Part 4
217. And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. And every garment and every skin whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even. The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even. And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean. And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation; she shall be unclean. This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith; and of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her which is unclean. Leviticus xv. 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, 32 33.
218. Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity, unto the elders of the city in the gate. But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel; then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house; so shalt thou put evil away from among you. Deut. xxii. 15, 20, 21.
219. Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, _and spit in his face_, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. Deut. xxv. 9.
220 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections; _for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature_; and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, _burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly_, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. Romans i. 26, 27.
221. Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this Sun. 2 Samuel xii. 11.
222. And there appeared a great wonder _in heaven_, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. And she _being with child, cried travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered_. And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. _And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,_ and did cast them to the earth; _and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered,_ for to devour her child as soon as it was born. _And she brought forth a man-child_, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. Eev. xii. 1 to 5.
223. And there was war _in heaven_; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels. Eev. xii. 7.
224. And he was clothed with a vesture _dipped in blood;_ and his name is called, The Word of God. _And the armies which were in heaven_ followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Eev. xix. 13, 14.
PASSAGES ABSURD AND UNNATURAL.
225. Then spake Joshua to the Lord, in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, _Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon,_ and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon. _And the sun stood still_, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hastened not to go down about a whole day. Joshua x. 12, 13.
226. _The sun and moon stood still_ in their habitations; at the light of thine arrows _they went_, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. Habbakukiii. 11.
227. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, _and made the sea dry land_, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground; and the _waters were a wall_ unto them on their right hand, and on their left. Exodus xiv. 21, 22. .
228. And Moses answered and said. But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, the Lord hath not appeared unto thee. And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? and he said, _A rod._ And he said, Cast it on the ground: _and it became a serpent_; and Moses fled from before it. And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail: and he put forth his hand and caught it, _and it became a rod in his hand._ Exodus iv. 1 to 4.
229. And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, _and it became lice in man and in beast_: all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not; so there were lice upon man and upon beast. Exodus viii. 16 to 18.
230. Make thee an ark of gopher-wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of; the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shall thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark; thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons wives with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, _two of every sort_ shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee: they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind; two of every sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive. _And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten_, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, _so did he_. Gen. vi. 14 to 22.
231. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the _mountains_ were covered. Gen. vii. 17 to 20.
232. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth by the space of _three years and six months_. James v. 17.
233. And the Lord God formed man _of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life_; and man became _a living soul_. Gen. ii. 7.
234. And the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the _rib_ which the Lord God had taken from man, _made he a woman_, and brought her unto the man. Gen. ii. 21, 2.
235. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven: and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his (Lot's) wife _looked back from behind him_ and she became a _pillar of salt_. Gen. xix. 24 to 26.
236. And he (Jacob) dreamed, and behold, _a lad-der_ set upon the earth, and the top of it _reached to heaven_; and behold, _the angels of God ascending and descending_ on it. And behold, _the Lord stood above it,_ and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. Gen. xxviii. 12, 13.
237. And It came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that behold, there appeared _a chariot of fire, and horses of fire_, and parted them both asunder; and _Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven_. 2 Kings ii. 11.
238. Now the Lord had prepared a _great fish_ (which Christ tells us in Matt. xii. 40, was _a whale_.) to swallow up Jonah. _And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights_. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God _out of the fish's belly_: and the Lord spake unto the fish, and _it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land._ Jonah i. 17, and ii. 1, 10.
239. And he found a new _jaw bone of an ass_, and put forth his hand and took it, and _and slew a thousand men therewith_. And Samson said, With the jaw bone of an ass have I slain a thousand men. Judges xv. 15, 16.
240. And it came to pass, when she (Delilah) pressed him (Samson) daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; that he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon my head, for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb; _If I be shaven then my strength will go from me,_ and I shall become weak, and like any other man. The story then proceeds to represent Delilah as betraying Samson into the hands of the Philistines, who shave off the hair from his head, and afterwards put out his eyes and imprison him. In course of time his hair begins to grow again, when his strength returns. The Philistines then take him to their temple that he may make sport for them, and Samson then says unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. Now the house was full of men and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women that beheld while Samson made sport. _And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars, upon which the house stood_, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand and of the other with his left; and Samson said. Let me die with the Philistines, _and he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords_, and upon all the people that were therein; so the dead which he slew at his death, were more than they which he slew in his life. Judges xvi. 16 to 30.
241. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, _fell down bound in the midst of the fiery burning furnace_. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the fiery burning furnace, and spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth of the midst of the fire. And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men _upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them_. Daniel iii. 23, 26, 27.
242. Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually he will deliver thee. Then the king arose Very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions. Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. _My God hath sent his angel and hath shut the lions' mouths that they have not hurt me_: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee. O king, have I done no hurt, Daniel vi. 16, 19, 20, 21, 22.
243. And God saw the light that it was good; and God _divided_ the _light_ from the _darkness_, Gen. i. 4.
244. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth. Gen. i. 16, 17.
245. And there shall be _upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters_, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. Moreover, _the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun_, and the light of the sun shall be _seven-fold_, as the light of seven days' in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. Isaiah xxx. 25, 26.
246. Again the Devil taketh him (Christ) up into an exceeding high mountain, _and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them_, Matt. iv. 8.
247. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of _bones_. And caused me to pass by them round about; and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and lo, _they were very dry_. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O _ye dry bones hear the word of the Lord_. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, Behold _I will cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live_. And I will lay sinews upon you, and bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you; and ye shall live, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied there was a noise, _and behold a shaking, and the bones came together bone to his bone_. And, when I beheld, lo, _the sinews and the flesh came up upon them_; and the skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, _and say to the wind_, Thus saith the Lord God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, _and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet_, an exceeding great army. Ezek. xxxvii. 1 to 10.
248. And it came to pass, as _they were burying a man_, that behold, they spied a band of men, and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, _and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet_. 2 Kings xiii. 21.
249. Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming in the which _all that are in the graves shall hear his voice_. John v. 28.
250. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, (for the _trumpet_ shall sound) and the _dead shall be raised incorruptible_, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinth xv. 52.
251. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven _with a shout_, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain, shall be _caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air_; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1 Thessa. iv. 16, 17.
252. And I saw the _dead_, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, _and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them_; and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Rev. xx. 12, 13, 14.
253. For I am he that _liveth and was dead;_ and behold I am alive for ever more. Amen; _and have the keys of hell and of death_. Rev, i. 18..
254. But Mary stood without at the sepulchre, weeping; and as she wept she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre. _And seeth two angels in white, sitting_ the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. _And they say unto her_, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, _and saw Jesus standing_, and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? she, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary, she turned herself, and said unto him, Rabboni, which is to say Master. John xx, 11 to 16.
255. But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore saith unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. _And after eight days_ again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them; _then came Jesus: (the door being shut) and stood in the midst,_ and said; Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, _and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side_; and be not faithless but believing. John xx. 24 to 27.
356. Jesus saith unto them, _Come and dine_. And none of his disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord. Jesus then _cometh and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise_. This now was the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples, _after that he was risen from the dead_. John xxi. 12 to 14.
257. And when he had spoken these things while they beheld, _he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight_. And while they looked steadily toward heaven, as he went up, behold two men stood by them in white apparel: Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Acts i. 9 to 11.
258. _Then the Spirit took me up_, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place. _So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away_, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me. Ezek. iii. 12, 14.
259. And he put forth the form of an hand, _and took me by a lock of mine head, and the Spirit lift me up between earth and heaven_, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate, that looketh toward the north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. Ezek. viii. 3.
260. And Habbakuk said, Lord, I never saw Babylon; neither do I know where the den is. _Then the angel of the Lord took him by the crown, and bare him by the hair of his head, and through the vehemence of his spirit, set him in Babylon over the den_. And Habbakuk cried, saying, O Daniel, Daniel, take the dinner which God hath sent thee. Bel and the Dragon, xxxv. 6, 7.
261. Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees) and were filled with indignation. And laid their hands on the Apostles, and put them in the common prison. But the _angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors_, and brought them forth, and said, Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people, all the words of this life. Acts v. 17 to 20.
262. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came _and rolled bach the stone from the door_ and sat upon it. Matt, xxviii. 2.
263. And _the angel of the Lord_ came again the second time, _and touched him_, and said, Arise and eat, because thy journey is too great for thee. 1 Kings xix. 7.
264. Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of his staff _that wass in his hand_, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there _rose up fire out of the rock_, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight. Judges vi. 21.
265. Then Tobit called his son Tobias, and said unto him, My son, see that the man have _his wages_, which went with thee, and thou must give him more, So he called _the angel_, and he said unto him, _Take half of all that ye have brought, and go away in safety_. Tobit xii, 1, 5.
266. Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of _an angel of God, very terrible_; but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name. Judges xiii. 6.
267. Whose throne is inestimable, whose glory may not be comprehended, _before whom the hosts of angels stand with trembling_, 2 Esdras viii. 21.
268. Thou shalt not suffer a _witch_ to live. Exodus xxii. 18.
269. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the water pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water _that was made wine_, and knew not whence it was, (but the servants which drew the water knew,) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, and saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse; but thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of _miracles_ did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. John ii. 7 to 11.
270. And Jesus said unto the Centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. _And his servant was healed in the self same hour._ And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. _And he touched her hand and the fever left her_; and she arose and ministered unto them. Matt. viii. 13, 14, 15.
271. And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And behold there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves; but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him and awoke him, saying, Lord save us; we perish. And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, _and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm_. Matt. viii. 23 to 26.
272. And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them, _walking on the sea_. And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit: and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid, And Peter answered him, and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, _he walked on the water_, to go to Jesus. Matt. xiv. 25 to 29.