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A Catholic commentator of the 16th century, Hieronymus ab Oleastro, seems to have been the first to connect the name Jehova with hôwâk interpreting it contritio, sine pernicies (destruction of the Egyptians and Canaanites); Daumer, adopting the same etymology, took it in a more general sense: Yahweh, as well as Shaddai, meant Destroyer, and fitly expressed the nature of the terrible god whom he identified with Moloch.
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Quid enim meretrix nisi juventutis expilatrix, virorum rapina seu mors; patrimonii devoratrix, honoris pernicies, pabulum diaboli, janua mortis, inferni supplementum?
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Ideoque pernicies nostra nos jam ante fores expectat: [5852] 1
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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In altero miseris perfugium erat, in altero malis pernicies; illius facilitas, hujus constantia laudabatur.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Domini evellant: attendant scholis et scholarum moderatoribus ne qua ex privatis sententiis et pravis opinionibus juventuti instillatis, postmodum Ecclesiae et reipub. pernicies denuo creetur.
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Mox ubi. dies al - ter exortus eft, & exfpe&abatur Proconful, qui de corporte humatione juffiflet, quid forGtan concede - retraifer, quod negafle nec homicidis, nec adulteris ullus judicum folet, nifl econtra Traditdrum fseva pernicies ad crudelitatis capienda confilia vigilaret! quorum fuggeftione Proconful tunc coa&us populos a carcere juflit expelli, & vivum pariter cum de - fun&o, marinis fluftibus mergi 9 ne quafi permitte* ret eos dignitatem Martyrum venerari.
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Jam non longe pernicies abcrat, nfcriora omnia corripucrat.
Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ... Lactantius, Paul Bauldri, Etienne Baluze , Nicolas Thoynard , Johan Columbus , Thomas Spark , Joannes Georgius Graevius, Gisbertus Cuperus, Elias Boherellus, Thomas Gale 1692
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Ideoque pernicies nostra nos jam ante fores expectat, "etc. Herein lies the rise and spring of that stated apostasy from the power of evangelical truth, wherein the world takes its liberty to immerge itself in all licentiousness of life and conversation; the end whereof many cannot but expect with dread and terror.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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: eft omnis juventus, virtus cum defecerit. iltus Chrifti radius prae cunftis amabilis, agis diligendus ed, quam flos carnis fragilis. iveto, Filiole, feminare fpecies, lias mox ingredietur non parva pernicies.
Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland:: From the Most Ancient Times ... 1789
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