A History of the Jewish People During the Maccabean and Roman Periods: (including New Testament Times)

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Smith, Elder & Company, 1900 - 320 стор.
 

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Сторінка 82 - For she is a breath of the power of God, and a clear effluence of the glory of the Almighty ; therefore can nothing defiled find entrance into her. For she is an effulgence from everlasting light, and an unspotted mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness.
Сторінка 282 - The most able men — from the East and the West, from the North and the South...
Сторінка 74 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Сторінка 23 - Though all the nations that are under the king's dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments: 20 Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers.
Сторінка 160 - ... sides, he many times changed his opinion : after which, he deliberated upon it with such of his friends as were by, among whom was Asinius Pollio; enumerating the calamities which the passage of that river would bring upon the world, and the reflections that might be made upon it by posterity. At last, upon some sudden impulse, bidding adieu to his reasonings, and plunging into the abyss of futurity, in the words of those who embark in doubtful and arduous enterprises, he cried out, — "The...
Сторінка 84 - For thou lovest all the things that are, And abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: For never wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it. And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? Or been preserved, if not called by thee? But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O lord, thou lover of souls.
Сторінка 35 - Nehemiah ; and how he, founding a library, gathered together the books about the kings and prophets, and the books of David, and letters of kings about sacred gifts. And in like manner Judas also gathered together for us all those writings that had been scattered by reason of the war that befell, and they are still with us.
Сторінка viii - The book is, as the author says, ' ' a contribution toward the interpretation of the Gospels in so far as a knowledge of the faiths [ ? ] , conditions, and aims of Judaism can be interpretative of the form and method of the activity of Jesus.
Сторінка 22 - I will shew myself such an one as mine age requireth, and leave a notable example to such as be young to die willingly and courageously for the honourable and holy laws.

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