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Title: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Angus, Joseph, 1816-1902 Hoyt, F. S. (Francis Southack), 1822-1912 Madden, Frederic W. (Frederic William)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Fagan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ably, a disciplined, valiant people; but they Canaanites. 8eem to have made little effort to repel the invaders. Perhapsthey trusted to the swellings of Jordan, which at the time whenJoshua entered Canaan (the vernal equinox), made the stream, as theysupposed, impassable; or, perhaps, as one of their number expressed it,the terror of the God of the Hebrews had fallen upon them. Theywere certainly fearfully wicked (Lev. xviii. 24-30: Deut. ix. 4 ; xviii.10-12). Their idolatry had, as idolatry ever does, augmented licen-tiousness and cruelty. The Divine will they had once known, for theywere descendants of Noah, and for centuries the light of an earlyrevelation had lingered among them (Gen xiv.). They had beenwarned—by the deluge, by the history of the cities of the plain, thedestruction of Pharaoh, the recent overthrow of their eastern neighbors,the Amorites, the passage of the Jordan, the capture of Jericho, thepreservation of Rahab, and the conviction of their own conscience. Their
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(Born A. D. 37. Reigned 54 to 68 A. D. Died A. D. 68) Lucius Domitius Nero was the sixth Roman Emperor, who, after commencinghis reign with acts of justice, proved one of the most inveterate and infamoustyrants. When he died, probably no man who ever lived had crowded in four-teen years of life so black a catalogue of iniquities. Till the days of Nero, theChristians had never been brought into collision with the Imperial Governmentof Rome; and, up to the tenth year of Neros reign, the followers of Christ hadmany reasons to be grateful to the impartiality of the Roman law. Pauls in-junction to the Roman Christians was to besubject to the higher powers (Rom.xiii. 1-7). War commenced bet ween the Jews and Romans, A. D. 64, and a perse-cution of the Christians began, during which St. Paul suffered death (A. D. 6G) atRome. In the Acts, Nero is often styled Ceesar and Augustus. In A. D. 64, Romewas nearly destroyed by a great conflagration, which Nero was suspected of havingkindled. To remo

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