Description - Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture, Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New Volume 2 by Thomas Harmer
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1797 Excerpt: ... intelligence by other methods; and as God opposed his Prophets, at various times, to pretended sorcerers, it is not unlikely that the Prophet Ilaiah points at some such prophetic discoveries in those remarkable words, If. xlv. 3, "And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden "riches of secret places, that thou mayest "know, that I the Lord, which call thee "by thy name, am the God of Israel: " I will give them, by enabling some Prophet of mine to tell thee where they are con-cealed. Such a supposition throws a great energy into those words. Great also was the extent of the prohibition to the Jewish people, not to consult sorcerers: they were neither to do it as Saul did, to know the event of a war; nor after they had conquered, to find out the treasures of the vanquijlied. Observation XLI. The Eastern people to this day, it seems, support the expenses of government, in com-. Exod. 7. 11, ch. 8. 19, and If. 44. 25. mon, mon, by paying such a proportion of the produce of their lands to their princes. These are their taxes. No wonder it was so in remoter ages. The-MS. C. gives us this account: The revenues of princes in the Eajl are paid in the fruits and productions of the Earth. There are, no other taxes upon the peasants The twelve officers of Solomon then, mentioned 1 Kings iv. 7--19, are to be considered as his general-receivers. They furnished food for all that belonged to the king; and the having provisions for themselves and attendants, seems to have been, in those times ot simplicity, all the ordinary gratification his ministers of state, as well as his meaner servants, received. Silver, gold, horses, armour, precious vestments, and other things of value, came to him from other quarters: partly a kind of tribute ...
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