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The Beauty of the Old Testament
A simple sentence of thought offered for discussion
The Old Testament sets forth with divine clearness and power, on the one side,
God's faithfulness in the fulfilment of the promises and threatenings contained in the Mosaic law;
and on the other, the perverseness and rebellion of the people, and their perpetual relapses into idolatry,
with the mighty conflict thus inaugurated between the pure monotheism of the theocracy,
and the polytheism and image-worship of the surrounding heathen nations—a conflict which lasted
through many ages, which enlisted on both sides the great and mighty men of the world,
and which resulted in the complete triumph of the Mosaic law, at least so far as its outward form was concerned,
thus preparing the way for the advent of that great Prophet in whom the theocracy had its end and its fulfilment.
EP
The Old Testament sets forth with divine clearness and power, on the one side,
God's faithfulness in the fulfilment of the promises and threatenings contained in the Mosaic law;
and on the other, the perverseness and rebellion of the people, and their perpetual relapses into idolatry,
with the mighty conflict thus inaugurated between the pure monotheism of the theocracy,
and the polytheism and image-worship of the surrounding heathen nations—a conflict which lasted
through many ages, which enlisted on both sides the great and mighty men of the world,
and which resulted in the complete triumph of the Mosaic law, at least so far as its outward form was concerned,
thus preparing the way for the advent of that great Prophet in whom the theocracy had its end and its fulfilment.
EP
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