The Birds of the BibleJazzybee Verlag, 2017 M02 6 - 308 páginas Gene Stratton-Porter, the Indiana novelist and bird lover, offers the fruits of several years' loving labor in "Birds of the Bible”, a handsome volume. The riches of bird lore that Mrs. Porter has unearthed will surprise anyone who opens the book. "Birds of the Bible " is designed for all lovers of birds in general, and lovers of Bible birds and Bible poetry in particular. It contains every reference made to birds in the Bible: describes the location, and explains the characteristics of the bird. In this book, the author, one of the most successful writers of her days, both as a naturalist and a novelist, has made her greatest effort to do something worth while for the world, having given three years to the preparation of the text. |
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... David sang in ecstasy, and what Job cried out in his agony, concerning the birds, it is necessary first to become familiar with the time in the world's history in which these men lived, and the country which was their home. The books of ...
... David, who said of himself, "My tongue is the pen of a ready writer," unhesitatingly declared: I know all the fowls of the mountains: And the wild beasts of the field are mine." It was David who, in writing of the goodness of the ...
... David promised, "He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler." Solomon, writing of the lure of the Strange Woman, recorded that a man went to her, " As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not it is for his life." David gave ...
... David, and they were studious men of wealth and high position. The difference between their writings lies in the fact that what Bible historians record is colored by the truth, sanity, and clear insight of believers in an Almighty God ...
... David, Isaiah, Jesus, and John. These are the mountains they climbed, the lakes where they fished, the rivers in which they bathed. Most of the action of the Bible takes place in Canaan. This little strip of country, one hundred and ...