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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... once so important in English farmhouses , where " faery Mab the junkets eat " and the lubber fiend in one night " threshed the corn , which ten day - laborers could not end . " People discovered that they did not do these things ; they ...
... Once arrived in Babylon the captives must have seen every day the superiority of their own faith and morality to that around them . They had believed with complete confidence that God visited wickedness with fearful calami- ties . Not ...
... once the old prophetic note is struck : When the poor and needy seek water and there is none , I , the Lord , will hear them . Once too the wicked and the rich are classed to- gether . But these matters do not press upon him . There is ...
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FOREWORD | 13 |
FEAR AND FORM IN RELIGION 25 | 25 |
II | 40 |
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