The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-08

Poe3ess taplet Npcn WaIhs wy .u
Injustice: If The King takes the money OF
the people Of Babylon In order to place It IN
his treasure house, and II he then hears the
law-oeHes Of the Bsby lonisns and allows
himself to be turned by fsTerit,sm, IN ms ~,
his enemy against him and give his poses
sdons and his treasure to his foe In the
matter Of love for our neighbor, pity OF
others, as has been REMARKED ahesdy,
there h no gap between Babylon ana ths
There Is here q short depression on the
The Babylonian Noah with his wife Is
placed among the detiee; that would n
inconceivabls In Israel. About the pM-
grimase TO Jerusalem for the harvest e.;
thou shalt rejoice before the Lord. thy God,
thou and thy son and thy daughter ana
thy man-servant and thy maic-serv ant
Where II the wife' The position OF woman
In Israel was a subordinate one from rh,s,-
f fTom p tbe as o e W" Te.ts%ent ssrdly SIN
gle girls name that bears witness
heartily, as Ii ufuel with the boys nance,
to the Joyous thanks to Jehovah for the
birth Of child. All the tender pet nance
for girls cannot concea! the Iec: nS
later OF her husband; she is a useful force
Of labor, on whom In marriage the greater
part Of the hardest household business "
put; she h, moreover. a. In lelsm. UNI!
10 practice religion. This was sn d,nereh'
In Hammurabis time, who had their chairs
carried into the temple; we find the names
OF women az with ~ IS In law documents,
and so forth. II Is easy to see from tne
very treatment Of the woman question now
nnced ~ he non-s.mitic civilization Of
tho Stimeriens.
PROT Deiitzsch then defends certain forms
Of worxhip and certain sculptures, IKE tne
Goddess 81 childbirth. from the ACQUISITION
Nevertheless, a concluding observation
seems far more important to me. when
has not received sufficient attention In my
opinion, In the proclamation Of the ethical
monothe.srn" OF Israel. or the spirit OF the
Prophets' az real Revelation OF the Nv
inr Cod
Five times q dav, and still oftener.
does the devout Moslem repeat the 'P1ter
Nos.er" OF Islam. the frst Sura OF the
Ko an Which ends with the words: Leao
us lAllahl on the right way. the way OF
those to whom You has shown merry.
who are not smitten with wrath like the
Jews and who do not 90 astray lhke
the Christians. :" The Hoslern alone receives
favor from Allah, III alone IA picked out by
God 10 pray to the true God and TO worship
him, all other men and peoples are 'ka1runi
unbeiieve 3, whom God has not prsdesine9
to eternal salvation. Precisely thus ana
not otherwise, grounded deep In the national
feelings OF the Semitcs. IL the Jehovah
worship OF Israel In the periods before
and after the Exile. Jehovah h the true
and highest God. but he Is At the same
time the @ d only and exclusively OF islai
Israel Is his chosen pa pl.. and his inheri-
heatAen. given up by jehovah hinnseh
to Ciodlessness or 70 idolatry. That IL
a doctrine that simply cannot be com
bined with our enlightened conscious
,ndisguised language In the ninetesnth
and twentieth VERSES Of the fou'th CHAP
ter Of De,rteron my, whioh annihi'ates
at once the phantasm Of an original
revelation And lest thou lift UP
thine eyes unto heaven. and when thou
stars even all the host Of heaveo. shouldest
be driven to worship them, and serve them,
which the Lord, thy God. hath divided unto
all nations under the whole heaven. But
the Lord hath taken you, and broueht
YOU forth out OF the iron furnace. even
out Of Egypt. 10 be uric MIN gecRse O. ~
ship Of s,ars and Of idols BY peoples under
the whole heaven is, according 20 TINS
the will and command OF jehovah himself
All the more frightful then II Jehovahs
order Deuteron my WI. . 70 exse I've n,.n
nations which Israel finds In Canaan.
on account Of their eodlessness. - IA told
in verse 10: And thou shAh cors,une all
the people " hich the Lord thy God shail
deliver thee; thine eye sl'ah have no pity
upon th.m.' 49,,
This national. local monothe.sn. which
in the nature Of things cannot appear In
portions hike the story OF the Creation.
but which otherwise indisputsbly permeates
the whole Old Testament from Sinai on;
Il am the Lord, thy God 10 the second
zecha riah's prophecy, viii. Is: Thus saith
the lord OF hosts: In those days II shall
come 10 pass that ten men shall take hold
out Of all languages ~ the nations lGoJim,.
even shall Jake hold Of the skirt Of him that Is
h We head Ina, God y with you This
Inonotheism which. tor example. oven Paul
(Ephssians u, ~ accepts. which left all other
nations for thousands Of years without
hops' and without God In the world, IL 10
diliouIt TO consider a. revealed by the holy
noxlssd from our childhood BY this dogma
of the ssole commonwealth OF Israel.' that
Ne look at the history OF the ancient world
from q wholly distorted angle. and are even
nov ready 70 accept the pan Of the
h iSs : :o ' sssS f;oo os' p. S X
New Testament times, beginning with
Johs sks naptist and Jesus's sermon. that
droa,atio contest be,ween Jewry,. Jew.
ChH9llsas and Gentle hristianS, III Peter
couIA eHclaim iActs L.. S-ss): 'Of truth
pssesive tat God " no respecter of per-
sons: But In every nation he that fearsth
Him and worketh righteousness. is ae,epted
y III Him. and thereby tore down the par.
tltlon het wen the Ortcnt al. Israeli,e and the
Christian philosophical theories ~ HE.
Personally. my b.lisf y thai tls- sncseni
"ss sScsor IL r:sssi.ds sdiiass az u
wriiingS p-rme tied by The 'r.v.sied'
sririt vii Alway- pns--rv. their great Ina
,ar,anes, tsst esilnriy - IL NJ tho sols monu.
neit a " nd ~ q IelIgiouslh stofiosi proc
e.s thai has Leen snlaasious even into our
osn il,ns I,s Hotas gsss.ss,s IN tbs
pvopbsts anS Palm iuil M hsisg uvsi W
God snd ~ y~srisas fos p-~sas la bssi. sL
alssys aud h,inN .s<so ~ s1 bssSts.
in sSsie III tls lsosl hniistions ~ iLsir
.,ps.-.iss. ssa ,ssir masniiy, si4sh hsss
l...n ios ihs srss,ss par 6ls,.d In ouf
s' e, s.s,. No.. y. r s W. X ' .ii
shall aass,s lsefsss ihs l1,sa. cad tss mT'
,sH y iasi ils' hlsh God shall ] nsans b.
~ yraI olii Nih lLs l.sss ls ~ s~sd
ssis,- ~ Iiss's q aili kssh Siss. 49,
fsaAsfg ls sas lssirkfs.ssi, ~. bAl
~ l,k i.sdy f,g IN slH ~ niy sslulf w.