# The old paths, or the Talmud tested by Scripture Being a comparison of the principles and doctrines of modern Judaism with the religion of Moses and the prophets

Author: McCaul, Alexander, 1799-1863

Genre: Category: Religion/Spirituality

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68214

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## Summary

been Divinely appointed. From the law itself, then, we have made out twelve distinct commandments. Eight would have been sufficient to overthrow the oral tradition. But we appeal to the common sense of every Talmudist. We ask him to look over the meagre list of the seven commandments, in which neither love to God nor man is included, and to tell us whether it be at all probable that “the God of the spirits of all flesh” would leave all mankind, excepting the small company of Rabbinists, without any better rule for time, and any better guide to eternity? Is it possible that the God of love and mercy should leave the minority of his reasonable creatures in doubt as to his love, and tell the...

## Chapters

- [xiv. 10,) which he most certainly could not have been, if he had not](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-old-paths-or-the-talmud-tested-by-scripture-being-a-compari-dca95700/chapters/1/index.md)
- [iv. 19,) whom he held up as a warning, recording of him only that he had](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-old-paths-or-the-talmud-tested-by-scripture-being-a-compari-dca95700/chapters/3/index.md)
- [ii. 7): so that if there be any one thing more plain than another in the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-old-paths-or-the-talmud-tested-by-scripture-being-a-compari-dca95700/chapters/2/index.md)