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Title: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Angus, Joseph, 1816-1902 Hoyt, F. S. (Francis Southack), 1822-1912 Madden, Frederic W. (Frederic William)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Fagan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nd their guilt; they walked with God. As the world was repeopled, human sinfulness is seen in other forms.Men are scattered over the earth, and ultimately the plan of the Divineprocedure is changed. A particular family is made the. depository of theDivine will, and its history is given. Of that family, the son of the promiseis chosen ; and of his sons, not the elder and favorite, but the younger.The history of his descendants is then given with a double reference,first to their own faith and obedience, and then to the coming of theMessiah. There is both an ultimate and an immediate purpose, andboth are moral. The institutes of thii-i people illustrate the doctrinesof the cross, and we have, moreover, the record of their sins, for ourwarning, and of their repentance, for our imitation and encouragement. Concerning all these narratives, much might have been toldah written us, which is withheld. Difficulties might have beenonthisprm- sojve(i. important physical, or historical, or ethical
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ULRICH ZWINGLI. Born 1484. Died 1531. 17 N THE BIBLE A REVELATION OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH. 145 questions might have been answered. But we have to seekthe solution of these questions elsewhere. Of Assyria, for example, we read in a single passage of the book ofGenesis (Gen. x. 11, 12), but not again for 1500 years, till the time ofMenahem (2 Kings xv. 19); and of Egypt we have no mention, betweenthe days of Moses and those of Solomon. The early history of bothnations is exceedingly obscure, perhaps impenetrably so. But theknowledge is essential neither to our salvation nor to the history of thechurch, and it is not revealed. In the prophetic Scriptures this peculiarity is equally obvi-ous. They are all either intensely moral, or evan- soofpro-gelical, or both. It might have been otherwise, phecy.without injury to prophecy as an outward evidence of Scrip-ture. The gifts of prediction and of moral teaching, mighthave been disjoined: but in fact they are not. What mighthave ministered to the g

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