. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. circumstances, among which may be reckoned the fact that Isaachimself had been supplied from thence, together with the natural partialities of Rebekah forher own family in Padan-Aram. If no other course were proper in this generation, neitherwould any other have been so in the next; and yet not one of Jacobs twelve sons took a wifefrom the house of Laban. After that, the question became simplified; for the sons anddaughters of these twelve sons could and did intermarry. But notwithstanding this vie
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. circumstances, among which may be reckoned the fact that Isaachimself had been supplied from thence, together with the natural partialities of Rebekah forher own family in Padan-Aram. If no other course were proper in this generation, neitherwould any other have been so in the next; and yet not one of Jacobs twelve sons took a wifefrom the house of Laban. After that, the question became simplified; for the sons anddaughters of these twelve sons could and did intermarry. But notwithstanding this view ofthe matter, exonerative of Esau, it was doubtless for wise purposes that while the heirship ofthe promises was still vested in a single person, that person should be compelled by circum-stances so to marry as to obviate all danger of that intermixture of the chosen line with evenproximate tribes, which it was a part of the divine plan to prevent. Dates.—We are now arrived at the year of the Avorld 3495, the year before Christ 1916;the year of Isaac , the year of Esau and Jacob [Oriental Shepherds.] f IIAP. Ill] NOTES TO ABRAHAM AND ISAAC. •71 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. () Circumcision, p. 53.—Although the his-ti iry of this very remarkable rite has receivedmuch attention, and vast quantities of writingli;tve been expended upon it, it would be hardU) say that it is not fairly entitled to all thenotice it has obtained. Even were it less pro-minent in all the history of the Jewish people,the importance which a large part of the world,even to this day, attaches to a rite in itself sosingular, would render it a subject well worthy ! of consideration. The first point, and that which has provokedthe largest measure of discussion, is involvedin the question,—Whether the rite of circum- , cision, as commanded to Abraham, was anoriginal institution, and its existence amongother people is to be assigned to this source, orthat it, previously to this institution, existed inan
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