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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... Isaiah when he wrote that beautiful and poetic line, "As birds flying, so will the Lord of Hosts defend Jerusalem. " He had seen clouds of birds sweeping the night sky to seek the land in which they homed, and he thought that, like them ...
... Isaiah said, "Fear and the pit and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth!" 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 ...
... Isaiah said to them: "Thy sons have fainted, They He at the top of all the streets, As an antelope in a net." Most of the methods for taking birds and animals at that time were included in the words of Bildad, when he reproved poor ...
... Isaiah designated a nation as "The land of the rustling of wings," we feel that the birds must have been as numerous as any one other form of creation worth considering. This statement is confirmed by Pliny, who several centuries later ...
... 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 forty ...