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trnifpf ? ' * " ' " '" ' ' ' ¦ * . /*¦ - •' . " ' ¦ W&cafiBot fojibw cW afchbr | through the whole otthCnarraJa ^ ejwluR ^ is well told , ® Snd aboftndkivitN sensible and useful , refleGHcp ^ amo ^ g , which we would parifculafly notice nts remarks on the treaqherpvis and ? cniel-conauct 6 f Jagl tQ # aras ^ ner victim Sisera , ^ nq ^ the lAhurnan saprmce . which Je |) htliaf ) iriadef pr ^ his dau & ^ ierira sacrifice utterly iricor \ si ^| ent fvf ith the lav ?' ' tfiUfterek by Moses , aha which plainly shewed that the fee ^ boo& ? , who of the or
had p ££ n raised ' t 6 Xhe cdjOTi ^ and armies w ^ eV ' ^ wa | 5 tainted with the horrid Idolltf y of I \ lbl 6 ch , and that the people who could witness it were equally ihfected . The ^ High driest could not have been concerned in the transaction , since Shiloh was in the tribe of Ephraim , with which Jephthah was at variance , and against which he made a murderous , expedition . The father was himself the orily priest on the unhallowed occasion . During the whole period from their settlement in Canaan to the ; establishment of the monarchy , the Hebrews
cc — were in one of the simplest forms of society . They had emerged from the state of the wandering shepherd , and were about to assume the moreS improved habits of-the agriculturist . Their civil government was closely modelled on the pattern of domestic rule which originally guided the affairs of each patriarch's family , while they were yet following their herds in the deserts of Syria . Their laws , too , respecting property were calculated to perpetuate that equality of condition which became the children of the ^ ame
father , and upon which the foundations of their commonwealth were laid . We find no distinctions of rank among them , but such as arose from age or office . Their magistrates were the elders of the people , assisted by the Levites , who expounded the law and enforced its sanctions j and their leaders in war were the princes and head , s of families , who were allowed to invite to a share in their command any individual whose skill and courage promised saccess in the field of battle . " '
We find not in the Judges any of those milder moral virtues which now qonstitute the grace and ornament of life ; they were appointed for offices which the peculiar circumstances of the people rendered necessary . The uncommon and supernatural strength of body and of mind which some of them possessed , were united with the fierce passions and gross manners of barbarians . We may admire the courage , the heroism of Gideon , Jephthah ,
or Samson , but there is nothing else in the characters worthy of imitation . All that can be said of them is , they were proper instruments for the work to which they were appointed . In theology alone , the Israelites were raised above all the other nations of the earth , though their practice to 6 frequently opposed ' their faith . They alone , in their public religion , avowed tjhe absolute unity of the Creator of all things , the simplest and the grandest truth that dver took possession of the human mind .
The second book contains Remarks on the History of the Oriental ftationsVas connected with that of the Hebrew People , and first of the Babylonians and Assyrians . Previous to the departure of the Israelites from Egypt / the Assyrian Empire extended in the South to the Persian Gulf , and th ^ deserts whkfh divide Media from the banks of the Indus . Our
author \ is disposed to attribute the character of fidelity and exactness to the listfc < of Babylonian" and Assyrian king's preserved b y Gtesjas ahd others ; first , ibecause the people of * the East , particularly the ? tribes of Arabia and Syria , have takfen gf ^ at pain ? to pr ^ setve their genealogies and the entire
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61 b Review . —Russell ' s Sacked and Profane ftktory .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 616, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/32/
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