Category: Religion/Spirituality
altar, 1 Kings xi, 7, is supposed to have been the same deity. Baal Peor has been farther supposed by some to have been Priapus; by others, Saturn; by others, Pluto; and by others again, Adonis. Mr. Faber agrees with Calmet in making Baal Peor the same with Adonis; a part of w...
2. In the commencement of the following chapter he thus rejects the notion that predestination is to be understood as resulting from God’s foreknowledge of what would be the con...
6. xxxv. Jerusalem was three times besieged and taken by Nebuchadnezzar,king of Babylon, within a very few years. The first, in the reign of the last mentioned king, Jehoiakim, who was sent a prisoner to Babylon, and the vessels of the temple transp...
10. xxiii. When the seventy years of the captivity were expired, the goodprophets and preachers, Zerubbabel, Joshua, Haggai, and others, having confidence in the word of God, and being concerned to possess their natural, civil, and religious rights,...
11. xxviii. On the north side it has an old Turkish ungarrisoned castle;beside which, you see nothing here but a mere Babel of broken walls, pillars, vaults, &c; there being not so much as one entire house left! Its present inhabitants are only a fe...
8. xix. The hundred and nineteenth Psalm abounds with praises of the livelyoracles, the word of the living God; it abounds with the warmest expressions of love to it, of delight in it, and the most fervent petitions for divine illumination in the knowl...
3. chapter xlix, having mentioned among the famous men and sacred writers,Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, adds the twelve minor prophets who follow those three in the Jewish canon; and from this circumstance we may infer that the prophecies of these twelve...
2. i. The Greek mythology considered Apollo as the god of medicine, andattributed also to him those possessions by a pythonic spirit which occasionally perplexed spectators, and of which we have an instance in Acts xvi, 19. Apollo, too, was the sun...
7. cxviii. They bring forth the roll of the law, and read therein to fourpersons. They call to remembrance the sacrifice that on this day used to be offered in the temple. On the evening of the Sabbath which follows the new moon, or some other evenin...
5. iii. He reigned two years in peace, but the remaining eight years wereISHMAELITES, the descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham by Hagar, his Egyptian bond-maid. Ishmael was born B. C. 1910, and his name, founded on a circumstance which afforded...
1. xxxv. Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, to whom Solomon erected analtar, 1 Kings xi, 7, is supposed to have been the same deity. Baal Peor has been farther supposed by some to have been Priapus; by others, Saturn; by others, Pluto; and by othe...
9. xxxiv. There were not wanting, however, multitudes of false prophets