Solomon and Solomonic Literature by Moncure Daniel Conway

Author:Moncure Daniel Conway [Conway, Moncure Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781404723450
Google: bvo0AAAAMAAJ
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Published: 1899-01-15T03:28:00+00:00

Chapter XIII.

Epistle to the Hebrews (A Sequel to Sophia Solomontos).

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In a Theocracy the birth of a new God was not the mere new generalization that it might be in our secularized century,—a deification of the Unknowable, for instance,—of not the slightest practical or moral interest to any human being. Judea was the bodily incarnation, even more than Islam is now, of a deity who said, “I am the Lord and there is none else; I form the light and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I the Lord do all these things.” The denial of such a deity, the substitution of one who required neither prayers, sacrifices, nor intercessions, could not be merely theoretical. It must involve the overthrow of a nationality which had no bond of unity except a book, and the institutions founded on that book.

Nor did the theocratic principle admit of a mere philosophical opposition to its institutions. He who touched that system was dealing with people who, in the language of “Sophia Solomontos” were “shut up in a prison without iron bars.” The natural advent of the anti-Jahvist was in the Temple and with the words—

He hath sent me to herald glad news to the poor,

He hath sent me to proclaim deliverance to captives,

And recovering of sight to the blind,

To set at liberty them that are bruised.

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