Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Scripture Terms which Have Changed Their Popular Meaning, Or are No Longer in General UseHarper, 1876 - 106 pages |
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Achish Acts xxvii adjective All-to Anglo-Saxon BACON'S Essays Bdellium Bible Brigandine Broadway Tabernacle bruit chapmen charger Choler Chron chrysolite Cloth common cunning daysman Dayspring denote derived Deut Epistle Ezek Familiar spirit Gospels Greek Greek word Half Calf hath Hebrew alphabet Hebrew word hence John John vii Josh Kings LATIMER'S Sermons Latin literal meaning LORD BACON Luke xiv LYMAN ABBOTT manner Maps and Illustrations Mark Matt meant meat minister modern sense modern usage nephews noun obsolete occupy offense old English old writers original sense Palestine passage Plutarch properly Prov Psalm rendered Scriptures seventeenth century SHAKSPEARE shamefastness Sheep signifies skill stumbling tabernacles term Testament thee thou tion unto Usury verb verse viii word is translated word meaning word now written xvii xviii xxii xxiv xxvi xxxi
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Page 45 - I will declare thy name unto my brethren : in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Page 39 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Page 96 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 67 - And he answered, and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things : and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought. . 13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
Page 15 - Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute...
Page 22 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 60 - And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Page 11 - If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the...
Page 48 - To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Page 18 - And one of the elders answered, saying unto me ; What are these which are arrayed in white robes ? and whence came they? And I said unto him ; Sir thou knowest. And he said to me ; These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.