Word: veil
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the idea got life. In Isaiah, chapters 24-27, there are many problems and obscure allusions, but the conception reached is a still higher one. Israel is regarded no longer as a guilty nation, but as a righteous one under oppression. The prophet describes the removal of the veil of death and sorrow and the glorious entry of every race into a new creation. In a subsequent chapter the abolition of death is suggested and in another prayer is made for the resurrection of the dead. A similarity of ethical conceptions suggests the possibility of Persian influence at this...
There are two ways of looking at the world: one is that of the cynic and pessimist who maintains that the foundation of things is bad and that all so-called right and beauty is only a thin veil over it; the other view sees that God's judgment on his world is the right one and that the creation is surely advancing to perfection...