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51961 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 50.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… time of Julius Casar, about fifty years before the Christian era; but the translation was preserved by the numerous transcripts taken for the use of the …
51962 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 52.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… of the Samaritans as an inheritance from the ten tribes whom they succeeded; (2) That it was introduced by Manasseh at the time of the foundation of the Samaritan …
51963 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 52.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… edition of the Psalter was a simple revision of the Itala. The revision is known as the Psalterium Romanum, and was used up to the time of Pius V in the Roman Church …
51964 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 53.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… common use of the older version and the carelessness of the scribes, led to the serious depravation of the translation. In process of time it was generally …
51965 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 56.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… , 7 times a day do I praise Thee; and, the word of God is like silver purified 7 times. Isaiah says, The light of the sun shall yet be 7 fold, as the light of 7 days; Micah …
51966 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 61.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… boss of metal, so called from its resemblance in form to a bubble floating upon water (Lat. bullire, to boil). In course of time the term came to be applied to the …
51967 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 62.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… , Methods of Reckoning Hours of.—The time when this [the trial of Jesus] occurred, is fixed by John, “about the sixth hour.” This is the only note of time for the trial …
51968 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 63.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… setting of the sun, is connected with the imperfection of the measures of time then in use, which for a long period could only have been employed for the determination …
51969 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 63.2 (General Conference of SDA)
The use of hours of variable length was not generally laid aside until the invention of clockwork in the twelfth century. Some time, however, before the birth …
51970 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 …
51971 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 …
51972 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 …
51973 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 …
51974 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 …
51975 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 …
51976 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 …
51977 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 …
51978 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 …
51979 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 …
51980 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 …