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Whether Adam was an hermaphrodite, as the rabbins contend upon the letter of the text; because it is contrary to reason, there should be an hermaphrodite before there was a woman, or a composition of two natures, before there was a second composed.
Religio Medici 2007
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Solomon, and that by this alienation of mind, which we discover in so many rabbins, he has often forgotten, in the course of the book, that it was a king whom he caused to speak.
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To conclude therefore these two interpretations, the one by reduction or enigmatical, the other philosophical or physical, which have been received and pursued in imitation of the rabbins and cabalists, are to be confined with a a noli akryn sapere, sed time.
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And Ainsworth observes from the rabbins, that this offender alone had traps laid to catch him; and were he but once overheard to whisper his seduction, though never so secretly, there was no expiation of his transgression without his own blood.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Scripture, merely because the pope or council says so? nay, how little difference doth this cursed doctrine make between the great mysteries of the gospel, the articles of our faith, and the ridiculous fables of the rabbins, or abominations of Mohammed!
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Peter Martyr testifies that almost all the more ancient rabbins agreed in this opinion.
A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967
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Masoretical rabbins; and that the original text is in many places corrupted, so as that it may and ought to be corrected by translations, especially that of the LXX.; with sundry other such imaginations, which they countenance with uncertain conjectures and fabulous stories.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Jewish rabbins on Isaiah, chap. liii., and of the Socinians on the beginning of the Gospel of John.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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The rabbins did not disavow such acquaintance with supernatural arts.
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A general belief prevailed among Christians that the Jewish rabbins were acquainted with the occult sciences, and particularly with the cabalistical art.
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