. The training of the Chosen people. Chapter 38. The Fulfilment of Doom 145 of her disloyalties was full. The destruction as well asthe protection of Jerusalem showed that there was aGod in Israel. And yet the purpose of the Most High was not ut-terly thwarted by the wrath of man. The ideas, thehopes, the faith that made Judah the nation of Je-hovah, the custodian of the highest revelation theworld had known, were guarded by the little colonyin Babylonia, and it was from this little group ofexiles, purged by trouble of the last traces of poly-theism, that there came the splendid light of the l
. The training of the Chosen people. Chapter 38. The Fulfilment of Doom 145 of her disloyalties was full. The destruction as well asthe protection of Jerusalem showed that there was aGod in Israel. And yet the purpose of the Most High was not ut-terly thwarted by the wrath of man. The ideas, thehopes, the faith that made Judah the nation of Je-hovah, the custodian of the highest revelation theworld had known, were guarded by the little colonyin Babylonia, and it was from this little group ofexiles, purged by trouble of the last traces of poly-theism, that there came the splendid light of the Jeremiahs Grotto. 146 Old Testament History CHAPTER OF CHAPTERS 27-38. Several important truths are brought into a clearlight when we examine, in a broad way, the three cen-turies and a half of Hebrew history which intervenebetween the division of the kingdom on the death ofSolomon and the destruction of Jerusalem by Neburchadnezzar. One is that the development of Israel is inex-tricably connected with the political institutions, theimperial ambitions and the colonial policies of the sur-rounding nations. Yon can no more isolate the his-tory of the Hebrews from contemporary movementsin other nations than you can isolate a tree from; thesoil in which it grows and have it remain a vital or-ganism. The rivalries of Phoenicia and Damascus,of Egypt and Assyria, of Assyria and Babylon, and ofBabylon and Egypt register themselves as clearly inthe history of the Hebrew kingdoms, recorded in theOld Testament as the leagues between Germany, Aus-tria and Italy on the one hand, and b
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