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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... "Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds around about are against her." Jesus, in illustration of His devotion to His ministry, was thinking of the birds when He said: 'The foxes have holes The birds of the air have.
... Jesus referred to the sale of sparrows, which seemed to have been a common and constant practice; and it was He who entered the temple and "overthrew the seats of them that sold doves." Birds were so numerous in those lands in which ...
... Jesus was crucified near Jerusalem. Therefore what he had to say of any bird in comparison with what the compilers of the Old Testament said is of vast importance. Pliny was a Roman of wealth, high position, and had access to all the ...
... Jesus, the son of Sirach, in a preface to his translation of the book of Ecclesiasticus, now incorporated in many modern Bibles. "For things originally spoken in the Hebrew have not the same force in them when they are translated into ...
... Jesus was baptized; another strip of hills and mountains; and Syria adjoining, which shortly stretched away into desert. At the southeast of the sea lay Arabia, the Sinai Peninsula, across which Moses led the Hebrews in a great circular ...