. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . s to be deposited. With such things the most serious ritualinferences were connected on both sides. A religion which spentits energy on such trivialities must have lowered the moral the more that Jesus insisted so earnestly, as the substance ofhis teaching, on that corruption of our nature which Judaismignored and on that spiritual purification which was needful forthe reception of his doctrine,— would he publicly and openlyset aside ordinances of man which diverted thoughts of purityinto questions of the most childish cha


. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . s to be deposited. With such things the most serious ritualinferences were connected on both sides. A religion which spentits energy on such trivialities must have lowered the moral the more that Jesus insisted so earnestly, as the substance ofhis teaching, on that corruption of our nature which Judaismignored and on that spiritual purification which was needful forthe reception of his doctrine,— would he publicly and openlyset aside ordinances of man which diverted thoughts of purityinto questions of the most childish character. On the other hand. ^i^O ALFRED EDERSHEIM we can also understand what bitter thoughts must have filled themind of the Pharisee whose guest Jesus was, when he observedhis neglect of the cherished rite. It was an insult to himself, adefiance of Jewish law, a revolt against the most cherished tra-ditions of the synagogue. Remembering that a Pharisee oughtnot to sit down to a meal with such, he might feel that he shouldnot have asked Jesus to his MAKIA Ei:)GEWORTH 5I5I


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