A History of Western Philosophy

have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the ...

exile, an orthodoxy much more rigid and much more nationally exclusive than that which had prevailed while they were independent ...

as a result of Persian influence. His prophecies of the Messiah were, later, the chief Old Testament texts used to show that the ...

involved fighting in actual Jewish territory, and left the Jews, for a long time, to the free exercise of their religion. Their ...

Antiochus became involved in war with Egypt, the Jews rebelled. Thereupon Antiochus took the holy vessels from the Temple, and p ...

made high priest, was allowed to occupy Jerusalem with a garrison, and conquered part of Samaria, acquiring Joppa and Akra. He n ...

them. When they refused, he showed them the instruments of torture. But they remained unshakable, telling him that he would suff ...

earliest being slightly before the time of the Maccabees, and the latest about 64 B.C. Most of it professes to relate apocalypti ...

course known from the Bible in its earlier portions, and from history in the later parts. Then the author goes on into the futur ...

mecum" (op. cit., pp. 291-2). We find in this book such precepts as the following: "Love ye one another from the heart; and if a ...

of the letter of the Law, it soon ceased to offer scope for the development of such a lofty system of ethics as the Testaments [ ...

Legends arose about the Septuagint, so called because it was the work of seventy translators. It was said that each of the seven ...

CHAPTER II Christianity During the First Four Centuries CHRISTIANITY, at first, was preached by Jews to Jews, as a reformed Juda ...

erate the world from the false teaching of Moses. Those who held this view combined it, as a rule, with a Platonic philosophy; P ...

and prophets, who were holy men, and had foretold the coming of Christ; but when Christ came, the Jews failed to recognize Him, ...

That all men, and even devils, shall be saved at the last. Saint Jerome, who had expressed a somewhat unguarded admiration of ...

* Origen, Contra Celsum, Bk. I, Ch. II. -328- right, those derived from Hebrew sources were the most effective. The argument is ...

"1. The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewi ...

The Hebrew prophets, some of them, taught the resurrection of the body, but it seems to have been from the Greeks that the Jews ...

rewarded in heaven and sin punished in hell. Their sexual ethics had a strictness that was rare in antiquity. Pliny, whose offic ...