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Title: A new history of the Holy Bible, from the beginning of the world, to the establishment of Christianity. ..
Year: 1795 (1790s)
Authors: Stackhouse, Thomas, ca. 1680-1752
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Glasgow, J. Galbraith
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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. ^ This, no doubt, they did atjfirft in the ^ime manner that himfelf had done, i. e: bygathering the people together in fome wide ftreet, or openplace of the city, that was of the fitteft capacity to receivethem. But, inthe wet and winter feafons of die year, theinconvenience of this came to be felt,; fo that, in procefsof time they eredled houfes and tabernacles, wherein tomeet for this purpofe : And this was the ti\ie caufe andoriginal f of fuch edifices in Judea. oynagocTueai s Jf.rieu Kidoire des dogmes, part i. c, 17, ^ PrideauxsConne(51ion. f >ir Balnas^e, in his hiftory of the Jews, is of opinion, thatthe origin of fvnagogues was not until the reigu of the ^^•morgans, fonie few ages hefori Chrift, and he iirputes i-c to this occafioB : The zealous traditionifts. v/ho m^de h^ng commentaries upon the h^w, thought it a crime to keep th-pe(.ple (whofe applaafe they mightily dcfired) in ignorance of.them J acd Infteaid of conSnitig thsir explications to J^ruialem, ■fthTrs mM
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^ ^i. O >> ^r/ C3 o Chap. 11. /,,„, ,i, 5,^y^^,.^ ^^^^.^ . ^^ ^^^ Synagogues were (.ublic caificcs, fitu.ie ciihrr ..i • / cept when there ..l an int. La U^ a^^ ^• becauie the Jc.s l-e a notion, that ^ J ^^ .God to have hi. houfc inferior, nay, fo nuKh i^ cq«^, ,.nofe, of men and in whatever aty thi. hamKn^ •threaten it with a fpcedy dcihuaion. Thrv *!^ /roofed and covered over, and by this arc difti.from the profeu:h.^, which were conunonly in the Ucid,and open to the heavens. In the midll of them theredefk or pulpit, made very probably in imitation of :whieh (as - we read) Ezra made ufe of, from whence thebook or roll of the law is read very folemnlv. an ♦ ,whence both he that expounds it, or he that ito the congregation at any time, always delivers hinAt the upper end of the fynagogue, and over door, which ever ftands to the weft, there i^ .., prefs, wherein the book of the law is kept, wrapt In afine embroidered doth, and, (what is uncommon in ourchur

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