PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
A Dictionary of the Bible — Volume 4
James Hastings · 1,396,759 words · 1386 reading sections
Section 1381
fhraseology has been found (Cheyne, UP 440) in s 26 ', where the ' dew of lights' is compared with ' the illimitable, self-created lights ' of ' the Best •See Kuonen, Itel. of 1st. iii. 32IT. ; Gritz, Uwt. of Jeiet, i. 441 ff. : Ewald, OT and XT Theol. pp. 72-78; Noldeke in C.eiger's Zeitschr. x. 233 ff. ; Kenan, llM.…
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festion, if such there be, thoroughly assimilated. 'he fravashi is no longer a being neces.sarily good, but becomes a coinpli;te spiritual counterpart of the nation (Daniel) or the church (Apocalypse), and capable therefore of declension and punish- ment.* Similarly, the 'angels' of the little ones are nearest the thro…
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• I' we may read Yima's fall in K« 32" : Tiele denies. * See }'( 5^; and Darraesteter's note (Lt ZA ii. 375). must be allowed that there is little really distinc- tive here, except the sun-worship— the one point in which Clieyne (who in other respects endorses Lightfoot's view) thinks Josephus inaccurate.* Moreover, …
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13. Two further comparisons may l>e added from the various suggestions of Prof. Cheyne. The later Jewish practice of prayer at dawn was, he thinks, promiited by I'arsi usage — a point wliich would be hard to prove, lie draws an interesting parallel between the 'Wisdom' of OP sapiential books and the dsnn kkratu, ' heav…
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• i:f hw lntii.Mm|{c in Kniiul lytuilifH (IHIW,, mid viirloua liolea ill thi- Knc. HM. t It is cnrioim thst Mnxdi-inm p»o entirely f«IIe<t lo peiietmt"* WMterti Aftis Minor .CumuiiU Myxt. dt Milhra. '/TS). Ottirrwiwe we Mhonitt l)nv«> nntilrnll.v thoni;llt uf Gphci^nH iie a place where Hiicti i<luUH would be In the ai…
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