. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. e poly-theistic phraseology of the Chaldees,Assyrians, and Babylonians is, for themost part, to be interpreted. Very different from this, however,was the polytheism of the Hindus,Greeks, and Romans. Here the differ-ent powers of nature were not regardedas
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. e poly-theistic phraseology of the Chaldees,Assyrians, and Babylonians is, for themost part, to be interpreted. Very different from this, however,was the polytheism of the Hindus,Greeks, and Romans. Here the differ-ent powers of nature were not regardedas referable to a single source of activity THE IIEJIRI- 11S. —Ri-:iJGIOX. 309 and will, but to many sources. Therewere independent powers in tlie heavens,Meaning of poly- on the earth, and in theth:Se: sea. These concepts didRomans. not answcr to the attributes of one supreme power, but to manypowers scattered afar, and frequently atwar the one with the other. Certainlythere was a subordination in the hier- or Rimmon for Jehovah, or it was theworship of an linage or likeness of God. Both of these things were character and detestable to the higher g^^rwUoLreligious sense of the He- tries,brews. It was against their severeorthodoxy. With them, in their best es-tate, Elohim must be worshiped withthe name of Jehovah. He was Jehovah-. HKBREW IDOLATRY.—Sacrificing to the Egyptian Ai-is archy of the gods. vSome were greaterand some less. The greatest of all wasin a measure supreme ; but he was overthe rest in the sense that a great king isover smaller kings and princes. The idolatry into which the Hebrewpeoples fell once and again was notproperly a degeneration into was either the substitution of the falsename for the true, as, for instance, Moloch El, the God of his people. To substi-tute another name was idolatrous; but itwas hardly polytheistic. It was not lawful, in the second place,to worship Jehovah under the guise ofany image or similitude. This form ofador
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