Identifier: jesusofnazarethh00abbo (find matches)
Title: Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922
Subjects: Jesus Christ
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ccept Jehovahas their civil ruler.f Thus begins their national history. Men grow into freedom. A race long enslaved is seldomfitted for liberty with less than an education which outlaststhe first generation. In accordance with this almost univer-sal law of history, the Hebrew people wait till the generationof slaves is dead before their children are brought to theland of their fathers—the land which God had destined forthem. But this forty years is not misspent. During thattime a constitution and system of laws is perfected andtaught to them which underlies not only all their subsequent * The picture of Mount Sinai which accompanies this chapter is from draw-ings and photographs taken at the place. The edge of Mount Sinai proper isseen upon the left. The plain which occupies the centre is supposed to bethe location of the Israelites encampment. For a description of it, see Rob-insons Researches, vol. i., § ill., p. 140, and Stanleys Sinai and Palestine,p. 42, 43. t Exod. xix., 1-9.
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-B.C. 1490.) RELIGIOUS SANCTIONS. 20 history, but in some measure the political history of theworld. For the Jewish Constitution was not perfectly form-ed and fully j^ropounded from Mount Sinai. It was a growthrather than a fabric. Its principles are scattered throughthe books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.They have sometimes to be deduced from passages whichimply rather than directly teach them. But, thus gatheredand grouped together, they are seen to contain not only asystem of laws admii-ably adapted to the times and the peo-ple, but also those political principles which underlie free in-stitutions for all times and for all peoples. Religion is the foundation of the state. This truth, whichthe failures of the Grecian and Roman republics have taughtthe world, Moses recognized in the very inception of the Jew-ish nation. I am the Lord thy God, which have broughtthee out of the land of Egypt,* is the preamble to theirConstitution. Thou shalt have no other gods before

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