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64501 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 368.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… predictive character are never mere repetitions of those which preceded them. Each has its own distinctive nature and quality. It emphasizes particular …
64502 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 369.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… different characters and belonging to different classes, his function in one given sphere or direction. Thus the books of Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Malachi exhibit …
64503 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 369.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… remarkable character, and hence called a prophet ( Matthew 24:15 ) in the same general sense as David is in Acts 2:30, nevertheless did not exercise the prophetic …
64504 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 371.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… of characters now drawn up to view. Beginning back at the fourteenth chapter of Genesis, we find evidence of the existence of the leader, Chedorlaomer, of the …
64505 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 374.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… beautiful character deserves no more credit for its moral attractiveness than a pansy for its varied hues. The history of men is like the history of plants …
64506 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 377.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… theocratic character and aim, which links his name with the mightiest moral movements of the world; and when I speak of the church, I mean the Church of Rome …
64507 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 378.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… his character-the overmastering love of domination. Barrow styles him, “this vixenly Pope,” and although the use of the epithet is rather strange, we may understand …
64508 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 381.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… his character, and, although attempts have been made by some writers of more zeal than discretion to wash out these blots, there they remain. I mean (1) his subservient …
64509 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 382.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… spiritual character, but as a great landowner. He did what he could to provide for the defense of the country, and he took it on himself to negotiate a peace with …
64510 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 386.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… contemptible character of the sovereign, John, he forced his nominee, Stephen Langton, into the primacy, in disregard of the rights of the national church …
64511 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 387.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… lofty character, which inspired universal respect, he possessed all the qualities of an astute political intriguer. He was lucky in his opportunities, as …
64512 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 388.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… the character of his opponent. Philip retaliated by prohibiting the exportation of gold and silver out of France, thus depriving Boniface of an important …
64513 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 391.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… Testament characters. A strong light is sometimes thrown upon the social evils of the time, of which Paul and Juvenal wrote so sternly. The child, the prodigal …
64514 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 397.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… of character probably identify the people intended with the European Scythians, who were the dominant race in the tract between the Caucasus and Mesopotamia …
64515 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 398.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… Thracian character belonged to the Phrygians and Mysians, whose very names were, moreover, mere variants of those borne by purely Thracian tribes, viz., the …
64516 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 402.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… aggressive character assigned to Apries by the Greeks to find that he at once accepted Zedekiah’s offer, and prepared to bear his part in the war. “Pharaoh’s …
64517 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 405.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… the character of the Pharisees caused them to be reprehended by our Saviour with the utmost severity, even more than he rebuked the Sadducees, who, although …
64518 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 415.1 (General Conference of SDA)
Prophecy, Character of.—It is opposed to the nature of God to force men to believe. He hides himself in history, as well as in nature, that he may be found of them …
64519 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 416.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… , Miraculous Character of.—Prophecy is a miracle of knowledge, a declaration, or description, or representation of something future, beyond the power of human …
64520 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 417.9 (General Conference of SDA)
… and character of nations, for over two thousand years, are matters altogether too vast to be manipulated by men. Such a notion is clearly absurd. What! did Babylonian …