Search for: use of time
51981 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 …
51982 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 …
51983 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 …
51984 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 …
51985 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 …
51986 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 …
51987 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 …
51988 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 …
51989 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 …
51990 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 …
51991 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.
51992 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 …
51993 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 …
51994 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 …
51995 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 …
51996 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 …
51997 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 …
51998 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 …
51999 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 …
52000 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 …