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51601 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 64.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… frequently used with great latitude in the Scriptures, and sometimes implies the space of time occupied by a whole watch. Matthew 25:13; 26:40; Mark 14:37; Luke …
51602 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 64.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… us, the Jews in his time did, from the ninth hour until the eleventh. Hence the law, requiring the paschal lamb to be sacrificed “at even, at the going down of the …
51603 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 66.17 (General Conference of SDA)
… ever used, or even known, the week of seven days); each day into twenty-four hours, twelve hours of actual day time and twelve hours of actual night time. The hours …
51604 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 68.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… the time of Augustus, the first seven letters of the alphabet were employed in the same way to indicate the days of this new division of time. In fact, fragmentary …
51605 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 70.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… later times determined by actual observation of the new moon. The intercalation of a month was in late times determined by the Sanhedrin, but whether that …
51606 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 81.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… Apostolic Times.—We, therefore, proceed to observe that we possess an uninterrupted series of writings from the apostolic times to the present day; and that …
51607 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 87.2 (General Conference of SDA)
Censorship of Books.—Numerous editions of the Index [ Librorum Prohibitorum ] have appeared from time to time. That issued under Benedict XIV (Rome, 1744) contains …
51608 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 91.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… the time of the author. By its aid the date of any astronomical or other occurrence of that period can be stated as in such and such a year of such and such a king …
51609 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 151.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… was used and known in and before Maccabean times, meets this theory as fully as that of the rejecters of Daniel altogether. The question, whether it was worthy …
51610 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 154.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… product of Maccabee times. The language then is one mark of genuineness, set by God on the book. Rationalism must rebel, as it has rebelled; but it dare not now …
51611 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 157.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… prophesy of future events, as did the other prophets, but he also determined the time of their accomplishment; and while the prophets used to foretell misfortunes …
51612 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 158.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… the time of sojourn in Egypt was foretold to Abraham, and that this fact was known and remembered at the time of the exodus, and was appealed to, notwithstanding …
51613 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 164.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… tranquillity of our times; that each may have the privilege to select and to worship whatsoever divinity he pleases. But this has been done by us, that we might …
51614 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 165.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… times. But that the purpose of this our ordinance and liberality may be extended to the knowledge of all, it is expected that these things written by us should …
51615 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 170.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… possibility of the reality of Haman’s decree, because of the long interval of time which was allowed the Jews before the arrival of the day of their execution …
51616 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 176.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… result of some new combination of factors which can be reproduced at will by using the same method of combination and segregation. The real scientific test …
51617 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 178.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… a time, only at the expense of their fellows’ lives.... A few of the Christians of the present day still accept only that part of the theory which gives us a cooling …
51618 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 180.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… matter of time is in no way the essential idea in the problem. The question of how much time was occupied in the work of creation is of no importance, neither …
51619 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 181.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… of Babel; while all nations have not only traditions of the flood, but of an Edenic beginning; and at this first glimpse we get of human society, they give us in …
51620 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 181.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… , Route of.—It is just here [“at the head of Lake Timsah”] where the land route to Palestine begins, and was so used as a route by the Bedawîn before the days of the present …