Bible Dictionary: The Jews: National Character of Prone to Idolatry

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 2:8
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 57:5
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
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Library

Paul in Athens.
... in vain applied for relief to their national Gods, were ... Among the Jews themselves,
he dwelt in thick darkness ... having no knowledge of his real character, nor of ...
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The Education of the World.
... time than any other; and the national life of ... it is unquestionable that in Babylon
the Jews first attained ... the character long after the character would appear ...
/.../essays and reviews the education of the world/the education of the world.htm

Additional Evidences of Christianity, and Reflections on the Whole ...
... we cannot, without great injustice to the character of the ... more here, the preservation
of the Jews, as a ... 172] , which relate to their national conversion and ...
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The Preface
... a dishonourable light, by giving them a character that even ... own or of other churches,
yea and national churches also ... but true) saying of the Jews, "That great ...
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Acts XV
... There never was a national antipathy more intense than that ... saying to them, You must
live like the Jews. ... [338] This excellence of Peter's character was known ...
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The Sibylline Oracles.
... Jews, suffering from their late disasters, and prone to look ... to what we know of their
actual character. ... be said of the proselyte baptism practised by the Jews. ...
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Period iii. The Dissolution of the Imperial State Church and the ...
... Lombards in Italy assumed a national character, coming largely ... foundations of the
Germanic national churches were ... forsaken the error of idolatry, and embraced ...
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A Traveler's Note-Book
... His character, revealed in the "fierce light that beats ... The national god of the
Israelites, at the earliest ... The Jews had neither science nor logic; they had no ...
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John Bunyan on the Terms of Communion and Fellowship of Christians ...
... different tint, or dye, given to the character"was best ... whom he hath called, not
of the Jews only, but ... It is possible to commit idolatry even with God's own ...
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The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus
... their numbers by their energy and tenacity of character: lying to ... to it on every
occasion of national danger.* The ... or to the period when the Jews, without any ...
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