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Creation, the Fall, and the Flood? (Mackenzie, Voyages from Montreal..., 1801)

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Type: a quote Sub-type: mythology (c. 1789,1793) Relevance: Genesis - the Beginning Text:  "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Genesis 1:2  "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so." Genesis 1:9 "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so." Genesis 1:24  "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:..."  Genesis 2:16,17  "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and ga...

Subterranean Passages (Potter, de; Roscoe, Memoirs of Scipio de Ricci, 2 vols., 1829 vol. 1)

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Type: a quote Sub-type: a historic event (c. 1781) Relevance: prophecy Text: "Neither shall he regard ... the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37...  speaking of the dishonoring of marriage by the King of the North/Papacy/Roman Catholic church. [...] It will be sufficient to give here the letter written from Rome the 25th October, 1781, by the Advocate Zanobetti to Bishop Ricci: the autograph is in the archives of the family of the latter.   The advocate hopes, that it will end with the general adoption of withdrawing the nuns from the spiritual direction of the monks, “especially in those states, where some years ago it was necessary to raze from the foundations one of men belonging to the barefooted Carmelites, the other of women of the same order, which were joined, and in which, by means of subterranean passages, they led the ordinary life of men and women.” Zanobetti had been five years employed in the office of assessor of the Inquisition, and he knew, he says,...