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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... recorded in history, what Solomon said in his wisdom, what 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 ...
... recorded by Moses. Moses lived fourteen hundred years before the birth of Christ, and so, as the great lawgiver reckoned time, he placed the beginning of the world about three thousand years before his age. At the rate of development ...
... recorded that he "spake three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts and of ...
... recording that "The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming." It must have been the remembrance of myriads of birds, massed in migration, which was ...
... recorded that a man went to her, " As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not it is for his life." David gave the warning, "Upon the wicked He shall rain snares." But he also made the promise, "He shall deliver thee from the snare ...