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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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these evils, and rich evangelical blessings. Heforetells in the clearest terms, the effusion of the Holy Spirit (ii. 18-31Acts ii. 1-21; x. 41), and the destruction of Jerusalem, a predictiongiven with such force, as to be in some measure descriptive of the finaljudgment (ii. 30: Matt. xxiv. 29). In chap, iii., he foretells of the assembling of the nations in thevalley of the Judgment of the Lord (Jehoshaphat), and their destruc-tion, the establishment of Jerusalem as the holy city, and the gloriousstate of peace and prosperity to be enjoyed by the church in the daysof the Messiah. His style is remarkably clear and elegant; obscure only towards theclose, where its beauties are shaded by allusions to eventsnot yet accomplished. The double destruction foretold inchaps, i.-ii. 11, the first by the locusts, the second by the enemies ofwhom they were harbingers, is painted in terms that are reciprocallymetaphorical, and admirably adapted to the two-fold character of thedescription. (Gray.)
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Coin showing the effigy of the Emperor, and the Temple and Column of Trajan. Rome.(Born A. D. 52. Reigned 98 to 117 A. D. Died A. D. 117.) Marcus Ulpius Nerva Tr;ijanus was a native of Italic^ Spain. He had beenadopted by the Emperor Nerva, A. D. 97, as the most worthy to succeed him, and,after a glorious reign, died from a stroke of paralysis. The historian Dion, saysof him: He was strong in body, he was vigorous in mind, age had impairednone of his faculties; he was altogether free from envy and detraction; he hon-ored all the good and he advanced them, and on this account they could not beobjects of his fear or of his hate. He had rather be loved as a man than hon-ored as a sovereign ; he inspired none with dread but the enemies of his country. Trajan, although thus commended, is accused of having persecuted the Chris-tians, and to have presided as the judge of the Roman tribunal that sentencedIgnatius to martyrdom. Trajans correspondence with the younger Pliny, Gov-ernor of Bithyn

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