Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next readings showed the wonderful skill Mohammed displayed in using the Jewish traditions for his own advantage. These traditions had worked their way into the Arabic language so Mohammed was using material familiar to his audience. The translation of the suras in which he uses the story of Moses to justify and define his own mission was one of the most interesting portion of the lecture...
...Nabonida. These translations related to gifts to the temples, loans, sale of slaves and real estate, marriage, partnership and legal decisions. Such information makes it possible for us to have a very clear view of the social life of the times. This was just the period of the Jewish exile. The tablets also throw light on contemporary political history and on the method of reckoning time...
...with the choir. Dr. F. G. Peabody offered prayer, and led in the responsive reading of the ninety-first Psalm. The Rev. M. Gordon preached a short sermon, taking his text from the passage in the first chapter of John in which John is questioned about himself by the Jewish priests. He answers, "There standeth one among you whom ye know not." In our minds "education" means the training of our intellects or hearts to some high and noble ideal. We often succeed, in a partial degree, in gaining this high standard. We obtain the wealth for which...
...find no trace, however, of the selection of the bishop by the apostles, or even of diocesan episcopacy. The bishops were not priests, but officers of the church, charged with preserving order and repressing heresy. The imposition of hands, upon which so much stress is often laid, was a Jewish custom used in inaugurating both civil and religious officers. The universal verdict of scholars is that episcopacy arose from presbytery. In the early anglican church no effort was made to put the biship on a higher level than the rest of the priesthood, and it was even admitted that...
...Israel was invaded many times by great armies-first by the Assyrians, then by the Babylonians, and still later by the Persians. At the same time there was great corruption, social and moral, within the Hebrew nation. These men, believing themselves the mouth-pieces of God, kept the old Jewish faith and patriotism alive by denouncing the wretchedness of the rulers and painting the glorious future of the Jewish people. They declared that all the misfortunes of the nation were manifestations of God's displeasure. Their prophecies concerning the brilliant future of the nation the so-called Messianic prophecies- were...