The Prophets of IsraelW. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1936 - 178 pagina's The splendors of worship grew more splendid, writes Miss Hamilton, the multitudes of priests and devotees perpetually greater; ceremony followed upon ceremony yet the temples and the shrines were empty....And then something happened, one of the most important events that ever happened, which was to result in nothing less than a completely new idea of religion, an altogether different relation of man to God. In a little country of no consequence to the ruling powers...Egypt, Nineveh, Babylon...a man arose, one man, all alone, to set himself against the force of the whole world's conviction; and after him another, and then another, each always by himself against the nations, in all a mere handful of men, who had a vision of a new heaven and a new earth, a new motive power for mankind and a new road to God, and who proclaimed this strange conception with a passion and a power never surpassed in the 3000 years that stretch out between their day and ours. The Prophets were men of extraordinary minds, able to reflect greatly upon human life and to see deep into human nature. They were men of passion and fire. In the present volume Miss Hamilton brings these ancient Hebrews to life for us as she brought those other ancient peoples to life in The Greek Way and The Roman Way, at the same time interpreting their significance for us today. |
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Edith Hamilton. CHAPTER VII EZEKIEL : ORGANIZED RELIGION EZEKIEL ZEKIEL'S claim to greatness rests on an altogether different basis from that of the other prophets . His book shows a great falling off mentally and morally from them ...
... Ezekiel em- phasizes it far and away beyond any other book in the Old Testament . Only the circumcised can enter God's sanctuary . If the uncircumcised so much as cross the threshold they will " pollute " it . In verse after verse he ...
... Ezekiel shaped it , it has endured storms such as have visited no other . The history of the Jewish people is one long record of terror and agony , but after two thousand years of unparalleled suffering their organization still appears ...
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FOREWORD | 13 |
FEAR AND FORM IN RELIGION 25 | 25 |
II | 40 |
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