The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-21
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m.ndS hes to keep Tho sso
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keeping BOY Toe Ssobsa day. Wn,aa Of Ihse EeS-sas
spess,d upon '',he tables OF sspos" upoa enc, soe
e"n netomef srre e'itsenY rna' ban c,ac oot bays
| been there We msy b. morally csrtsia Christ has
sSs-.' d the ques,'oo.
sno the faas is .oissrs one Of a css-,y implied
o.pi 10Y Cnrs az ,he iofsunitY NJ TOO ie gao Strip
tores M, toscos rejec'ea soen ~oo,s frc,o
mere por .'oos Of me lac yn'co M p>d come
"bo, 10 destpy, bus so uid" And aid, "sssro shs
scriptures for 'bey terniy of me;' toto
were IN srafob' ID tbe psooer 1T tbs sord
| Sere no. 20 receve everything bst sad oy
| 'tem ~ old nm1' ss ,es word OF Coz, but q"
| f'uember that ~nn Scriptures "prodixbs for doc
,s're, sxaor'stoo aud reproof," there might IN tns
lapse 81 sges he ID xeJ W. human Traditions ,sssa
'oDs; sbd hey tn Jnege Of these the
God nso gwen 10 sheD Ee addressed n nsef, not Ia
'bose ~bom ceoohy sbt superstition mad reodered on,
eat out sno@e who ma eyes h..r
sdatestiug ,bem 900 .wuy Of yoar
| sc Juaee ye OCT ~nst rieaY" duke XII. Of }
| 10 suer uuss La,beF r,and 90 tba same
sroopo Christ, ~tn regard "a toe authority N toe
fsthee cas- o. ne recs,ved but received with qus,s
csno.s; ard that no bsrrea such oe~e-y
os.n 70 tb- poussj derts of time C.s suff
cue 1xou spd II was TO- th1seh,y aod .s,nsay As
hs ines srsc "a te syea of zes0te that be
| rsi.ec Va the
r.o iurtnsr at cces OF Cor,svs comm nj. uoop the
jewish scriptures WI cooaf IN At oOts,es
entertained b, cpr,st requesting Toe
| n .is asoous's ~es the ,o,"~,ns:-
ser. ~ !, eSos !" pa.s sha .s" aes o NO " s.,s,
s'ss ,s.s s's e him sr s Sa'o
$40 sweh her hand AND SEM her os Of hs houseDsur
| ins s"pmur mose OF getting rid Of wife, ~t,oo1
luote or jury, might sisunie sh0ut nucu ref
aoco not hsve been o. oivue appon ueot we
hBo u ,Gtte Boo. out doubt could exs, scs
s0tJet. Cbfs' removes In repy 10 t5e Q1estoo, ala
awtu 'or man 70 put away ais ~e for every causeS
| ne san:-
so~ss the hsrdpss. you
put ws-s bui from the Des'aaiogn r.s not
soul1ry srei-s
Ger sb,cb n -sy, dosa adultery Xix:
The peEt example IA & on Exojns:-
any 'ouos then give life M.
eye SCR eye h fr os hsod for a>nd loot for loot burn
ing rn burning. sound wound stripe FOR s,rpeXx Is
rnese ujupc.ons repeated, almost verbatim, b,t5
IN Legivcus sne Deaer onoWy ba 80 mud sbem formally
ta,ived by Christ
pshsve hsh eye an eye a.d
tOof for toute, out ant, thst 80
| lbe other so -Mstt 20
Tnis f. ca toe teaching OF Coris, goes To-
heyoD0 the s0rogaioo o. Out he 90
rurDre himself " ,ns ,u emec of
nf s'npy seo'pg them oy others OF ATE sioi
e's-r 70 ,he oi toe He 'he
trDe Of retaliation absolutely false oocsroe, ho pats
dosD stem ami rets up another TOT ally opposite
| snc moral principles are eerpsi-ss God cauuot
contfsocs b, 11ss,f-ss tie human mind the
IN ,he sme OF Chris, train rad beeo Thousand yesrs
iatore-u fonoss Christ Knew, AMI wished bis die
cipss 10 uno.rs'snd, that the Law Of eye for
aye, and TOOTH tor toOth MAD been divine
1psnce lot outstanding toe fact that sppears smolg
lue Mv-ss
The Je .,sh scr pures are mscena,eoos COLLECTION Of
sriubes some o, them possibly the Oldest exstng
IA The ~ofiJ We YOU'D STEAK or them Christ
Of seem, Nio alton and sespsct they vau>
he Tor the simpss hey h ,rd rs OF distant pasS for
the historical Other tuAns 20 Cleaned from them
aud ali ru'o il the word Of God bus wood
toem as Cbrs. eceived them, III discriminating Spirit
rs writings Of mixed s0thor'y; and let add
3crd or t~o on this part OF subject for when
quoted British Leis, az II
pat parcel OF the laws Of Christian country
obviously high time thai pubic should tsugo,
70 regard ,be hooks the o. Testament in their true
hsbi-lhe beot 10 which they were regarded by tbs
| icuDdes OF our religion
Of them especially the books OF the Pent.teuch
ffAen mani. tho thureh nf uht
npknoep' Certain pArs OF ''the books Of Noses"
may have been written ~ Moses, but there ia
sney only called the Of concern,ns Moses
becsuse they relate 20 10 which ne largely
concerned tit quito certain that Moses did no.
the which appears the last chapters Of
toncmy, Of hrs death aud burial Mount ssgah;
member could be have the historian massacres
OF and children sscr,be1 TO him aud ut the
time the author Of toe landAtory paragraph that he
we're upoo the fsse of the esr.o" 1sumsers xii. a.
There 10 abundant internal evidence thai the books OF
Moses -ere written by different individuals and far
this not against them, because the concurrent tes
Go0ny OF many better than that OF one but the
! denos also elbows that portion OF them aud We
| sfter the periods 70 which they relate For ex.
ampe the reference In the 36th chapter Of Genesis
Gsbe siDes of Israeli" written by some
who lived the deaths Of Noses Josaus
he time Of the Jnoges when there we're no kings OF
Dis eyes, Numerous similar incidental illusions 70
events which had Dot Tapepired in the time Of Moses
betr,y the han of later hissorias or and
the NOS. able cobectures that formed Of
these records is that they consist Of compilation Of all
The old documents oa could be found after the captivity,
relating T. the early history Of the Jews put together
the Scribe and others, and nterspersed by them
stb illustrative commentaries and Variations founded
Previous captivity the Jewish records had rot
been very carefully preserved Ger just preceding that
high priest, il mentioned i'm oortant discovery G.
KDgs, xxl. 81 After the CAPTIVITY, read Of
alter ,nsir return, and with great esssrnsss
20 hear the book Of the law expouhued by
would be 10 great demand and IS the period was one
snen the busness Of the scribe had become q regular
profession, OF the Old records would he multiplied
aud written versions Of Old traditions would be exten
ssely circulated This will explain M n,erous repeu
nons tn toe 90 Testament Of the same narrative, With
differences Of style and variations IN the facts they
were originally independent narratives, by dsren,
thos, written rolls Of papyrus passing from
naBd TO hand, but ultimately getting fastened together
and s,srleaved sometimes out OF their proper place,
the same we bind up tracts relating 10 the
subject etn more or less of order IN the arrangement
The two fsst apters Of instances in point
They contain two histories Of the creaton perfectly OILS
nct history with third verse of the second
chapter, and then another begins by different writer
9Th the ~oros Cbese the generations Of the heavens
ana Of the earth The one account in speaking Of Goc
uses the word Eohm throughout in the other it is
raby Jehovah Eohim translated "the Lord CODY; the
more because in the sixth chapter Of Exodus
known to Abraham Isaac aud Jacob By the OF Jeho
yah, bat by tba. Of Shaddai, tho Almighty The
count Describes creation the work of days. the other
that OF day the words being the day that the
Lord GOO made the heavens aud the earth The first
count says mat God created man. male and female sep,
upon the story OF the rib, and states that the fruit OF
| every tree yielding seed gver to the aud toe
woman for meat. The seconi account makes excep
ten OF sbe fruit Of the tree Of Wedge OF good and evil
tree which IL would bave easy have excluded
from the garden in which the man snd woman
placed, but whish was permitted are old TO grow
there, as II to expoue them 10 the temptation
The story OF the serpent reads like one Of those
numerous myths which arose, 10 the manner have al
ready explained opt Of the zoo embems. In ancient
Egyptian astronomical tabeaux, Scorpto Ia usn-
ally represented ls serpent; and the constellation Her
n
timer the serpent drawn curled tree, aud
Virgo a. woman standing near The woman is vsrously
represented as holding apple In her hand child ia
arns, opening box and careesng the serpent. The
apple was per haps embcmscs Of the OF orchard
truit or the round bail 10 called might ha been org
psliy intended for the moon, and the woman for ISIS II
was as woman IN short mans coat, with bali in
her haDd thai the Goddess Of the Moon represented
by Saxon ancestors ard the Tho box
the boz Of Pandora Tae ancient