The Golden Legend: Or, Lives of the Saints, Volume 2J.M. Dent and Company, 1900 - Christian art and symbolism |
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Page 1 - And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the Lord in Shiloh : and the child was young.
Page 5 - The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god. [8] They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?
Page 50 - He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
Page 272 - Go and sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor : and come and follow me.
Page 28 - In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months : and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
Page 31 - Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise* up evil against thee out of thy own house: and I will take thy wives before thy eyes, and give them to thy neighbour: and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and in the sight of the sun.
Page 60 - Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any poor person : for so it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord shall not be turned from thee.
Page 192 - And anon it was known all about, how that he was martyred, and anon after took this holy body, and unclothed him, and found bishop's clothing above, and the habit of a monk under. And next his flesh he wore hard hair, full of knots, which was his shirt. And his breech was of the same, and the knots sticked fast within the skin, and all his body full of worms ; he suffered great pain.
Page 19 - Ix>rd liveth, the God of Israel, who hath withholden me, from doing thee any evil; if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning...
Page 61 - But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to him: Knowest thou the way that leadeth to the country of the Medes? 8 And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all the ways thereof: and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who dwelleth at Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of iLiCbatana.