An Introduction to the Old Testament: Critical, Historical and Theological, Containing a Discussion of the Most Important Questions Belonging to the Several Books, Volume 1
An Introduction to the Old Testament: Critical, Historical and Theological, Containing a Discussion of the Most Important Questions Belonging to the Several Books, Volume 1
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... only in a truer conception of many things, especially the spiritual and moral, but also in creating a wider region of the fictitious supernatural; the development of the national mind appearing in the clothing of plain facts with legendary and marvellous features. Such is the natural process; the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... only in a truer conception of many things, especially the spiritual and moral, but also in creating a wider region of the fictitious supernatural; the development of the national mind appearing in the clothing of plain facts with legendary and marvellous features. Such is the natural process; the miraculous increasing in proportion to the distance of time between events and the persons looking back upon them. The people were prone to superstition; and so they both moulded their past history, and bodied forth their feelings, in the shape of the marvellous. VII. Balaam And H1s Prophec1es.--Num. xxiii. 4-xxiv. 25. Various interesting and important questions arise out of this portion of scripture, of which the chief are the following: 1. How Balaam obtained a knowledge of Jehovah, the God of Israel. 2. What was his true character and position. 3. What is the meaning of that peculiar prophecy, " I shall see him but not now, I shall behold him but not nigh. There shall come a star out of Jacob, And a sceptre shall rise out of Israel," etc. xxiv. 17. 4. What view is to be taken of the ass speaking to Balaam. 1. The first question is of less consequence than the rest. It has been variously answered. The more usual view is, that the knowledge and fear of God possessed by Balaam grew up in heathen soil, being a remnant of the ancient and pure monotheism which once existed among heathen nations. In confirmation of this, appeal is made to Balaam's country Mesopotamia, the abode of Abraham's family, where an important branch of it settled; to Job; and to the influence of Jacob's residence in the same territory. Balaam is thought to be paralleled in Melchizedek. Among the moderns this hypothesis has been advocated by Tholuck.1 Another view is, that...
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