Author : Joseph Samuel Exell
Release : 2016-08-20
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Biblical Illustrator, Or Anecdotes, Similes, Emblems, Illustrations by : Joseph Samuel Exell

Download or read book The Biblical Illustrator, Or Anecdotes, Similes, Emblems, Illustrations written by Joseph Samuel Exell. This book was released on 2016-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Biblical Illustrator, or Anecdotes, Similes, Emblems, Illustrations: Expository, Scienti c, Geographical, Historical, and Homiletic, Gathered From, a Wide Range of Home and Foreign Literature, on the Verses of the Bible; Deuteronomy The character OF the book. - The speeches exhibit a striking unity of style and character. They are pervaded by the same vein of thought, the same tone and tenor of feeling, the same peculiarities of conception and expression. They exhibit matter which is neither documentary nor traditional, but conveyed in the speaker's own words. Their aim is strictly hortatory their style earnest, heart-searching, impressive, in passages sublime, but throughout rhetorical they keep constantly in view the cir cumstances then present, and the crisis to which the fortunes of Israel had at last been brought. Moses had before him not the men to whom by God's command he delivered the law at Sinai, but the generation following which had grown up in the wilderness. Large portions of the law necessarily stood in abeyance during the years of wandering; and of his present hearers many must have been strangers to various prescribed Observances and ordinances. Now, however, on their entry into settled homes in Canaan a thorough discharge of the various obligations laid on them by the covenant would become imperative and it is to this state of things that Moses addresses himself. He speaks to hearers neither wholly ignorant of the law, nor yet fully versed in it. Much is assumed and taken for granted in his speeches again, on other matters he goes into detail, knowing that instruction in them was needed. Sometimes, too, opportunity is taken of promulgating regula tions which are supplementary or auxiliary to those of the preceding books some few modifications arising out of different or altered circumstances are now made and the whole Mosaic system is completed by the addition of several enactments (chaps. Xii. - xxvi.) of a social, civil, and political nature. These would have been wholly super uous during the nomadic life of the desert but now, when the per manent organisation of Israel as a nation was to be accomplished, they could not be longer deferred. Accordingly the legislator, at the command of God, completes his great work by supplying them. Thus he provides civil institutions for his people accredited by the same Divine sanctions as had been vouchsafed to their religious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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."