Excerpt from The Life and Growth of Israel: A Brief Old Testament History To every life, individual or national, there is a background and a foreground. The foreground con sists of the details of daily duties, of transitory tasks and of ephemeral interests. The background is made up of those plans and purposes, those ideals and aspirations that mould and shape life and character. The foreground of the life of Israel is made up of dates and names and events which were and are im portant; but the background of her life, the ...
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Excerpt from The Life and Growth of Israel: A Brief Old Testament History To every life, individual or national, there is a background and a foreground. The foreground con sists of the details of daily duties, of transitory tasks and of ephemeral interests. The background is made up of those plans and purposes, those ideals and aspirations that mould and shape life and character. The foreground of the life of Israel is made up of dates and names and events which were and are im portant; but the background of her life, the great purpose and ideal, colouring and directing it, and holding the foreground in its firm and regulated grasp, is what is of prime and permanent value in the history of Israel. It is on the background of Israel's history that emphasis has been placed in this little book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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