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... Bible , developes its harmonies , and brings it into closer union with our understandings and our af- fections . At the head of expositors of the book of Psalms , at the head of those who have shown to Christians their peculiar interest ...
... Bible , developes its harmonies , and brings it into closer union with our understandings and our af- fections . At the head of expositors of the book of Psalms , at the head of those who have shown to Christians their peculiar interest ...
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... Bible translation without a substantial difference , and sometimes with some loss of vigour and dignity ; that in some instances he has changed the style of expression , without necessity , for a structure less harmonious ; and ...
... Bible translation without a substantial difference , and sometimes with some loss of vigour and dignity ; that in some instances he has changed the style of expression , without necessity , for a structure less harmonious ; and ...
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... Bible : " Break thou the arm of the wicked , and the evil man : seek out his wickedness till thou find none . " Here the translator states the text to be corruptly written ; the words of which are a ww . In three of the MSS . of Dr ...
... Bible : " Break thou the arm of the wicked , and the evil man : seek out his wickedness till thou find none . " Here the translator states the text to be corruptly written ; the words of which are a ww . In three of the MSS . of Dr ...
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... Bible , renders it , " O my soul , thou hast said unto the LORD , " adding the words " O my soul , " and missing the beauty of the prosopopoeia , and the whole scope of the Psalm . The concluding part of the verse is not very ...
... Bible , renders it , " O my soul , thou hast said unto the LORD , " adding the words " O my soul , " and missing the beauty of the prosopopoeia , and the whole scope of the Psalm . The concluding part of the verse is not very ...
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... Bible , he must have thought with him that the plural number is only used emphatically , according to the Hebrew idiom , to signify the Most Holy One . However this be , it is evident , that it was a prophecy of the particular ...
... Bible , he must have thought with him that the plural number is only used emphatically , according to the Hebrew idiom , to signify the Most Holy One . However this be , it is evident , that it was a prophecy of the particular ...
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Page 56 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 5 - Now these be the last words of David : "David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue...
Page 20 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Page 426 - ... and account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 9 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Page 285 - Good Lord, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 101 - Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 62 - Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things ; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power ; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Here you stand, Adore, and worship, when you know it not ; Pious beyond the intention of your thought ; Devout above the meaning of your will...
Page 130 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Page 111 - But Loyola, full of the ideas of implicit obedience which he had derived from his military profession, appointed that the government of his order should be purely monarchical. A general, chosen for life by deputies from the several provinces, possessed power that was supreme and independent, extending to every person, and to every case.