| Daniel Waterland - 1823 - 404 pagini
...proposed was to bewail her virginity. 4. " The sacred story seems to favour this interpre" tation: that at the end of two months she returned to " her father, who did with her according to his vow that * Le Clerc and Patrick on the text. Jenkins's Reasonableness, &c. vol. ii. cap. 18. Selden... | |
| Daniel Waterland - 1823 - 404 pagini
...proposed was to bewail her virginity. 4. " The sacred story seems to favour this interpre" tation : that at the end of two months she returned to " her father, who did with her according to his vow that f Le Clerc and Patrick on the text. Jenkins's Reasonableness, &c. vol. ii. cap. 18. Seldeu... | |
| John Platts - 1825 - 1006 pagini
...retire with her companions to lament her infelicity. At the erpiration of the stipulated interval, she returned to her father, " who did with her according to the vow which he had vowed." With respect to Jephthah's vow, some believe that his daughter was really offered... | |
| Daniel Waterland, William Van Mildert - 1843 - 834 pagini
...proposed was " to bewail her virginity. 4. " The sacred story seems to favour this interpretation : " that at the end of two months she returned to her father, who " did with her according to his vow that he had vowed ; the " consequence of which is immediately added, and she knew «<i " man.... | |
| Ingram Cobbin - 1864 - 682 pagini
...Israel ; as each one hoped that the Messiah or Christ should be born in her family. "At the end of the two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow." Now some suppose that she was slain and offered up for a burnt-offering ; bat it is strange... | |
| Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1867 - 708 pagini
...hope of offspring, and so of the possible honor of being the mother of the Messiah. At the end of the two months she returned to her father, " who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed," words which can leave no possible doubt of her fate. The custom was established... | |
| 1875 - 606 pagini
...companions and bewail her virginity — a request •which the afflicted father readily granted ; and at the end of two months she returned to her father, "who did with her according to his vow" [vs. 31 — 10]. This strange event has given rise to much discussion. Attempts have been... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1879 - 482 pagini
...companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to the vow which he had vowed : and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel... | |
| William Smith - 1896 - 746 pagini
...hope of off spring, and so of the possible honor of being the mother of the Messiah. At the end of the two months she returned to her father, " who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed" words which can leave no possible doubt of her fate.61 The custom was established... | |
| Charles Foster Kent - 1904 - 444 pagini
...departed together with her companions, and lamented on the mountains because of her maidenhood. ^And at the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her as he had vowed to do, she never having known a man. Thus it became a custom in Israel: ^yearly... | |
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