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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... sand of the sea." Birds were so plentiful that the Creator enumerated "the fowls of the air" as one of the methods of destruction which should fall upon the Jews: and the son of Sirach wrote in Ecclesiasticus, "As birds flying down he ...
... sand." A proverb in Ecclesiastes contains these lines: "Birds will resort unto their like; And truth will return unto them that practice her." Habakkuk, in reproving the Chaldeans for covetousness, drew on his knowledge of the habits of ...
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