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2401 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 26.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… and choice. Thus only could he be fitted or a calling which required such entire self-denial and self-sacrifice.However reasonable and evident these details …
2402 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 26.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… their choice ( Matthew 8:20 ) and before His disciples the absolute necessity of willing self-denial ( Luke 14:26 ), did Elisha endure, as must every one who is to do …
2403 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 57.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… deliberate choice of a course in direct opposition to the Will of God. For these two elements are always combined in manner to us inexplicable, yet very really …
2404 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 172.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… their choice. We mark, as significant synchronisms with the reign of Jehoram, the building of Carthage, and that the throne of Tyre was occupied by the brother …
2405 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 187.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… their choice ( ver. 4 ) show that their inclination was in favor of the old regime, while their fears dictated submission to the usurper. So Jehu had judged wisely …
2406 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 66.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ), the choice proved singularly happy. To adapt the language of the prophet Amos 9:11, which, as mostly all prophetic announcements of the Messianic future, takes …
2407 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 149.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… a choice in that which from any point of view implied direct Divine interposition. For evidently Hezekiah asked for such “a sign” as would be a pledge to him …
2408 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 150.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of it, “either in the depth or in the height above” ( Isaiah 7:11 ), so here a similar alternative was presented to Hezekiah. As Ahaz in his trust in natural …
2409 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 180.5 (Alfred Edersheim)
… popular choice of Jehoahaz was largely influenced by his opposition to Egypt. Of his brief reign of three months and, according to Josephus, ten days, we only …
2410 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 189.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… . His choice had fallen on Mattaniah (“the gift of Jehovah”), whose name was changed into Zedekiah (“the righteousness of Jehovah”).As that of Eliakim had been changed …
2411 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 195.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of either going to Babylon, where all honorable provision should be made for him, or of settling in any part of the country. With true patriotic feeling …
2412 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 28.4 (John Foxe)
… the choice of a successor declared for Stanislaus, and he succeeded to the prelacy.
2413 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 120.8 (John Foxe)
… the choice which the consistory and magistrates made of him, with the consent of the people, to be one of their ministers, and professor of divinity. He wanted …
2414 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 122.2 (John Foxe)
… free choice which is made of me by Him. With my whole heart I embrace His mercy, through which all my sins are covered, for Christ’s sake, and for the sake of His …
2415 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 213.4 (John Foxe)
… in choice company with Christian people he enjoyed relaxation. Persistent, laborious love for men’s souls, steadfastness, and tranquillity of spirit were …
2416 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 3.21 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… the choice and ordination of bishops, presbyters, and deacons, in the Christian church.
2417 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 3.51 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… the choice of Christian bishops, priests, and deacons; as the Apostolical Constitutions inform us, B. II. ch. 3.
2418 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 3.54 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… of choice myrrh, an equal quantity of cassia, and half the foregoing weight of cinnamon and calamus (this last is a sort of sweet spice); to beat them small, and …
2419 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 6.29 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… their choice, whether they would cut off a small member of their body, or universally perish However, the Gileadites were so affrighted at these offers, that …
2420 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 6.34 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… your choice of kingly government, I will so dispose him that he shall declare this very plainly to you by strange signals; for what none of you ever saw here …