Word: offing
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In the interval between the Old and New Testaments the social customs of the Jews remained, and they had always some power of enforcing them.
The Bible is a social book throughout. Man was created not as an individual but as a married pair, the beginning of the family and of all social life. This is carried further in each successive stage, the Patriarchal, the legal, the age of the Kings, and the prophets. That...
In the New Testament the "Kingdom" and the "Righteousness" of which Christ spoke must be understood in connection with this. The law was not abrogated but fulfilled, not enforced literally but with a spiritual meaning and sanction. In this sense St. Paul says "We do not destroy the law through...
We have to answer two important questions. First, how far can Christ be spoken of as prescribing socialistic methods? To this we answer that his care for meekness and for poverty was much greater than we have yet attained, but that he never wished his followers to be revolutionists. Second...
The special points in which the Bible shows the way of social reform are; by making us think of men as all belonging to the family of God, and as brothers, that it is the constant source of a spiritualized good nature; that it prescribes forgiveness and mutual trustfulness, that...