Word: zachariah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heresy" with which your reviewer charges me was enunciated by Jesus himself. He told the woman of Samaria, "Salvation comes from the Jews"; when all Israel had repented and turned again to strict Judaism, then according to the prophecy in Zachariah, which he plainly conceived himself to be fulfilling', the Gentiles too would be proselytized and flock to Jerusalem to worship. Yes, certainly, the disciples went into all the world to preach the Gospel: but to their fellow Jews, scattered in every country from Portugal to India: for Jesus had roundly condemned the practice of actively proselytizing the Gentiles...
...strode through the streets of Manhattan (where he now lives) muttering: "Woe to her that is filthy and polluted! What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?" For this descendant of many Dutch Calvinist divines is something of a modern Zachariah, a minor social prophet in the line of Tolstoy, Strindberg, Shaw and Ibsen. Pierre van Paassen knows how to number the sins and sound the trump of doom so mellifluously that his first book, Days of Our Years, sold 300,000 copies. Advance sales of That Day Alone last week...
...water colors or paintings by Charles H. Woodbury, Stuart Henry and Raymond Breinin; two water colors by Dobujinsky; an album of lithographs by Gustave Dore, "La Menagerie Parisienne," Chinese woodblock prints of the 18th century; a Lydian potter ointment vase of the 6th century; and a silver tablespoon by Zachariah Brigden...
...advisory committee on civil rights including Zachariah Chafee, Langdell Professor of Law; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government; Morris B. Lamble, professor of Government; Henry J. Cadbury, director of the Andover Harvard Theological Library; and Raymond Dennett, Graduate Secretary of P. B. H., will advise conscientious objectors, provide information, and give legal advice concerning the Selective Service...
...Advisory Committee on Civil Rights has been formed by a group of professors including Zachariah Chafes, Jr. Langdell Professor of Law; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; and Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government, to provide information and to give legal advice concerning the Selective Service...