The Bible and its story.. (1908) (14586269470)

Identifier: bibleitsstory1316horn (find matches)
Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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O AMICONI, WHO PAINTED IN ENGLAND AND BECAME THE COURT-PAINTER OF SPAIN. And ihey saw the God of Israel.—Ex., 21^., 10. APPARENTLY God meant to lead His chosenpeople on from one beatitude to another. Afterthe covenant was confirmed, Moses went again upinto Mount Sinai, accompanied this time by over seventyof the chief men or elders of Israel. There they wor-shipped God and feasted before Him; and the Almightyrevealed Himself to their eyes, though dimly and not inHis full glory. Even what they saw was, however, too mighty, toowonderful for description. The biblical narrator marvelsthat they died not, and repeats in awe, also they sawGod, and did eat and drink. The single descriptivepassage of the scene does not touch on God Himself buton His surroundings: there was under his feet as it werea paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the bodyof heaven in his clearness. This was the most that any of the people of Israel, ex-cept Moses, ever saw of the actual presence of God. 11-53
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tKte ^atalets; (giben to iWosiesi AFTER THE PAINTING BY RAPHAEL, IN THE LOGGIAOF THE VATICAN. And he gave unto Moses, when he Imd made an end ofcommuning with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables oftestiviony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.—Ex., 31,18. LEAVING the elders, Moses went on alone to thesummit of Sinai. There he stayed in communionwith God forty days and forty nights. In all thattime no man saw Moses. The cloud into which he hadascended, remained continuously upon the mount. Joshua,the victor over Amalek, had become Moses personalattendant, and Joshua waited half way up the mount,just outside the cloud that enveloped that dread conference.The other Israelites abode far below, in wonder and infear. During these forty days Moses received many more lawsfor the regulation of the Hebrew state. On the fortiethday God gave unto Moses, when he had made an endof communicating with him upon Mount Sinai, thosetwo wonderful tablets recording His commands, tablesof stone