A commentary on the Holy Scriptures Volume 2 ; critical, doctrinal, and homilectical, with special reference to ministers and students - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... of the law of moral distinctions. It will not be necessary to call special attention to all the individual ideas of the section. In the exegetical remarks we have already observed that the much misunderstood law of retaliation ("eye for eye," etc.) does not here appear to be dictated by a judicial demand for punishment, but by a desire strongly to express the inviolability of the dignity of man. 4. Ratification of the Covenant. Chap. zxiv. The legal covenant among the covenants between Jehovah and His people (Rom. ix.4).--The common feature of all covenants. All proceed from God as institutions of free grace. All presuppose a voluntary compliance on the part of men. In all of them God's faithfulness and free gift tower up above man's unfaithfulness and ncediness. But all of them may, through human unfaithfulness, be invalidated for generations. All have a peculiar character in reference to the divine promise and human obligation, although the promise is always God's word, and the obligation assumed by man is faith. In all of them the general object is heavenly salvation, but in every covenant this object has a special form. The series of successive covenants indicates the successive developments of revelation, or of the foundation of the kingdom of God. a. The great sacredness of the covenant, indicated by the several degrees of nearness of approach to Jehovah, vers. 1 and 2. It is one of the lofty strokes of Old Testament description, that Moses in his approach to God is made to disappear from the world. The priests do not attain the height of the prophet; they must worship from afar, and do not asoend one step higher than the seventy elders, the representatives of the people. The people who are represented by this Old Testament mediation are pr...
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