“Very difficult days are coming. Take care of your soul!”
Animals are innocent and serve God better and more purely than we do. Many Saints had grace from the Holy Spirit and were granted the gift of communicating with the animals as we were meant to in paradise before the fall of mankind. We all also should learn by watching and caring for God's creatures how to serve Him better.
Quarto, 2 volumes, bound in contemporary calf, red and green morocco spine labels in gilt, with frontispieces, numerous engraved plates, some folding. In very good condition, with the armorial bookplates of Samuel Bostock, rebacked Titus Flavius Josephus was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the first century CE and the First Jewish-Roman War (66-70 CE), including the Siege of Masada. His most important works were The Jewish War (c. 75) and Antiquities of the Jews. Fielding and Walker 1777-78, London, 1777.
“If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.”
Ethiopian Bible is the oldest and complete bible on earth.
Written in Ge’ez an ancient language of Ethiopia, it’s nearly 800 years older than the King James Version and contains 81-88 books compared to 66. It includes the Book of ENOCH, Esdras, Buruch and all 3 Books of MACCABEE, and a host of others that was excommunicated from the KJV.
John Baskett (1665–1742) attained the title of “printer to the King’s most excellent majesty” in 1709, but his publishing career turned for the worse when he issued this richly-engraved folio Bible in 1717. Quick to point out the Bible’s numerous misprints, Baskett’s competitors branded it “a Baskett-ful of Errors.” The edition’s more lasting nickname has been the “Vinegar Bible,” because the words “Parable of the Vinegar” appear at the top of the page containing Luke 20:9, Christ’s Parable of the Vineyard.
