it circumscribed them within the limits of a small coun- try . It parcelled them out into several tribes it assign- ed to each its peculiar and ...
... whole plan of their government was fitted to check the views of foreign ambition . For it circumscribed them within the limits of a small coun- try . It parcelled them out into several tribes it assign- ed to each its peculiar and ...
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... whole Jewish con- stitution holds up an intelligent , immense , and almighty spirit as the sole object of homage ; a spirit , who can- not be represented by any visible likeness . Thirdly , while the gods of the heathen were limited and ...
... whole Jewish con- stitution holds up an intelligent , immense , and almighty spirit as the sole object of homage ; a spirit , who can- not be represented by any visible likeness . Thirdly , while the gods of the heathen were limited and ...
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Page 82 - And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites : and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life : that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 292 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 181 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 21 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 15 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 304 - And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 305 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 252 - BLOW ye the trumpet, blow ! The gladly solemn sound, Let all the nations know, To earth's remotest bound, The year of jubilee is come : Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.
Page 293 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 133 - And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.