The Bible History, Old Testament, Volume 7: From The Decline Of The Two Kin...

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:The Bible History, Old Testament, Volume 7: From The Decline Of The Two Kingdoms To The Assyrian And Babylonian CaptivityISBN13:9781508544913ISBN10:1508544913Author:Edersheim, Alfred (Author)Description:Alfred Edersheim Was A Jewish Convert To Christianity Who Wrote A Massive Multi-Volume Tome On The History Of The Bible From The Preface: The Volume Herewith Introduced To The Reader Brings, According To The Original Plan Of The Series, This Bible History To A Close This Circumstance Naturally Suggests A Retrospect, However Brief In The Prefaces To Preceding Volumes, The Chief Characteristics Of Each Period Were Successively Sketched, And The Questions Indicated To Which They Gave Rise, As Well As The Special Points In Respect Of Which The Treatment Of One Part Of This History Differed From Another The Period Over Which The Present Volume Extends - That From The Decline To The Fall Of The Kingdoms Of Judah And Israel - Can Scarcely Be Said To Have Any Distinguishing Features Of Its Own It Is The Natural Outcome And The Logical Conclusion Of The History Which Had Preceded It Means That This History, As Presented In Holy Scripture, Is One And Consistent In All Its Parts; Or, To Put It Otherwise, That What God Had From The First Said And Done With Reference To Israel Was True Thus, As Always, Even The Judgments Of God Point To His Larger Mercies In Two Respects, However, This Period Differs From The Others, And Its History Required A Somewhat Different Treatment It Was The Period During Which Most Of The Great Prophets, Whose Utterances Are Preserved In The Books That Bear Their Names, Lived And Wrought, And Over Which They Exercised A Commanding Influence And Never More Clearly Than In This Period Does It Appear How The Prophet, As The Messenger Of God, Combined The Twofold Function Of Preaching To His Own And, In A Sense, To Every Future Generation, And Of Intimating The Wider Purposes Of God In The Future There Is Not In The Prophetic Utterances Recorded Any One Series Of Admonitions, Warnings, Or Even Denunciations Which Does Not Lead Up To An Announcement Of The Happy Prophetic Future Promised In This Respect Prophecy Has The Same Fundamental Characteristic As The Book Of Psalms, In Which, Whatever The Groundnote, Every Hymn Passes Into The Melody Of Thanksgiving And Praise This Similarity Is Due To The Fact That, In Their Scriptural Aspect, The Progress Of Outward Teaching And The Experience Of The Inner Life Are Ever In Accordance On The Other Hand, There Is Not In The Prophetic Writings Any Utterance In Regard To The Future Which Has Not Its Root, And, In A Sense, Its Starting Point In The History Of The Time The Prophet, So To Speak, Translates The Vernacular Of The Present Into The Divine Language Of The Future, And He Interprets The Divine Sayings Concerning The Future By The Well-Known Language Of The Present As Between His Teaching And His Prediction, So Between The History Of The Present And That Of The Future There Is Not A Gap: They Are One, Because Through Both Runs One Unswerving Purpose Which Gradually Unfolds What From The First Had Been Enfolded And So History And Prophecy Also Are One, Because God Is One And So Also, If We Would Rightly Understand Them, Must We Study Not So Much Prophecies As Isolated Utterances, But As Prophecy In Its Grand Harmonious Historical Unity Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:CREATESPACEPublication Date:2015-02-19Weight:0.45 lbsDimensions:0.31'' H x 9.02'' L x 5.98'' WNumber of Pages:146Language:English

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