The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . is division was overruled for the general good. The Samaritancopy of the law has been carefully preserved, and the enmity betweenthe Jews and themselves has made both parties the more jealous for thepurity of their respective texts. The Samaritans were free, also, fromthe pride and narrowness too prevalent among their, neighbors. Ofspurious descent themselves, and despised by those around them, theyhad probably a more just appreciation of the comprehensiveness of theGospel. They regarded all nations as entitled to an inter
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . is division was overruled for the general good. The Samaritancopy of the law has been carefully preserved, and the enmity betweenthe Jews and themselves has made both parties the more jealous for thepurity of their respective texts. The Samaritans were free, also, fromthe pride and narrowness too prevalent among their, neighbors. Ofspurious descent themselves, and despised by those around them, theyhad probably a more just appreciation of the comprehensiveness of theGospel. They regarded all nations as entitled to an interest in itsblessings. They accordingly received from our Lord one of the earliestexpress intimations that he was the Messiah (John iv.), and were other-wise frequently noticed by him in the course of his ministry. As they received only the Pentateuch, it is peculiarly interesting to a This name was unknown to Christians before the 14th century^L-ardner). It is given, however, in Ma;.monides (A. D. 1200), and it iscertain that the class existed in the days of our THE GOSPELS. 618 notice the passages m which to this day, they rest their belief on thecoming of a Saviour. They point to Deufc xviii. 15-19^ and concludethat he is the Saviour of the world from Gen. xii. 3; xxii. 18; xxvi. 4;xxviii. 14, etc. After the time of our Lord three sects sprang up among them; ofwhich two, founded bv Simon Magus and his pupil Menander, survivedfor centuries, and were often confounded by heathen writers withChristians. 128. These sects, it may further be observed, are not isolated pheno-mena, confined to the countries or times in which theyappeared They exhibit human nature throughout all exhibit thetime; and the precepts and truths which were adapted to onmman3their condition are not less adapted to ourselves. Dature. CHAPTER V. THE GOSPELS.—INTEODUCTOEY. 129. We .now come to the New Testament, the fullest andlatest revelation of God. The ancient dispensation nothing perfe
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