Identifier: bibleitsstory1316horn (find matches)
Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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obedient.^—Ex., 34, 7 ALL of the laws which God thus first taught toMoses, the prophet repeated to the Israelites; andthey promised to obey them. To confirm thiscovenant or agreement with God and secure all its prom-ised blessings, Moses ordained a solemn festival. Hecaused an altar to be erected at the foot of Mount Sinai,and he erected also twelve pillars according to the twelvetribes of Israel. Upon this altar in presence of all the people he slewoxen as a sacrifice to the Lord, and sprinkled the blood,half upon the altar and half upon the people. Also heread to them from a book, in which he had written downthe Law, all the council of the Lord; and they listened andpledged themselves again. All that the Lord hath saidwill we do, and be obedient. This was the high tide ofIsraels good fortune. They were the chosen favoritesof the Almighty; and they knew Him as yet only as a Godof love and of protection, who had harmed no one of them,despite their murmurings and their folly. ^ 11-52
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11 (>C.J .5 IbauiiK fiiO no • . 1 i -jii ia ti I s;i s-ii-,/ ;S< ill k .\ii;^ iilosiesi anb tlje Clberss ^tt (Sob BV THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ITALIAN ARTIST, JACOPO AMICONI, WHO PAINTED IN ENGLAND AND BECAME THE COURT-PAINTER OF SPAIN. And ihey saw the God of Israel.—Ex., 21^., 10. APPARENTLY God meant to lead His chosenpeople on from one beatitude to another. Afterthe covenant was confirmed, Moses went again upinto Mount Sinai, accompanied this time by over seventyof the chief men or elders of Israel. There they wor-shipped God and feasted before Him; and the Almightyrevealed Himself to their eyes, though dimly and not inHis full glory. Even what they saw was, however, too mighty, toowonderful for description. The biblical narrator marvelsthat they died not, and repeats in awe, also they sawGod, and did eat and drink. The single descriptivepassage of the scene does not touch on God Himself buton His surroundings: there was under his feet as it werea paved work of a sapphire s

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