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Title: Rambles in Bible lands
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Neil, C. Lang
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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travelling of beingarmed to the teeth, affords a striking, undesigned, andtherefore powerful evidence of the genuineness of thebook of Psalms. On one occasion, when I made aclassified list of the fourteen subjects into which theimagery of that book may be divided, I found figuresdrawn from weapons of war coming third in frequency.It would not be so in Western poems. What a light, too, this throws on the figurativewords of our Blessed Lord : He that has no sword,let him sell his cloak and buy one! 1 I learned, bythe experience of everyday life, that these words, intheir fullest meaning, imply no more than saying, Take now the usual precautions which all prudent andexperienced people employ when setting out upon longand dangerous journeys, as you will no longer be goingout under directly miraculous provision and protection.The Church of Rome has endeavoured to found onthis passage her proud unscriptural claim to use thecivil sword, in the form of persecution, even unto 1 Luke xxii. 36.
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JOPPA GATE OF JERUSALEM, SEEN FROM THE OUTSIDE 96 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS death, to advance the work of the Church. Besides,this passage in the Gospel has been much carped atby unbelievers, who have falsely represented Christ asteaching His disciples to fight for His kingdom andextend it by violence. But the reader will now seethat their objections are the result of ignorance, andcannot live for a moment in the liorht of Palestine life.1 Another strange custom, which has had its origin inthe danger of travelling: in the night time, with no bettershelter from burglars than the canvas side of a tent,has been described by Mr. Xeil in his Palestine Exploited.For several months in the hot season of the year dwellersin Palestine leave the hot towns and villages, and residein tents or in some high adjacent country spot, thustaking change of air without quitting their ordinaryvocations. Not only on these occasions, but also intravelling, when the tents are .pitched in the neighbour-hood of any

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