Bible Dictionary: Lying: Ninevites

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Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departs not;
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"Nineveh, that Great City"
... full of lies and robbery." In figurative language the prophet Nahum compared the
Ninevites to a cruel, ravenous lion ... "They that observe lying vanities forsake ...
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The Evidence of Scripture on Changes of Determination.
... And to rise to still higher instances, when king Hezekiah was lying on his ... may not
fancy that the Lord granted this specially to the Ninevites, He continually ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter xxv the evidence of.htm

Concerning the Sacrament of Penance
... 3:5.) These men, worse and more audacious than the Ninevites, have invented a ... and
thither on pilgrimage, the perverted worship of saints, the lying legends of ...
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The Paralytic Let Down through the Roof.
... the natural reply "thou seest me who have been this long time lying sick of ... the other:
even as He threatened to overthrow the city of the Ninevites [709] for ...
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Of a Private Fast.
... may move to mourn; our nostrils from pleasant smells, our tongues from lying,
dissembling, and ... &c., and is the chief end of fasting, as the Ninevites very well ...
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The Exhortation of the Last HomilyIs Continued in This. ...
... The cases of Job and the Ninevites are referred to as examples ... But not so was it
with Lazarus; for when lying upon the pavement, while the dogs came and licked ...
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Psalm LI.
... how many brethren of ours we think of, and deplore their going unto vanities and
lying insanities, to ... [1836] For this uncertainty the Ninevites repented, for ...
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On Feast Days and Fast Days.
... I find no cause against Him." [3072] But they bringing two lying witnesses, wished ...
and I pour out my soul before the Lord." [3153] And the Ninevites, when they ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec iii on feast days and.htm

2 Cor. I. 23
... Praiseworthy indeed is even that which now ye do, your fasting and lying on the ... In
old time the Ninevites sinned, and they did the things which ye too now are ...
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Answer to the Objection of the Heathen, that it was not Right to ...
... if you will only believe, and comply with the brief terms of the announcement; which
the Ninevites having obeyed ... "Lying dreams, farewell; you were then nothing ...
/.../clement/exhortation to the heathen/chapter x answer to the objection.htm

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