A Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Containing an Historical Account of the Persons, a Geographical and Historical Account of the Places, a Literal, Critical, and Systematical Description of Other Objects ... and the Explication of the Appellative Terms, Mentioned in the Writings of the Old and New Testament, the Whole Comprising Whatever Important is Known Concerning the Antiquities of the Hebrew Nation and Church of God, Forming a Sacred Commentary, a Body of Scripture History, Chronology, and Divinity, and Serving in a Great Measure as a Concordance to the Bible, 2. köide

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Cramer, Spear, and Eichbaum, 1811

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Page 427 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Page 135 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 278 - For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish : to the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life.
Page 30 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Page 278 - Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not ; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Page 1 - Description of other Objects, whether Natural, Artificial, Civil, Religious, or Military ; and an Explanation of the Appellative Terms mentioned in the Old and New Testaments By the Rev.
Page 627 - Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Page 623 - He that wandereth out of the way of understanding, shall remain in the congregation of the dead,
Page 355 - God's preserving created things in being is perfectly equivalent to a continued creation, or to his creating those things out of nothing at each moment of their existence. If the continued existence of created things be wholly dependent on God's preservation, then those things would drop into nothing, upon the ceasing of the present moment, without a new exertion of the divine power to cause them to exist in the following moment.
Page 580 - As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.