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
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ev., 16, 22. AMONG the strangest and most memorable of theceremonies commanded for the Hebrews wasthat of the scapegoat. Once every year, asan everlasting statute, were they commanded to assembleso as to offer a sacrifice of atonement for all their sins. Twohe-goats were brought before the high priest and, selectingone by lot, he slew it upon the altar; then the other wasbrought forth, and the high priests direction was that heshall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat,and confess over him all the iniquities of the children ofIsrael, and all their transgressions in all their sins, puttingthem upon the head of the goat, and shall send him awayby the hand of a fit man into the wilderness. The mystic tragedy of the fate of this poor goat tliusdriven forth alone into the wilderness, weighed down withall the sins of a nation, has always attracted both poetsand painters. Holman Hunts picture stands out asperhaps the most celebrated conceptionof the lonely burden-bearer. 11-70 n
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^!je plasipijemer ^unis!f)eb FROM THE BIBLICAL SERIES, BY GERHARD HOET, And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that theyshould hrinxj forth him that had cursed out of the camp, andstone him with stones.—Lev., 2^, 23. ANOTHER of the Levitical laws forbade blas-phemy, and we are told with full detail, how thislaw was first broken by the son of an Israelitishwoman, whose father was an Egyptian. Special careis taken to explain that the offender was not a full Israelite.He blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. Theman was brought before Moses, and Moses after directconsultation with God, commanded that the culpritshould be brought outside the camp, and there be stonedto death. An additional edict, too little heeded in our own day,was then announced against blasphemy. And he thatblasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be putto death, and all the congregation shall certainly stonehim: as well the stranger as he that is born in the land,when he blasphemeth the name of th

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