. The Bible and modern discoveries . ring hope to the oppressed. If politicians in ourday, faced by so many problems which demand solution, wouldbut study the Mosaic institutions, they would the better beable to reconcile those conflicting claims which threaten suchdanger to the commonwealth. CHAPTER III. JOSHUA. Moses, the great law-giver, the founder ofJewish poHtics, beingdead, a different agentis chosen by have heard ofJoshua the son ofNun before. Nowhe steps into thefront rank, for hiswork is that of thesoldier, in whom isthe Spirit ( 18). Thoughthe Israelites wereDiv
. The Bible and modern discoveries . ring hope to the oppressed. If politicians in ourday, faced by so many problems which demand solution, wouldbut study the Mosaic institutions, they would the better beable to reconcile those conflicting claims which threaten suchdanger to the commonwealth. CHAPTER III. JOSHUA. Moses, the great law-giver, the founder ofJewish poHtics, beingdead, a different agentis chosen by have heard ofJoshua the son ofNun before. Nowhe steps into thefront rank, for hiswork is that of thesoldier, in whom isthe Spirit ( 18). Thoughthe Israelites wereDivinely led, yet Godworks through man, and He selects His agents according tothe work required. The work now to be done requires quite adifferent leader to Moses. God buries His agents, but carrieson His work. We may note here how often a soldier isselected for commendation in holy writ. Joshua is a spendidtype of a whole-hearted follower of the Lord ; the motto of hislife, the secret of his success, he gives in his last brave words :. JOSHUA. 143 Choose you this day whom ye will serve ... as for me andmy house, we will serve the Lord. Before we enter into theconsideration of his conquests, it will be well to glance at thestate of Palestine in his day. We know that when Abrahamwent through the land he found the Canaanite and the Periz-zite. That at Hebron he bought the Cave of Machpelah fromthe Hittite Ephron. But yet the country could not have beenthickly inhabited, for he and Lot do not seem to have en-countered any opposition when they divided the land at says : Let there be no strife between me and thee,and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen. The otherinhabitants would seem not to have objected. Then howcomes it that when the spies go up from Kadesh Barnea theyon their return to the camp report : The people be strongthat dwell in the land, and the cities are walled and verygreat?* and further we shall see that as Joshua enters the * Lachish (Josh. x. 5) was o
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