The Theological Review Volume 13; A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life book

The Theological Review Volume 13; A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life book

The Theological Review Volume 13; A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life by Charles Beard

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Author: Charles Beard
Number of Pages: 212 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231257623
File Name: The.Theological.Review.Volume.13;.A.Quarterly.Journal.of.Religious.Thought.and.Life.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... Testament: Ps. vii. 5. Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; Yea, let him tread clown my life upon the earth; And lay mine honour in the dust. ix. 13. Thou that liftest me tip from the gates of death. xxii. 29... All they that go doimi to the dust shall bow before him. xlix. 19. He shall go to the generation of his fathers; And shall never see light. (Cf. lvi. 13: That I may walk before God in the light of the living.) lxiii. 9. Those that seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the loiver parts of the earth. These passages might easily be increased: the reader will doubtless be able to supply for himself many of similar character. Among the mythological tablets of Assyria, two have been preserved, relating the descent of the goddess Islar into Hades. The opening lines of one of the tablets (as translated by Mr. George Smith in his Chaldean Account of Genesis, p. 227) are as follows: 1. I descend, T descend, to the house of darkness, To the dwelling of the God Irkalla; To the house entering which there is no exit, To the road the course of which never returns: 5. To the house in which the dwellers long for light, The place where dust is their nourishment And their food mud. Light is never seen, in darkness they dwell. Another tablet, of which several translations have been made, adds, "Over the door and bolts is scattered dust." If we suppose that this strange conception of a vast underground realm enveloped in total darkness, and all covered with dust and mud, was shared by the Jews, new light is at once thrown upon the above-quoted passages from the Psalms. Vagueness and dimness is exchanged for definiteness and clearness. Not only the general idea of an abode of dust, t but even some particular sentences, shew a close agreement: c. g...

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