Illustrations of Biblical Literature Exhibiting the History and Fate of the Sacred Writings ...: Including Biographical Notices of Translators and Other ... Biblical Scholars, Volume 1Carlton, 1856 - Bible |
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... Writing - Ancient Manuscripts . A DIVINE REVELATION is indispensably necessary to man , to in- struct him in the nature and perfections of the Deity ; to acquaint him with the history of his own creation ; to explain to him his moral ...
... Writing - Ancient Manuscripts . A DIVINE REVELATION is indispensably necessary to man , to in- struct him in the nature and perfections of the Deity ; to acquaint him with the history of his own creation ; to explain to him his moral ...
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... writing has been referred by many learned men , and Moses has been considered as instructed in the knowledge of alphabetical characters , by divine revelation . Cle- mens Alexandrinus informs us , ( Stromat , lib . i , ) that Eupolemus ...
... writing has been referred by many learned men , and Moses has been considered as instructed in the knowledge of alphabetical characters , by divine revelation . Cle- mens Alexandrinus informs us , ( Stromat , lib . i , ) that Eupolemus ...
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... writing , and the most zealous supporters of the ante- mosaic origin of letters , can only offer plausible ... writing , to distinguish it from symboli- * Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing , p . 41 ...
... writing , and the most zealous supporters of the ante- mosaic origin of letters , can only offer plausible ... writing , to distinguish it from symboli- * Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing , p . 41 ...
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... writing , the histories of ancient times had never reached us ; and the necessary intercourses of friendship and business must have been greatly retarded in general , and in many cases wholly obstructed . Without it , those living ...
... writing , the histories of ancient times had never reached us ; and the necessary intercourses of friendship and business must have been greatly retarded in general , and in many cases wholly obstructed . Without it , those living ...
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... writing of the Egyptians may , therefore , be reasonably supposed to have been one source of the idolatrous worship with which the Israelites were infected at the time of their coming out of Egypt ; for even as late as the time of ...
... writing of the Egyptians may , therefore , be reasonably supposed to have been one source of the idolatrous worship with which the Israelites were infected at the time of their coming out of Egypt ; for even as late as the time of ...
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