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... speak of persons be- ing possessed by devils , the devils being cast out , and the sufferers healed , a different word is found . We read Daimonion , -- not t - Diabolos . This word properly signifies insane persons . Hence the decla ...
... speak of persons be- ing possessed by devils , the devils being cast out , and the sufferers healed , a different word is found . We read Daimonion , -- not t - Diabolos . This word properly signifies insane persons . Hence the decla ...
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... speak excellently , in affirming that when good men die , they obtain great honour and dig- nity , and become demons . In another place , he main- tains , that all who die valiantly in war , are admitted into Hesiod's golden generation ...
... speak excellently , in affirming that when good men die , they obtain great honour and dig- nity , and become demons . In another place , he main- tains , that all who die valiantly in war , are admitted into Hesiod's golden generation ...
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... speaking of a man , whom a violent disease had wasted , says , a hateful demon had entered into him . From this general opinion , epilepsy obtain-- ed the name of sacred disease . Like the Jews , the Romans believed in possession , but ...
... speaking of a man , whom a violent disease had wasted , says , a hateful demon had entered into him . From this general opinion , epilepsy obtain-- ed the name of sacred disease . Like the Jews , the Romans believed in possession , but ...
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... speak of persons possessed of devils , the origin- al word is daimonion , and not diabolos , which should not therefore have been translated devil , nor devils . But it appears to have been an early and much agitated question among the ...
... speak of persons possessed of devils , the origin- al word is daimonion , and not diabolos , which should not therefore have been translated devil , nor devils . But it appears to have been an early and much agitated question among the ...
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... speaking of the popular opinions of the age and country of Job , in his Connexions , vol . 1. pp . 185—6 . as quoted by Mr. Balfour , says : " Di- rectly opposite to these were the Magians , another sect , who had their original in the ...
... speaking of the popular opinions of the age and country of Job , in his Connexions , vol . 1. pp . 185—6 . as quoted by Mr. Balfour , says : " Di- rectly opposite to these were the Magians , another sect , who had their original in the ...
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Page 196 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 137 - Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel : behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost : we are cut off for our parts.
Page 135 - Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world : but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Page 158 - O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave : thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Page 292 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him...
Page 177 - Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Page 180 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Page 132 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises ; whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 131 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: "so the LORD alone did lead him, and there •was no strange god with him.
Page 287 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.