The world: historical and actual . he took care to re-move to a region of country remote from his ances-tral home. When, in later time, the history of theJews began to be written, the record was carriedback to the very morning of creation, and each gen-eration given from Adam down, together withmany details, such as the sacrifice of Abel, the wick-edness of the antediluvians, the Deluge, the Towerof Babel, and other incidents too familiar to bementioned here, but all of which, taken together,tended to strengthen the hold upon the children ofAbraham of the religious changes instituted, andout o
The world: historical and actual . he took care to re-move to a region of country remote from his ances-tral home. When, in later time, the history of theJews began to be written, the record was carriedback to the very morning of creation, and each gen-eration given from Adam down, together withmany details, such as the sacrifice of Abel, the wick-edness of the antediluvians, the Deluge, the Towerof Babel, and other incidents too familiar to bementioned here, but all of which, taken together,tended to strengthen the hold upon the children ofAbraham of the religious changes instituted, andout of which the distinctive nationality of the Jewsgrew, by a gradual process of development. Theoneness of the Deity, and Abrahams abhorrence ofhuman sacrifices, may be called the Joachim andBoaz of the Hebrew temple, the parent thoughts ofthe very nation itself. Isaac did not make anymarked contribution to the nationality. He lackedthe vigor and the personal power of his father Abra-ham, and his son Jacob, or Israel. The latter saw. Arrival of Jacobs Family in Egypt. his somewhat numerous family, with their vastflocks, comfortably quartered on the rich pastures ofLower Egypt—Goshen—while one of the sons wasprime minister of that great kingdom. That musthave been a proud day for the patriarch. But hewas not unmindful of the great mission of fidelityto Jehovah which his grandfather inaugurated, andwith his dying breath he besought his children to betrue to the great trust of nationality bequeathed tothem. His eye of faith saw his descendants wend-ing their way back from Egypt to Canaan, there tomake trial of a pure theocracy. It was four hun-dred years before that hope was realized. Someidea of what the Jews learned during those centu-ries may be inferred from a perusal of Egyptian history. How much of that time was spent in sla-very we know not, but it is safe to say that the He-brews had the full benefit of the discipline of bond-age, and also of association on terms of amity
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