Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-11-18
and State, and the false notions of rank,
authority. dominion and dignity that have
come this source.

come I tnlS SOuTCG.
Destructive Criticism Destroyed.
The destructive critics say that the book of
Deuteronomy was written in the days of King
Josiah, and they give the book this date
because they say its protested predictions
must have b-en written after the historical
events which the author pretends to foretel.
Indeed, this method of disposing of questions
of date and authorship, is uniformly pursued
by class of the so.called higher critics.
Accepting this date for the moment. Prof. ].
w. Nj, Carney of the Bible College in Ken
lucky University, knocks the critics out on
two scores. First he says
There is at least one which would be clear case of
inspired prediction even had the book been written in
the days of Josiah.
Among the caamites to Israel which, in long and
awe-inspring series predicted in this chapter as
consequences of dsobedience, the Babyonan captivity
is clearly indicated in verses 36 and 81: Jehovah
shall bring thee and thy king which thou shalt
thee unto nation which thou hast not known, thou
thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods,
wood and stone And thou shalt become an astonish.
ment proverb, and byword among all the peoples
whittier Jehovah shall lead thee away That this
the Babylonian captivity is evident from the two
sideratons that they to be taken away with their
king which was only true of this captivity, and that
this to be done by nation which neither they nor
their fathers had known This last could be said of the
Babylonians, who had but recently come INFO power,
but not of the Assyrans, who had been lsraes oppes
sors for several generations and who had carried into
captivity the northern tribes. Even this prediction
could have been uttered in the eighteenth year of
Josiah, any previous date without miraculous fore
sight for first the Assyrian Empire, which Josiah
rendered allegiance had yet been overthrown by
the Babylonians, and human being could foresee
that it ever would be- Second, no human foresight
could reveal the future conquest of Judah by the Baby
. 1OnanS and. third. impossible to know before
hand that the Jews would be transported another
land and that their king should go into captivity with
them
But going still further with the ad
honiinen,, the Professor shows in the second
place that the destruction of Jerusalem,
which was effected by the Romans in 10
A. d., is clearly predicted in the book Here
are his citation from the prophesy and his
remarks upon it:
Jehovah shall bring against thee from far from the
end of the earth, as the eagle hieth, nation whose
tongue thou shalt not understand, nation of fierce
countenance who shall not regard the person of the
old show favor to the young; and he shall eat the
fruit of thy castle and the fruit of thy ground until thou
be destroyed; which also shall leave thee CORN wine
or OIL the increase OF thy kline, or the young of thy
shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and
throughout all thy land; and he shall besege thee in
all thy gates throughout thy land which Jehovah thy
God hath given thee And thou shalt eat the fruit OF
thy body, the flesh of thy and thy daughters
which Jehovah thy God hath given thee, in the siege