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61 Beginning of the End, p. 64 (Ellen Gould White)
Polygamy Brings Sorrow
62 Beginning of the End, p. 96.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… of polygamy—this terrible evil tends to dry up the springs of love, and its influence weakens the most sacred ties. The jealousy of the several mothers had …
63 Beginning of the End, p. 164.5 (Ellen Gould White)
Polygamy was one of the sins that brought the wrath of God upon the pre-Flood world, yet after the Flood it again became widespread. It was Satan’s studied effort …
64 Royalty and Ruin, p. 21.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… accepted polygamy. In the lives of some, idolatry of the worst kind replaced the pure religious service God had instituted.
65 The Attack, p. 42.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… , added polygamy. Abel had led a pastoral life, and the descendants of Seth followed the same course, counting themselves “strangers and pilgrims on the earth …
66 The Attack, p. 49.4 (Ellen Gould White)
Polygamy had been introduced early, though it was contrary to God’s plan. The Lord gave one wife to Adam, but after the fall people chose to follow their own …
67 The Attack, p. 84.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… wife. Polygamy was no longer regarded as a sin, but it was a violation of the law of God and was fatal to the sacredness and peace of the family. Abraham’s marriage …
68 The Attack, p. 85 (Ellen Gould White)
Polygamy Brings Sorrow
69 The Attack, p. 129.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… of polygamy—this terrible evil tends to dry up the springs of love, and its influence weakens the most sacred ties. The jealousy of the several mothers had …
70 The Attack, p. 222.4 (Ellen Gould White)
Polygamy was one of the sins that brought the wrath of God upon the pre-Flood world, yet after the Flood it again became widespread. It was Satan’s studied effort …
71 The Promise, p. 26.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… accepted polygamy. In the lives of some, idolatry of the worst kind replaced the pure religious service God had instituted.
72 My Journey to Life, Step 14—Marriage, p. 5.1 (Ellen Gould White)
• Polygamy. Many of the biblical family structures were distortions of God’s original plan including polygamy, which has brought untold suffering, power …
73 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BIGAMY.2 (Noah Webster)
The crime of having two wives at once. But the term is ordinarily used as synonymous with Polygamy, and may be more justly defined, the crime of having a plurality of wives.
74 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLYGAMIST.1 (Noah Webster)
POLYGAMIST, n. [See Polygamy .] A person who maintains the lawfulness of polygamy.
75 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLYGAMOUS.1 (Noah Webster)
POLYGAMOUS, a. Consisting of polygamy.
76 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLYGAMOUS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Inclined to polygamy; having a plurality of wives.
77 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLYGAMY.1 (Noah Webster)
… for polygamy. Such is the fact in christian countries. But polygamy is allowed in some countries, as in Turkey.
78 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEGREGATE.3 (Noah Webster)
Segregate polygamy, (Polygamia segregata, Linne,) a mode of inflorescence, when several florets comprehended within a common calyx, are furnished also with their proper perianths. Martyn.
79 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUPERFLUOUS.5 (Noah Webster)
Superfluous polygamy, (Polygamia superflua,) a kind of inflorescence or compound flower, in which the florets of the disk are hermaphrodite and fertile, and …
80 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 310.1 (Francis D. Nichol)
… to polygamy and makes this statement: “The more men multiplied wives to themselves, the more they increased in wickedness and unhappiness.”—Page 63.