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Title: Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Bush, George, 1796-1859
Subjects: Bible Bible
Publisher: Brattleboro', Vt. : Brattleboro' typographic company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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t been permitted to shed their blood, ortake away their lives, as they did lo many of the saints inpreceding ages. The combatant in the public games, whogave up the contest before he had lost a drop of his blood,merely because he had received a few contusions, or beenroughly handled by his opponent, would have been infalli-bly branded with infamy. Not less shameful, and infinitelymore dangerous, it would have been for anv of these He-brews to flinch from their duty, or desist from their Chris-tian course, on account of the slighter difliculties andlosses they had met with in striving against sin.—Paxton. Ver. 6. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,and scourgeth everj son whom he receiveth. It is said, in the East, of a truly good father, when he isobliged lo punish his .son,— Adikan;, oru ki ;Anikam, oru ki,One liand. ctiastises;One ttantl, embraces. Showing, that though he is obliged lo inflict punishmentwith one hand, yet in his heart he embraces him with Iheother.—RoBCRTS.
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