A Key to the Old Testament and Apocrypha: In which is Given an Account of Their Several Books, Their Contents, and Authors, and of the Times in which They Were Respectively Written

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Messrs. P. Byrne, A. Grueber, W. M'Kenzie, J. Moore and W. Jones, 1792 - 545 páginas
 

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Página 96 - I will raise them up a Prophet, from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth ; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Página 54 - And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire : ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude ; only ye heard a voice. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments ; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Página 54 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire; 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves...
Página 286 - remarkable for its magnificence. Each prophetic writer is distinguished for peculiar beauties ; but their style in general may be characterised as strong, animated, and impressive Its ornaments are derived not from accumulation of epithet, or laboured harmony ; but from the real grandeur of its images, and the majestic force of its expressions. It is varied with striking propriety, and enlivened with quick but easy transitions. Its sudden bursts of eloquence, its earnest warmth, its affecting exhortations...
Página 138 - Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer...
Página 23 - We will not be the dregs of all : seeing other nations have the law of God, which is the law of our faith, written in their own language.
Página 405 - He is the first of the three prophets who flourished among the Jews after their return to their country ; and appears to have been raised up by God to exhort...
Página 406 - For thus faith the Lord of Hofts, Yet once, it is a little while, and I will fhake the heavens, and the earth, and the fea, and the dry land : and I will fhake all nations, and the defire of all nations fhall come, and I will fill this houfe with glory.
Página 407 - Ihake all nations, and the defire of all nations fhall ' come, and I will fill this houfe with glory, faith the
Página 231 - The Proverbs which are included between the twenty-fifth and thirtieth chapters, and which constitute the fourth part, are supposed to have been selected from a much greater number by the " men of Hezekiah •" that is, by the prophets whom he employed to restore the service and the writings of the Church, as Eliakim, and Joah and Shebna, and probably Hosea, Micah, and even Isaiah, who 'all flourished in the reign of that monarch, and doubtlessly cooperated with his endeavours to re-establish true...

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