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51621 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 182.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… host of Israel is led by a “pillar of fire” by night, a “pillar of cloud” by day. Eastern armies have from time immemorial been led by “cressets” of fire at night; Alexander …
51622 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 182.3 (General Conference of SDA)
“Egyptian records tell us that at this time the then Pharaoh had had to meet a serious invasion of Libyans and other peoples on the west.” This is probably why he had so weakened his garrisons at Tanis that he only had the chariot corps.
51623 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 187.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… truth of Genesis is given us when we consider the question of climate. Every “age,” from “Silurian times” down to the “recent,” bears witness, through its coral limestones …
51624 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 187.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… same time! Talk about credulity! What, then, becomes of our “one great act of faith,-faith in the uniformity of nature,”-about which we used to hear so much from Professor …
51625 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 188.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… idea of a universal coat of ice has been gradually hushed down by the ridicule of modern geologists, most of whom, as evolutionists, of course cannot believe …
51626 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 195.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… north of Assyria. It is a question whether in ancient times Urartu included the lofty mountainous plateau now known as Armenia. But the point to be emphasized …
51627 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 195.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… mean “time hidden from man,” or “time indefinite.” In our version it is often translated “forever,” and in certain places it may mean “time unmeasured,” “for an age,” or …
51628 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 205.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… some of this light has necessarily been reflected on the book of Genesis. The monuments of Egypt, of Babylonia, and of Assyria have been rescued from their …
51629 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 207.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… of man, as it is popularly understood. The question of how far back in geological time man actually lived, is for us, who have discarded the myth of the successive …
51630 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 211.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… 2,555 times in the Old Testament, and is used in thirty-five out of the thirty-nine books, the exceptions being Canticles, Lamentations, Obadiah, and Esther …
51631 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 212.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… ] is used 204 times of the true God and 18 times of false gods; it occurs in most of the Old Testament books. Its plural form is never used of the true God. An examination …
51632 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 212.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… children of Israel, I AM hath sent me to you.... Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me to you. This is my …
51633 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 213.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… is used thirty-nine times, chiefly in the Psalms, but occurs as early as Genesis 14:18, 19, 29, in connection with Melchizedek, also in the vaticination of Balaam …
51634 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 213.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… conservation of energy is traced to its source. The Rock as a sign of stability and security is used six times of God in Deuteronomy 32, eleven times in the Psalms …
51635 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 215.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… grades of God’s manifestation of himself. There seems to be a measure of truth in this representation of the matter, at least in its general outlines. The name …
51636 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 216.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… fear of its irreverent use. The custom is said to have been founded on a strained interpretation of Leviticus 24:16; and the phrase there used, “The Name” ( Shema …
51637 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 221.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… prophets, of one of its two main supports. The theory was based on two denials,-that writing was used for literary purposes in the time of Moses, and that a legal …
51638 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 223.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… death of Herod and the partition of his kingdom under its proper year. Still a careful combination of notes of time which Josephus has preserved will enable …
51639 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 233.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… Test of Time Applied to.—We do not always see most clearly the things that are nearest to us. Our estimates of contemporaneous matters often need revision …
51640 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 233.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… that time been “delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God,” and entered upon those dateless cycles of bliss …