This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... God, and as being such is naturally forbidden in the first table, which teaches us our duty to God. It is also destructive of civil society, and hence it is again forbidden in the second table. The laws of all organised states necessarily forbid it, and generally under a very severe penalty. The Jewish law condemned ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... God, and as being such is naturally forbidden in the first table, which teaches us our duty to God. It is also destructive of civil society, and hence it is again forbidden in the second table. The laws of all organised states necessarily forbid it, and generally under a very severe penalty. The Jewish law condemned the false witness to suffer the punishment which his evidence was calculated to inflict (Deut. xix. 18, 19). The Egyptians visited perjury with death or mutilation. The Greeks were content to punish it with a heavy fine, and ultimately with the loss of all civil rights. The Romans, in the more ancient times, inflicted the death penalty. It was generally believed alike in Egypt, in Greece, and in Rome that the anger of the gods was especially provoked by this crime, and that a Divine Nemesis pursued those who committed it."--(Canon Rawlinson.) 4. Josephus says that Alexander the Great, when on his triumphal march, being met near Jerusalem by the Jewish high priest, on whose mitre was engraved the name "Jehovah," approached by himself, and adored that Name. The long array of priests in their white robes, the high priest in his purple and gold attire, his turban bearing the flashing plate of gold on which was the great Name, went forth to meet the conqueror. At sunrise on a winter's morning they met, having marched all night with flaming torches and clashing cymbals. There was astonishment when Alexander dismounted and bowed himself. He bowed, he declared, before the God Whose that high priest was. He had seen such a priest in a vision; by him he had been directed in his conquests. The high priest was a type of the Christ upon Whom is the glorious Name, before which all earth's conquerors are to bow. 5. If the Jews came to the Name ...
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