Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations and Especially the Jews, Therein Alluded To. Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Nide 1C. Whittingham and sold by Williams and Smith, 1807 |
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Sivu x
... they indulged a laudable curiosity in collecting information on general subjects , they did not neglect sacred literature . By their industry the geography , natural history , religious ceremonies , and miscel- laneous customs X PREFACE .
... they indulged a laudable curiosity in collecting information on general subjects , they did not neglect sacred literature . By their industry the geography , natural history , religious ceremonies , and miscel- laneous customs X PREFACE .
Sivu xi
... ceremonies , and miscel- laneous customs of the Bible and the eastern nations have been compared and explained , and that essentially to the advantage of the former . But with regard to these writers it must be observed , that many ...
... ceremonies , and miscel- laneous customs of the Bible and the eastern nations have been compared and explained , and that essentially to the advantage of the former . But with regard to these writers it must be observed , that many ...
Sivu 14
... ceremony had some relation to their believing the promise of God , to bless all the nations of the earth , by means of one that was to descend from Abraham . HARMER , vol . iv . p . 477 . No. 14. xxvii . 39. Dew of Heaven . ] Egypt ...
... ceremony had some relation to their believing the promise of God , to bless all the nations of the earth , by means of one that was to descend from Abraham . HARMER , vol . iv . p . 477 . No. 14. xxvii . 39. Dew of Heaven . ] Egypt ...
Sivu 16
... ceremonies incumbent upon the priests of these stone deities , according to Tavernier , is to anoint them daily with odoriferous oils : a circumstance which immediately brings to our remembrance the similar practice of Jacob , who ...
... ceremonies incumbent upon the priests of these stone deities , according to Tavernier , is to anoint them daily with odoriferous oils : a circumstance which immediately brings to our remembrance the similar practice of Jacob , who ...
Sivu 22
... ceremony is very ancient , and is frequently mentioned in scripture . Levi ( Rites and Ceremonies of the Jews , p . 174. ) says , it was performed in the following man- ner : " they take a knife , and holding the blade down- wards , do ...
... ceremony is very ancient , and is frequently mentioned in scripture . Levi ( Rites and Ceremonies of the Jews , p . 174. ) says , it was performed in the following man- ner : " they take a knife , and holding the blade down- wards , do ...
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Abyssinia Æneid agreeable Aleppo alluded allusion amongst ancient apostle appears Arabs bread called camel caravanserais carried ceremony Chardin says chres Christ circumstance cloth common court covered custom dead death deities describes Diodorus Siculus DODDRIDGE earth East eastern Egypt Egyptian expression Ezekiel feast feet fire frequently gate give Greeks ground hand HARMER hath head heathens Hebrew Herodotus Hist honour horse Iliad Isaiah Israel Israelites Jerusalem Jews Judea kind king Lord manner MAUNDRELL mentioned Mingrelia mountain nations observed occasion passage Persian person Pococke practice present prince probably prophet Psalm rabbins referred remarkable Romans sacred sacrifice salt scribes scriptures seal seems Septuagint sepulchres servants shekels shew signifies Sir John Chardin sometimes sort speaking stone supposed Syria temple thee thing thou tion Trav Travels trees Turks unto vessel walls wine women words writing
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Sivu 311 - And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Sivu 66 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Sivu 243 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed ; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Sivu 376 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Sivu 286 - And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Sivu 310 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Sivu 222 - This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it ; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
Sivu 141 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened. And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low...
Sivu 398 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads ; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Sivu 297 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.