Word: godding
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...politics, literature; but the Jews were so completely absorbed in the religious aspect that they lost sight of everything else. In the prophetic literature there is an ideal picture, a conception found in no other literature. The ultimate end is a great world kingdom fashioned by the hand of God out of his chosen people...
Meanwhile another idea was growing up, that of law; and these two ideas, the first of the prophets and pertaining to the relation of the race to God, the second of the scribes and concerning the government of society by law, blend in the last part of the Old Testament...
...whole of the Old Testament literature is national, yet at the same time of the individual. From this literature we arrive at the fact that the morals of the Jews did not differ much from those of the Greeks and Romans. The difference was in their relations with God rather than with...
...Jews believed in common with most nations that-if God were offended by disobedience proper relations might be resumed with Him by means of sacrifices. The Jews however had a more complete and symmetrical belief than other peoples. Instead of many temples and priests, we find but one temple and but one priest...
...Testament sets forth this idea that God is to be propitiated by the suffering of the nation or of a part...