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The firelight glimmers upon the walls of your cherished home, like the Vestal fire of old upon the figures of adoring virgins, or like the flame of Hebrew sacrifice, whose incense bore hearts to Heaven. The big chair of your father is drawn to its wonted corner by the chimney-side; his head, just touched with gray, lies back upon its oaken top.
In the trial of a Hebrew criminal, there were 'Lactees, consisting of two men, one of whom stood at the door of the court, with a red flag in his hand, and the other sat on a white horse at some distance on the road that led to execution.
I know a most excellent clergyman, not far from my own time of life, whom I would pit against any old Hebrew rabbi or Greek philosopher of his years and weight, if they could return to the flesh, to run a quarter of a mile on a good, level track. We must not make too much of such exceptional cases of prolonged activity.
Cecil, ere the Hebrew could speak, leaned forward, took the check and tore it in two. "God bless you, Rock," he said, so low that it only reached the Seraph's ear, "but you must not do that." "Beauty, you are mad!" cried the Marquis passionately.
There is always the question also, which I profess seems to be one not easy of answer, whether the literary judgments as to style when men are dealing with another language than their own, and especially with Greek and Hebrew, can be as worthy of acceptance as their authors and many others hold them to be; whether, in short, their opinions may not, like those of experts in handwriting, come to be so colored by their personality, or their interests, as to be of little evidential value.
They make Christ over into a murderer, and Moses into a savior. Is not this horrible blasphemy? Is therefore Christ the minister of sin? This is Hebrew phraseology, also used by Paul in II Corinthians, chapter 3.
For after a vision which irresistibly recalls the grosser Hebrew prophecies: I see thy commerce, Britain, grasp the world: All nations serve thee; every foreign flood, Subjected, pays its tribute to the Thames,
The Hebrew word here used also indicates that the righteousness attributed to them was conformity to the demands of the ritual. It seems probable, therefore, that the ancient story of Job was committed to writing by some priest during the Babylonian exile.
Photographs of three pages of this MS. will be found with the Hebrew text. This MS. is the groundwork of the text I have adopted. R, or the Roman MS., in the Casanatense library at Rome, and numbered No. 216 in the Catalogue Sacerdote. Under my direction Dr. Grünhut, of Jerusalem, proceeded to Rome, and made a copy. Subsequently I obtained a collation of it made by the late Dr.
The reference which our Lord made to these mysterious verses gives them an especial interest. The first apostasy, the fall of the angels, is, perhaps, intimated. Ps. I would fain understand this Psalm; but first I must collate it word by word with the original Hebrew. It seems clearly Messianic. Ps. Vv. 10-12.
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