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Keith McMullen
keithsz at sbcglobal.net
Sat Nov 12 00:31:20 CST 2005
--- James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
a-and doesn't
he delve in to Genesis a couple times in GR
"First," he wrote, "Bereshith, as it were: Ramsay MacDonald can die."
By the time he went through resulting party alignments and possible
permutations of cabinet posts, Ramsay MacDonald had died. (p. 77)
The first book of the Pentateuch (q.v.) is called by the Jews
Bereshith, i.e., "in the beginning", because this is the first
word of the book. It is generally known among Christians by the
name of Genesis, i.e., "creation" or "generation," being the
name given to it in the LXX. as designating its character,
because it gives an account of the origin of all things. It
contains, according to the usual computation, the history of
about two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine years.
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