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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... Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Since no one has been able to number our days accurately, and it takes a thousand of our years to make a day with the Almighty, this allows all the time necessary for the ...
... Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind." It was Job who indicated that, although chickens were unknown in his time, people were eating the eggs of fowls of some species ...
... 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, the Almighty would fly to the defense of the loved city. But when the people had ...
... Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you." This tree is still called "sycamenea" in Greece, and ...
... Lord your God seven days." This expression "boughs of goodly trees" is translated from a Hebrew word meaning "fruits," and as the citron was the finest fruit, it was supposed to be intended and is used today on the feast of Tabernacles ...