| Thomas Paine - 1810 - 504 páginas
...of those who dwell in the graves. Chap. l,\. vol. ii. p. 438. GENERAL PRECEPTS. They will ask thee concerning wine and lots: answer, in both there is...men: but their sinfulness is greater than their use. They will ask thee also what they shall bestow in alms: answer, what ye have to spare. Thus God sheweth... | |
| 1825 - 538 páginas
...hope for the mercy of GOD ; for GOD is gracious and merciful. They will ask thee concerning wine'1 and lots": Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some things of use unto menf : but their sinfulness is greater than their use. They will ask thee also what they shall bestow... | |
| 1832 - 280 páginas
...of games of chance to his followers. " They will ask tb.ee of wine and lots. Answer, In both these there is great sin, and ..also some things of use...but their sinfulness is greater than their use."* The occasion -of this prohibition seems to have been the prophet's witnessing their bad effects in... | |
| Lucius Manlius Sargent, M. L. V. - 1833 - 290 páginas
...discourse, asserts, that the true reason may be found on the face of the Koran—" they will ask thee concerning wine and lots: answer, in both there is great sin and also some things of use to men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." 6 For a full and fair account of the drunkenness... | |
| George Bush - 1833 - 288 páginas
...and of games of chance to his followers. " They will ask thee of wine and lots. Answer, In both these there is great sin, and also some things of use unto men ; hut their sinfulness is greater than their use."* The occasion of this prohibition seems to have... | |
| Samuel Morewood - 1838 - 768 páginas
...the Koran, and that their moderate use is allowed by two passages in the same work. The words are, " They will ask you concerning wine and lots ; answer,...unto men ; but their sinfulness is greater than their iwe."t Again, " And of the fruit of palm trees, and of grapes, ye obtain an inebriating liquor and... | |
| Samuel Morewood - 1838 - 778 páginas
...the Koran, and that their moderate use is allowed by two passages in the same work. The words are, " They will ask you concerning wine and lots ; answer,...sin, and also some things of use unto men ; but their sinftilness is greater than their nse."f Again, " And of the fruit of palm trees, and of grapes, ye... | |
| Beaumont Square Chapel, Mile End (LONDON), John Thomas Barber Beaumont - 1840 - 204 páginas
...sweat of honest military and manly labours. MAHOMET (the Koran).—They will ask thee concerning wine H and lots; answer, in both there is great sin, and...; but their sinfulness is greater than their use. They will ask thee, also, what they shall bestow in alms; answer, what ye have to spare. Thus God sheweth... | |
| Frederick Walpole (hon.) - 1851 - 432 páginas
...and again passing the same house he found all fighting and quarreling ; so he says in the Koran : " They will ask you concerning wine and lots; answer,...; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." Perhaps he saw the actual necessity of this to the existence of a race in such a climate as his own... | |
| Frederick Walpole - 1851 - 1342 páginas
...; so lie says in the Koran ; " They will ask you concerning wine ami lots ; answer, in both tltero is great sin, and also some things of use unto men...; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." Perhaps he saw the actual necessity of this to the existence of a race in such a climate as his own... | |
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