The Signs of the Times: As Denoted by the Fulfilment of Historical Predictions : Traced Down from the Babylonish Captivity to the Present Time, Volume 1Jonathan Leavitt, 1832 - Bible |
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... Mahomet ; each revelation is suited to the emergency of his policy or passion ; and all contra- diction is removed by the saving maxim , that any text of scripture is abrogated or modified by any subsequent 34 VISION OF THE RAM AND HE ...
... Mahomet ; each revelation is suited to the emergency of his policy or passion ; and all contra- diction is removed by the saving maxim , that any text of scripture is abrogated or modified by any subsequent 34 VISION OF THE RAM AND HE ...
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... Mahomet , the sacred volume was collected and published by his friend and successor , Abubeker . " * During the life of Mahomet , the Koran thus existed only in sen- tences . And these also were dark , forming an " end- less incoherent ...
... Mahomet , the sacred volume was collected and published by his friend and successor , Abubeker . " * During the life of Mahomet , the Koran thus existed only in sen- tences . And these also were dark , forming an " end- less incoherent ...
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... Mahomet soon gave the law to millions . The roving Arabs were at- tracted to his standard by the hope of plunder ... Mahomet . * Gibbon's Hist . vol . ix . p . 255 . prefixed to De Ryer's Alcoran , p . 5 . † Life of Mahomet , Gibbon's ...
... Mahomet soon gave the law to millions . The roving Arabs were at- tracted to his standard by the hope of plunder ... Mahomet . * Gibbon's Hist . vol . ix . p . 255 . prefixed to De Ryer's Alcoran , p . 5 . † Life of Mahomet , Gibbon's ...
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... Mahomet and his suc- cessors have to be ranked among the greatest con- querors . So wonderful was the destruction which they wrought , the prosperity which attended on their arms and their creed , and the success of the arts which they ...
... Mahomet and his suc- cessors have to be ranked among the greatest con- querors . So wonderful was the destruction which they wrought , the prosperity which attended on their arms and their creed , and the success of the arts which they ...
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... Mahomet supplanted the ministers of Jesus , who had become lords over God's heritage , and who taught their people to bow down to stocks . The place of the sanctuary was cast down . The cross was displaced , and the crescent was planted ...
... Mahomet supplanted the ministers of Jesus , who had become lords over God's heritage , and who taught their people to bow down to stocks . The place of the sanctuary was cast down . The cross was displaced , and the crescent was planted ...
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Page 177 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Page 111 - Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
Page 12 - Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors ; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Page 85 - And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Page 15 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
Page 333 - And the four Angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
Page 258 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Page 171 - After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
Page 253 - And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Page 259 - And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.