. The training of the Chosen people. the missionary purpose ofthe Christian church than the aim of any other worldconqueror, with the possible exception of Napoleon I,who betrayed a somewhat similar ideal when he said,I propose to make the Mediterranean a French is evident then, at a glance, that during the peri-od of the Greek domination the loyalty of the Hebrewsto their traditions, their worship and their racial in-tegrity was tested in the severest fashion. The definite and sharp issue between fidelity to thelaw of Jehovah and acceptance of Greek morals andworship was presented to
. The training of the Chosen people. the missionary purpose ofthe Christian church than the aim of any other worldconqueror, with the possible exception of Napoleon I,who betrayed a somewhat similar ideal when he said,I propose to make the Mediterranean a French is evident then, at a glance, that during the peri-od of the Greek domination the loyalty of the Hebrewsto their traditions, their worship and their racial in-tegrity was tested in the severest fashion. The definite and sharp issue between fidelity to thelaw of Jehovah and acceptance of Greek morals andworship was presented to Jerusalem in the year 168 b. c. Antiochus Epiph-anes, who had usurpedthe throne of Syria,found his plans againstEgypt checked by theveto of Rome. As onein anger turns his the first personat hand, Antiochuswreaked his rageagainst Rome on theJews. He demanded theextinction of their re-ligion, the destructionof their sacred booksand the substitution in the temple at Jerusalem of theworship of Zeus for the worship of Head of Antiochus Epiphanes. Chapter 50. Judatis Loyalty to Jehovah 189 The very enormity of this demand aroused the heroicdevotion of the Hebrews to their traditions and theirworship. The dreadful test revealed the stubborn fi-delity of the Jews to their religion. When we recallhow often in the past the nation had forsaken Jehovah,under the enticements of Canaanitish and Egyptian andAssyrian idolatry, we have in this sudden and tremen-dous outburst of passionate loyalty to Judaism anamazing revelation as to the real measure of the na-tions response to the claims of Jehovah. The episodeof the three Hebrews in Babylon who refused to wor-ship the image of Nebuchadnezzar, was repeated on anational scale when Jerusalem repudiated the gods ofGreece. The career of the Maccabean princes—Mattathiasand his sons, Judas, Jonathan and Simon—marks oneof the most stirring and heroic epochs in Hebrew his-tory. Our fathers, who had the books of the Mac-cabees
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