. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. ^^^^^P^ [Rending Clothes.] time of leaving Egypt), until none of them remained alive. From this extraordinarydoom, which fixed to every man the extreme limit of his possible existence, and avowedlygave time no object but their deaths, Joshua and Caleb were excepted. Thus the two onwhom they were about to inflict death, were destined to survive them all, and to become thechiefs and leaders of the new generation, on whom the inheritance of the promises was todevolve. The other ten spies, whose discou
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. ^^^^^P^ [Rending Clothes.] time of leaving Egypt), until none of them remained alive. From this extraordinarydoom, which fixed to every man the extreme limit of his possible existence, and avowedlygave time no object but their deaths, Joshua and Caleb were excepted. Thus the two onwhom they were about to inflict death, were destined to survive them all, and to become thechiefs and leaders of the new generation, on whom the inheritance of the promises was todevolve. The other ten spies, whose discouragements had formed the proximate cause of theinsurrection, were smitten by some sudden death, in which the people recognised a punishmentfrom God. The people were thus made sensible of the folly of their past conduct. But this con-viction had not, in the first instance, any salutary operation. For tliey attributed this doomto the cowardice they had displayed, rather than to its real cause,—their distrust of thesufficiency of their Divine King to perform the promises he had made. Therefor
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