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2581 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 162.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Ark of the Covenant, and kept there “for a token.” Nor was even the choice of the almond, which blossoms first of trees, without its deep meaning. For the almond, which …
2582 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 170.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… —those of rain, of children, and of raising to life. With special application of Hosea 12:13 to Moses and Elijah, Jewish tradition traces a very minute and instructive …
2583 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 22.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… preservation of the infant prince Joash. This fulfillment of the Divine promise concerning the permanence of the house of David ( 2 Samuel 7:12-16 ) must have …
2584 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 200.10 (John Foxe)
… trunk of a tree, with a branch at top. Over this branch hung one arm, which principally supported the weight of the body; and one of the legs was turned up, and fastened …
2585 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 1.6 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… sorts of trees; and that among them was the tree of life, and another of knowledge, whereby was to be known what was good and evil; and that when he brought Adam …
2586 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 1.8 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… , out of a malicious intention, to taste of the tree of knowledge, telling them, that in that tree was the knowledge of good and evil; which knowledge, when they …
2587 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 4.73 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… some of the fruits of the olive-trees, when they gather them, and leave them to be partaken of by those that have none of their own; for the advantage arising from …
2588 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 8.96 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… leave of them, he followed him, and became the disciple and the servant of Elijah all the days of his life And thus have I despatched the affairs in which this …
2589 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 10.59 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… walking, of stone, and made it resemble mountains, and built it so that it might be planted with all sorts of trees. He also erected what was called a pensile paradise …
2590 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 13.92 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… law of the Jews required that at the feast of tabernacles every one should have branches of the palm tree and citron tree; which thing we have elsewhere related …
2591 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 18.12 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… plantation of palm trees, and their fruit is excellent in its kind After him came Annius Rufus, under whom died Caesar, the second emperor of the Romans, the …
2592 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 1.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… new life, is the goodly tree which has sprung from them. We shall speak of the seed and then of the tree, so small at its beginning, but destined one day to cover …
2593 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 58.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… fruit of which is an enlightened understanding and a holy life, Religion, under the corrupting influences of power and riches, was being transformed into …
2594 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 183.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… pains of labor, she was delivered of a son beneath an oak-tree in the field. The child grew to manhood, adopted the profession of arms, distinguished himself …
2595 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 442.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… bitter tree, to bestow upon him a free forgiveness, and life everlasting. That look enkindles love. That love penetrates his whole being, quickening, purifying …
2596 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 505.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… walls of the city without form of trial. There was a Reign of Terror in Bavaria. It was not on those in humble life only that the storm fell; the magistrate on the …
2597 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 157.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… aisle of Paris. Such was the prospect that opened out before the eye of his father, and, it is possible, before his own also at this period of his life. Very grand …
2598 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 182.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… garden of modest dimensions, with its bit of velvet sward, and its trees, old and gnarled, but with life enough in their roots to send along their boughs, in spring …
2599 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 228.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… compromise of its unity for a moment.” It is noteworthy that the publication of the work fell on the mid-year of the Reformer’s life. Twenty-seven years had he …
2600 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 244.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of the little town and of the adjacent country were sleeping soundly, and no one dreamt of the cruel deed that was about to cut short the life of a man …