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...it was an observation of mineral colours that made Moses add, when he was praising the land of eyes, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass (5). It was natural to assimilate different springs to the eyes of different animals to describe the...

...and honey ; 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thiiit; 5 10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for »hr good land which...

...were walled and embattled for war. The character of this land of promise, given by Jehovah, viz. " whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass," Deut. viii. 9, gives us a definitive idea of the quality of its building materials : stone ever abounds...

...purposes, in those, as we have before seen, it was promised that the country should abound ; it was to be " a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass," or copper. (Deut. viii, 9.) We read of coals with which they made Jires, as if they were mineral coals...

...and vines and fig-trees, and pomegran" ates, a land of olive oil, and honey, a land wherein " thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt " not lack any thing in it." And it fully answered this description. It was once dressed, and cultivated, and flourished like a...

...barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates, a land of oil-olive and honey ; a land, wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not...iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." In this sense, then, we may lawfully take this passage, and thus taken it may be considered as a striking...