Six Months in a Syrian Monastery: Being the Record of a Visit to the Head Quarters of the Syrian Church in Mesopotamia, with Some Account of the Yazidis Or Devil Worshippers of Mosul and El Jilwah, Their Sacred BookH. Cox, 1895 - 400 من الصفحات |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Agha Aleppo altar ancient Arabs Armenian arrived beautiful Bishop boys building built called caravan chief Christians cigarettes coffee colour consecrated Constantinople containing court crowd custom deacons Deir Deir-el-Za'aferan Diarbekr diwan donkeys door East Eastern Edessa Efrem English Eutyches faith father Gospel Government grapes Greek Hakh hand head hills holy honour horses hundred Jebel Tur John John of Ephesus journey Kurdish Kurds Mafrian Mardin Mattha Mesopotamia Midhiat missionaries Mohammedan monastery monks Monophysite morning Moslem mosque Mosul mountains Mushir Mutran native Nestorians night Nisibis Old Syrians Papal Pasha passed Patriarch of Antioch Persian plain prayer priest Rahab ride river rode Roman roof round ruins saints sanctuary seemed servant sheep Sheykh Adi shrine side soon stone Syrian Church things Tigris tomb town travellers turband Turkey Turkish Urfa village walls women Yakob Yazidis zaptieh
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 171 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
الصفحة 15 - And thither were all the flocks gathered : and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
الصفحة 34 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
الصفحة 250 - Like a tale of little meaning tho' the words are strong; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil. Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil; Till they perish and they suffer - some...
الصفحة 275 - God, was glad ; and he exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord ; for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith : and much people was added unto the Lord. And he went forth to Tarsus to seek for Saul : and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch.
الصفحة 125 - No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
الصفحة 186 - Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust : thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them. There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
الصفحة 35 - And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.
الصفحة 35 - And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
الصفحة 146 - My lord, hearken unto me : the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver ; what is that betwixt me and thee ? bury therefore thy dead. 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.