Category: History - Religious
CREATION, p. 9. Naturally the first fact revealed; Its moral lessons, 9; The origin of this record and the manner of its revelation to men, 12; Nature and the supernatural, 13; Theories on the origin of life, 14; The sense of the word “day” in Gen. 1: 16; Argued (1) From the l...
are located in Canaan. The record of its fulfillment appears in Josh. 8: 30–35. The service was two-fold: first the writing of the law on large plastered stones: second, the pro...
31. CHAPTER XI.THE story of Isaac is brief; his life uneventful, perhaps we might say monotonous. The record shows that the Lord appeared to him on two distinct occasions; at Gerar (Gen. 26: 2...
21. CHAPTER I.FITLY the written word of God to the race begins with the _creation_. In every reflecting mind the first inquiry must be this: Whence am I? Whence came my being――this wonderful...
39. CHAPTER XX.Moses tarried on the Mount forty days to receive from the Lord the civil statutes in detail and also all his instructions in respect to the tabernacle, the priesthood, and the r...
34. CHAPTER XIV.THE thread of our history having now reached a point where we leave Egypt and have seen the last of that one particular Pharaoh, it is in place to take a final review of the que...
32. CHAPTER XII.THIS second book of the Pentateuch takes its modern name from its principal event, the exodus of the Hebrew people――their marching forth out of their house of bondage from the l...
37. CHAPTER XVIII.Servitude existed before Moses. It was no part of the mission of the Hebrew code to _create_ it. Let it be forever admitted that the laws given of God through Moses can not be h...
36. CHAPTER XVII.IN scripture phrase, the code is most often called “The statutes and the judgments”――the “commandments and precepts” which the Lord gave by Moses (Deut. 6: 1 and Ex. 21: 1).
38. CHAPTER XIX.THIS system contemplates as its ultimate end the obedience, homage, and worship due from men to God. As a prime means toward this end, it prescribes modes and forms of worship....
35. CHAPTER XVI.NATURALLY following the national covenant (Ex. 19) and the giving of the law from Sinai (Ex. 20) and preliminary to the civil code――“the statutes and judgments”――comes in the _T...
30. CHAPTER X.ABRAHAM is one of the great men in the world’s religious history. Why he is so can not be well understood and appreciated without at least a brief view of the state of the world...
23. CHAPTER III.BY general consent the birth of Christ is made the central point of all sacred chronology, the Christian ages being reckoned forward from that point (A. D.) and the Jewish or ea...
33. CHAPTER XIII.THE first of the three great annual festivals of Israel, and the one which above all was commemorative in character――a memorial service――was the _Passover_. It was designed to c...
26. CHAPTER VI.THE first human pair have their first earthly want met by their Maker in a _home_――a quiet, beautiful spot (precisely _where_ we know not, but near the source of the great Euphr...
22. CHAPTER II.(b.) Have there been various “_head-centers_” of the existing human family; or only one and that Adam? Or (the same question in another form) are all the living varieties of rac...
40. CHAPTER XXI.THE manner in which the last four of the five books of Moses are made up is peculiar and should have a moment’s special attention. Their striking peculiarity is the blending of...
28. CHAPTER VIII.1. FIRST, let us note its _moral cause_――the reason why God swept off the living from the face of the earth by a deluge of waters.――――It was essential to the moral results which...
27. CHAPTER VII.In Gen. 4: 1 our English version stands――“I have gotten a man _from_ the Lord.” Some critics construe these words of Eve to mean――By the help or blessing of the Lord; but the mo...
29. CHAPTER IX.When the waters of the great deluge had subsided and Noah and his family found themselves once more upon the face of the solid earth――an unpeopled solitude――that which we read i...
20. CHAPTER XXI.ON THE LAST FOUR BOOKS OF THE PENTATEUCH, 375; Their _method_ and _subject-matter_, 375; Leviticus, 376; Numbers, 376; Deuteronomy, 377; Deut. 12–26, 378; The prophet like Moses...
24. CHAPTER IV.1. Under the head of _time required_, it is in place to note the circumstances which favored the very rapid growth of Egyptian civilization and also of the numerical and politic...
25. CHAPTER V.IT has been already suggested that the division of the creative work into six days rather than into five or ten or any other number, contemplated the weekly Sabbath and was desi...
1. CHAPTER I.CREATION, p. 9. Naturally the first fact revealed; Its moral lessons, 9; The origin of this record and the manner of its revelation to men, 12; Nature and the supernatural, 13;...
17. CHAPTER XVIII.CIVIL INSTITUTES OF MOSES CONTINUED; Hebrew servitude, 294; Man-stealing, 294; No rendition of fugitives, 295; Severe personal injuries entitled to freedom, 295; Periodical eman...
11. CHAPTER XI.THE PATRIARCHS, ISAAC, JACOB, JOSEPH, 132; Isaac, 132; Jacob, 133; At Bethel, 133; At Mahanaim, 137; The struggle of prayer; The points and grounds of this conflict; The law of...
18. CHAPTER XIX.THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF THE HEBREWS, 321; Classification of sacrifices, 322; Choice of animals for sacrifice, 323; The scenes of sacrifice, 324; The significance of sacrifices,...
10. CHAPTER X.ABRAHAM, 114; His personal history; the divine purposes in the new system inaugurated with him; Concentration of moral forces; a more definite _covenant_ between God and his peo...
16. CHAPTER XVII.THE CIVIL INSTITUTES OF MOSES, OR THE HEBREW CODE OF CIVIL LAW, 270; General view of it, 270; Analysis of the crimes condemned, 273; Crimes against God: Idolatry, 273; Perjury,...
14. CHAPTER XIV.THE EVENTS NEAR AND AT SINAI, 222; The manna, 222; Rephidim; water by miracle, 225; The battle with Amalek, 229; Jethro, 230; The Scenes at Sinai, 232; The national covenant; Th...
19. CHAPTER XX.HISTORIC EVENTS OF HEBREW HISTORY FROM SINAI TO THE JORDAN, 342; The golden calf, 342; The intercession of Moses, 343; The Lord reveals his name and glory, 346; Incidents connec...
12. CHAPTER XII.EXODUS 173; The oppression, 173; Moses, 175; His great mission, 179; The ten plagues, 185: These plagues supernatural, 187; Several of them specially adapted to Egypt, 189; The...
15. CHAPTER XVI.THE HEBREW THEOCRACY, 251; The supreme power, 251; The powers of Jehovah’s Vicegerent, 253; The General Assembly and their Elders, 254; The scope afforded for self-government, d...
3. CHAPTER III.HEBREW CHRONOLOGY, 60; 2. How far back was Adam? 60; From birth of Christ back to the founding of Solomon’s Temple, 60; First disputed period――that of the Judges, 60; Second dis...
7. CHAPTER VII.FROM THE FALL TO THE FLOOD, 92; 1. Notes on special passages; Gen. 4: 1, “I have gotten a man――the Lord,” 92; Gen. 4: 6, 7――words of the Lord to Cain, 92; Gen. 4: 23, 24, the so...
4. CHAPTER IV.ANTIQUITY OF MAN RESUMED, 72; On the Antiquity of Egypt, 72; The date of Menes, its first king, and of the pyramids, 74; Unity of the human race: Were there races of pre-Adamic...
2. CHAPTER II.THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN, 49; Two main questions: 1. Is the human family older than Adam? 49; (1) The argument for man’s high antiquity, From traces of his skeleton, 50; From his to...
6. CHAPTER VI.THE EVENTS OF EDEN, 81; I. Is the description of man’s fall symbolic or historic? 81; II. The moral trial, 84; III. The temptation, 87; IV. The fall, 88; The curse; the first in...
9. CHAPTER IX.FROM THE FLOOD TO THE CALL OF ABRAHAM, 107; 1. The law against murder and its death-penalty, 107; 2. The prophecy of Noah, 108; 3. The genealogy of the historic nations, 110; 4....
13. CHAPTER XIII.THE PASSOVER, 205; Consecration of all first-born, 207; The long route to Canaan, 209; The march and the pursuit, 210; The guiding pillar of cloud and of fire, 211; The locality...
8. CHAPTER VIII.THE FLOOD, 99; Its moral causes, 99; Its physical causes, 101; Was this flood universal? 102; As to the earth’s surface, 102 As to its population, 104; Traditions of a great del...
5. CHAPTER V.