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. 1857 Excerpt: ...is reported to have been carried into Egypt by the will of Jupiter, the god of heaven; and thus we may understand why she was worshipped by the Jews--from their bondage and debasing slavery in Egypt, and as a consequence of long association with idolatry. In this same 20th chapter of Exodus, we should read, " Ye shall ...
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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. 1857 Excerpt: ...is reported to have been carried into Egypt by the will of Jupiter, the god of heaven; and thus we may understand why she was worshipped by the Jews--from their bondage and debasing slavery in Egypt, and as a consequence of long association with idolatry. In this same 20th chapter of Exodus, we should read, " Ye shall not make me (not "with me ") such a strange being as a god of silver; neither shall ye make to yourselves a god of gold, --here evidently implying', through which to worship me. Again, in Isaiah xlvi. 5., "To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?" Jeroboam's calves, we read, were made of gold, and he said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, 1 Kings xii. 28., the same appeal to gratitude as given in Exod. xx.: also we find verse 32. of 1 Kings xii. that the same feasts were kept as in Jerusalem, and the same ceremonies, or very similar ones. Moreover, we find in this passage these calves called, DWN, Gods;--the same generic term as applied in the first ages of to world the Jehovah. Indeed, the common use of this word for Gods is not only a strong presumptive proof of the intentions of such false worshippers, but also, one would suppose from its universality, a sufficient evidence of the primary existence of an Elohim Jehovah or True God, of which these secondary and ignorant applications were clearly but corruptions and indistinct conceptions. III. We now pass by an easy transition from the Second to the Third Commandment, as closely and intimately connected: the last Commandment forbade the use of imagegods; this Third forbids the use of God's name: --1. As applied in worship ...
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