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They were once the objects of hatred and detestation ; their names were associated with ignominy , and themselves were exiles from all the charities and sympathies of life . In modern times , however , they share in the protection of the state , and associate with their fellow-creatures on something of a footing of equality , and we trust the day is not far distant when the last of those badges that stigmatize them shall be for ever removed .
There is one defect in this work ; it may not be considered in the same light by others , but to our minds it appears a great omission ; we mean the small mention that is made of Christ and the various transactions of his ministry . We shall be told the work is professedly a history of the Jews ; and so it is ; but the advent of the Messiah is an integral part of Jewish history , and ought to have been particularly noticed and commented upon .
This grand event was the consummation of the Jewish economy , and a complete view of Jewish history should contain a full and circumstantial account of it . Josephus explains the fulfilment of prophecy in Vespasian , and our author ought to have shewn how Jesus was the prophet promised from the earliest times . The ministry of Christ was in itself an important event in the domestic history of Jerusalem , and we do think the omission detracts from the unity and completeness of the work .
The interest of the work would have been heightened had it contained more details of the domestic and literary history of the Jews . We are presented with several apologies for the passing over of this on the ground , that the object of the publication is merely historical : but there was no sufficient reason why our author should thus restrict himself ; for history includes within its scope these points . The literary history of the Jews is curious , and some very interesting details might have been given respecting their sentiments in theology and philosophy . They brought several new opinions from the place of their captivity ; and the notice of these , so far from being foreign to his object , was , in our judgment , intimately connected with it .
But we say no more : these omissions are , after all , light in the balance . We thank the author for what he has done , and for the ability with which he has done it , and promise our readers , more especially the younger part of them , much gratification and much profit from the perusal o ( his volumes . Lancaster , April , 1830 .
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Parents and nestlings ! are ye flown ? Here is your bed of moss and down FalTn from its lofty bough . Here ye first saw the light , Here tried your earliest flight . Where are ye now ?
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The Forsaken Nest . 383
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THE FORSAKEN NEST .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1830, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2585/page/23/
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