IP" "" ' ' " r"^ : ' " • ' " • '" : - " ¦" ¦ '¦¦ '' ! ' ' 'f J £ riis' •"¦ P ". ': .'¦ - I Krandeur. But how faint a. shadow fifcaouolfc feast at the-foot of Mount antecedent ; 'and ' that .lack excludes The Hebrew torn nta admits of many ^CEn 'W ^lHTO'ne'p The Halacha

AIfl0nUa.ll IsraO bo. M™ H *ot »*&>** it - »«.. w not ess wo^t^wiw.

«u are read ^ ^ffipVute jp, and Lord .„ ; nmpy aj m «nw mw n£imitate it feel your foUh etrehgthe^aY-your thug ma£e a Uw to ^t them— a law The Hebrew term pip for offering j tf , a ,,peculiar ity of Jew/i&theo*~* ' Here is a modern*poem on the sub-' hearts ^nfygorated , yqura unde/stand^-alfairrsFialin'f WS WWanolher , does not mean to offer something—a i0Ry that it htts, ,no sacraments in. thnBLOCK & CO., Publishers and Frop'ra. - * writ^n ,1)y ft womar. ' We have ih& enlightened , your hopes rejuve- paraphrased one wife to another , but bribe—to G.od, bu t it means the offer- Christian serifee f it the-term.~ r. " a \ a u\„ ^,,r h-,m„ K«rtt • nated and- vour - will stimulated to this is not read ing Scripture, but tor- ing being a symbol of the sinner s The Mishna in Kelim IL enumprISAAC M. WISE , - - - Em™, adopted it in our hymn-book . _t*KlS^S driving near to God. 0tes ten sacraments .|Pi IVitfHp S?SrfLEO WISE, - - Assistant Editor. 0n lhat appftll|ng morn i whHB Israel woke worship/Goa and"be6rtrne-his apostles

^^ Bucob8sI?j I>-?b Mr.^Uta in his The Hebrew term

mm does

«ot wh'iuh,^ .SabMK iihe 'tejn;rile'Ld' To hear the Lord 's omniscient decree ; of -charity and benignity to weeping interpretation of verse. 6th:' '/None of mean " the law," but it moans " the farael are the grt^test, but even' thevfliuniHu *Ti n iiimc o <oo< When , as though Heaven's loud thunder humanily ThiB will bring you the you shall approach to any IKAt is near doctrine," "the instruction." , ' ' are not treated a^bsolute sacrament«CINCINNATI , 0., JUNE 3, 1881 b

v£ylir Kre,v rife with mystery finest Good Yoktok. i lof-khn ;to'him,?' etc, whicn' he con The Hebrew term *3 . for Prophet by the Taliliud,". ' -V ; ¦; ¦; . .*»"«•*¦ whan Sinai 's Mount , involved in Are and strues as being a special law, refer does not mean a mail who foretells , A,B to the Sabbath and the'.templeTEKins of subscription. smoke. ring especially to the daug hter-awe but a riian from whom the spirit of the Talmud , .in Yebamoth tV." says'th* AMKRicAN liiBAKLmt , with German Outswelled the aspiring eager of the Ton m« amwicas ibbabli«, which is remitted in the following God emanates, respect them for the sake of God' whosuppiomenv per annum , - - «5.oo «ea-r . .' . . , Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister., specifications. ,Ho BUKReW Jim's in- The Hebrew term : fJTWi does not instituted them, '.b'iit-rioi'fbr th'eir ftww ¦ ¦¦'-^^iRg^SMSx11

^0*4.00 ™> M ™y th»me: "re8Unl,n* to8k l t0 l i ;. ¦:;; , ^v ¦'' ¦ „ ^

ii mmimiriWmmeisn- 'w& :*i6 - 'mrM :i :-*tm^f ^ ^ . 0. ^ 6l?no' 2.00 The praise of Israel's Ood, his everlasting . : IV18 ^known that the' EnglisTi desiastic'o fl^D teaches^Yalkut ' Kedosliim:i ;; JT£PQ«fage to Europe, pot annum. ¦ i.04 Kini? law prohibits marriage wun tne ae- omissibn. oj the; daughter-case theit The Hebrew term nplV has nothing Bible does not say/\and l have separ-bates fob ADVERTisEBitanTs. ceased wife s sister. Moderni England argument that the specification s 6i -m common with the common defini- ated the nations from you," but it(H..L.... O* a.*.*,. 0!

Mvrlrfo

ru8PBoL^a 'I ^ aZ &¥ u ^'"pp " "" ^\VW J *F,mf defective, which tion given to it, alms-giving, but it says : "And I have separated vouone square, one insertion. - - 11 go Q^^X^'hTm ?- wUh an angoVs ?,tnct,on' ™* the Houm of Commone defefr?they ^^me^./bylxtend- mea„b8 to designate that ofiarity a< from the nations," that is to intimateoSSaSa ffiryrSSih-. " ¦ " ¦' SS

0 h t ™? heara ,l,m g fas r^eatedly pas^ab.ll of

repeal,,^one square, stx monthB , - - - ig » Fr0m yon triump hal wonder-paven out tne isench ot iiisnops in tne up- this chapter to the sixty degrees of implies that the rich manl is the stew- separated, but that the better elementcZX^tarTrautioniand OMtuarie.. a w vault , ' per House has in. each case sue- the Engi[8h table pf prohibited mar- ar(f of the poor, and that the poor man may at any time come .and join Juda-MartWs, Births , ncaths. each notice , - i oo Como clothed in wisdom to commune with cecded in turning the scale against riages. has a rightful claim on the rich man's ism.ah Btwtne*. t.mr. .hquid ta ad. And 'bfd so near their tents His Seraphs the bill , though only by diminishing We emphatically object to the in- pursP. ytm innv jnrl ^nfi h»n TJifi» n)?dre..ed to Bi.oeH *.co., ^"»-h»-- Aa**& ,80 near the,r tents H'8 beraph8 maj orities. , terpetration suggested by Mr. Gale. P it ii a peculiarity of the J ewish theo- It is the peculiarity of Jewish theo-^lle£r^&W.i?

Aa»,^«^SS O'er sapphire floods , the burning escort In tnia country *uch marrmges are The phrase ;'Shear be8aro" (near of loyy that it does not acknowled ge logy that ft .does;not require blindamiibicaw ibbaklitk. rolled , not only j awiui ana ireouBnt , . but km) can not possibly be restricted anv iniallibility or sacramental au- belief. Judaism does not say thoutin. Witt win bo at this office to 12 m., daily, Through clouds of roseate hre and molten "deemed m a moral and religious to ddwohter as the same ohraee oc- thnri tv Hhal t HpIipvp but ii ' kavs fhrtVi o»,»u«»:»' to 5 P" - «oW - senseexceedingly prdseworthyAhe SJ^SS, f JXT J o Z!^ thffiR abbis speak f

reely of the mis- ^^^U S lS¦' ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦

Soon from the Mount 's crest , fearful sounds ™Ung bishops ot the American j ^pis- m which it- clearly means a relation- takes of Abraham and Moses) of David and consider in thy- heapt that theProkebbob Dr. A. Ar Woi.i- f , Chief To ^Hate slowly to its ha} owed base ; sympathy with t,heir brethren in the evidently 'prjtoactemed as a general Hezekiah and 'Nehemiali. etc. And and upon theVearth beneath , there isRabbi of. Copenhagen , Denmark , ThrouRh all the mustering tnbea one im- English H.igh Church , and are earn- |a by the .generalizing term,: " kol" w hy should they not criticise also the none else/'(Deut. iV, 39). . ;lately celebrated his eightieth birth- o»ffi" of joy and fear : o'er shiver- ^^S^S^

(any), and

^hy the

^closing wonl "I: Biblical personage^ Judaism does It is

«otewojjhy that all /but the .dav The most venerable rabbi still ing space lS£s aga,qsfc tJie mme OJ am the. Lord,f Which-are nofradded to not stand and fall with certain person, first of the . .Ten . Commandments' «.' ¦'

* ii ,.i «f ^nrl nnA l^aled &e celestial trump, and awe-struck sucn^^ marriages. ¦ ¦ any: pf the following, ^specifications. ages It is Christianity, that stands begin with lUhbu shalt." On acdount 'enjoys , the full vigor of mind and _ As ^ampi^ofthese^ints,Bishop We; for pur part,^body, and performs the duties of his With suppliant eyes, beheld the won- Doane, of Albany, N.T. came forth interpellation .which applie's.liere- the wouid remain even if it would- be to the six hundred and thirteen laws "¦

high office , which he has occupied for w^^g ^st and lightning 's livid anOTnit$^ >more than fifty-two years. Since last streaib , - S 2?iK™,vSE2 S' ^!- (pal Uprat). According to 80nag&. Judaism, dbes not consist iri ben 'Natihman,;in;a sermorildeliYered . .

v^nr however he is assisted by an Confera'd the Uord of Hosts-the Invisible W^?fg;fflS 'JK^^^?^TO' th«. ruleywlttohjisu quite .rational , the the belief in a certain personage, hut inSaragdss, wasm. favor of counting >year, however he is^s^l oy an Supreme! + -^adjunct , the Rev. Dr. Stmonsen. thick-falling, caught the S^f^^e^L^i^S^

4 8tric^

d /^

thpse^

of the ^cceeding practAce of certain views and prihei:

Tin* late^Woifgari^Wes- ."— eye ; ' : ; , ^^S S^ l R specifications, ^Hence the;. general pies. - seley/of Prague; thought the first of . •ShntMioth 58*1 A. H. Dense but a" moment ; for the reddening >,4&ai™%ffiS^rS™! ,W:;;'*opn -»•_ law in yerse;.- 6th.. prohibiting mar- Judaism does not acknowledge any the Ten Commandments does not ;T ¦ ,

¦¦, ., • i n i frH ' ' ' i - „„•„„ vniinv« -'i-A thl i^^^^Knt^Sffii ^ ^PeSw^ft^nV?^l8

near -ofkin

to sacramental authority. Even the high, commence with thou - shaft; becauseTo-day is the sixth day of the third Gushed forth m plungmg volleys to the ged van . dabor^ pamphlet^ him," i resi^ed-tpithpse. degrees of 3 conaidered only a delegate it caivhot be ':ordered;thati;man must-month ( Si»an), the fiftieth day after . Fjere?tb«ndeni roared , arid ' meteors Jgf^T fe SS nri hoSiSbfr ¦J\n J^^*S«WS»-fi^/n' U^ of

the Jewish nation.;

The aiders cori^belfeye; :MaH

Passover the Feast of Skabaoth (week flashed amaze.; , nTlh^ r fS lUu. iSKr ^^"fc^^M^fee ^h^cBBe gidered it their business to remind inducement for

believing; < : ; ¦r w m^klnfZ^

Theunfnthomedempyrian gleamed onhigh ¦ m»«lb« Oj ^,J

a^SS£

*? not en^ly^mit^^but irriplied a him annually on: the eve of the Day Moses Mfih.lelsBon: dilated W thispf weeks^amemoruilofthe grandefat . With hues of amber, dating, to the wi^great sk^

Mount Sinai. All houses ol worship din r- . . '^ ubla lkwverdefends a lust xj au^e be: ¦ ..v..yiQM.Miwx a>B&,_ nation put iiiihim^m^ nnN. V. deem reasoning.pn ; religious subject s . ,are decorated. . The sons and daugh- Rolled , on , far-echoing^ o'er the Wilderness .\f0i.p -' l,r,- ; n f„i]itoBni ' ' -iiipv - .' ThniV^h ' fn- : ' ¦' : ¦/¦ " ¦:¦ ¦ '* ' . - • ¦ '' Judaism does : not acknowledge to the adyantage 'of . Judaism^B *?y j1

: ters of that divine - covenant, made , of Zin " ; - : V, : > ; S^Sh^ ^^ . ; any s^ramentalordmaUon,v|

this day^itti our ancestors at Mount Then lo! the Kternal's summons Ioud and 0f ^e£ xviii. belonged merelyao the Tkc Jc,vIs,r %? „fn tho Ag* of YuTcheni; was ..refused the Ilabbinica ^.considersi it qne; of m^

of Je ¦ ;

tt u « +„ ,„^cV,i,v rnri In sW^ civil laws of the Mosaic code 'limi ted : Criticism. ordinal ion- by,- the: Patriarch , and still Pentateuch ;to.v:philospphize;nWniSD ; ;Horeb) ; come to. . 1V0rsh P Go^^

ShoUerror and

diS

may

: through; all their ^^festive attire - to: renew, as it were,that . -

^.bands , . -,• . ;. -,;,. r .„, ^g ^memorable- covenant, and .exclaim ^S^So'eSJd'eS^again Nn'aseh Yenishmah. "We will bidding' G6d's: seer ascend the flaming The first. purt ' of the pamphlet in- r —^~ T functions accprding,to /.tJl6 .: Talmud idea iV adopts ^om ^cience, lite .antp

,db.; we will hearken !" In most oF ' _ I' 111, . . .. .- .„ - . - , „. ,. V >x , ' quires ichi eh1 v /into the origin: of the . , Lc°xc^

I>ED -J .' . - dbe^no^conei^t , in / the ordination ^our American temiJles this is also Fro'" { ;He '8SU«I H<s d,v,ne com- £nglish table , of prohibited: dpgrees. .: . IV. \ . norin^abbimcal diploma, but in ;: Thus the ;new^yiewSi and ^ncip es v fi^ir rlnV C; S?,, ;n^ What are the peculiarities of Jewish the, ttabbinical knowl^confirmation day. The youn g

i ones And g^e

^thern statutes tor me i roniisea. .

u

. |S5> .C0^em TJj

^Iogy?- .^ -^ ¦> ; . :,:;; qualified to. perform Rabbinical func- den in; the. .fi!bh3.,till^xpenence. and :¦¦ ; -,after due . instruction approach the And lighted; heaven.with love, thrpugh tbe. to Jewish readers. 'V :; ¦ ^ R eligion is Universal r Theology' tipns^ who has the requisite knowledge, circumstances re^yealed .t.hena.v ..

sacred shrine to announce- their con- ethereal dome. More interest attaches itself to. part .is sectarian. . . Religion is the; Ayprk of j^ ¦ ..; ' ;^!$scientious faith in God and his Law, It is n'ot the purpose of this humble II., which: aims to show that: Levi 'God:- Theology is the "work bfinam Thehi ghest authority was embodied; ^^^^ ^

^erse! °J ^?n,e?^::-and be blessed. And with the young essay -to prove anything or to attack xviii upon which theproposed c who is a Sakan? "0S^S^ven-SSSS., . , ,, , _ .v/.„ " , ? - ./:A.;i„ A,r- . ra^ii, ro;oU *„- .iw n largely depends, does . not : restrict us ; Theelogy, the child of man , nD3n n3p» nr pr ^lewho has acquired SPP^fusiye inac. eyen ,ine . orrnoaox .ones their fathers and niothers are, anybody. We merely.; wis>.to.call

8UC1 ut»-(Rabbi Dr. Max knowledee andvwisdom. ¦ ^ .? 5*S; dare . not,:tp-d;spute; them.-;frequently re-corifirmed and reassured our readers' aUention to the import- this part tjy apologizing that lie, ah LiUenthal;) v . ' T ; ' ^ ; ?' , It w a peculiar ity at Jewish theology ^^;a^^?Sn.ff. .W- rt°^ '?v aKin their faith. It is a day; of: glad- ant event: which has become-the rea- amateur ,'should : venture, upon bib- . "Some eminent ni.en.decry theology that it is ^rereminehtly qualified td ,ness and reunion to the myriad s -of son of this Holiday, and, bv . religion\;wi thput : compre- keep p'ace with 6^

Israd, a reunion of Israel with his also to gratify bur curiosity^^'o r ¦ U - -U - ¦ I ¦• u * : ' -u ~* %. - ' ¦' * - ,^u +u cti ! subject'of the .inquiry, he thinks their no less then the science of religion, or real and progressive -wants of the JJoes not ttasm ,. :God/ which wakes in maiiy:hearts preachers nfayhave tasa^p^ in other words., theology is thl scien- ageV - - ; ¦ ' : "' •/ '

^

hlf, Geaesis^ cornmentary;-Say,¦«%>.-:

the.echpes of a higher life arid nobler 6uo(ft feast, who subscribe to the doer lawyers;'^uite-is- aptly^ as-by * the tific-.system of the doctrines';bf re- ';: Every article of the Jewish faith ™£Wihas ; not come to teach^us in. .aims ; it 'is Shabuolh. . trine ofd evolution to replace revelationY clfergy.w '; After having; set forth, some ligipiiv An erroneous "religion neces- has a histofyy a history .; that, traces w."'1* successibn the .cre^iqn took :

In vain, has fantasty labored and Ave would like also to knove the cate- Tulesj of construction, he.,enters'.into sarily produces by its systematizing it back-to its state of primitive defici- P ^^k- t ; i r t • : k- , ";: -brought forth the productions of chism fromvwhicfr they instruct the ah^riaksis'of ^ie eigh^etith chapter doctors anjrroneous theology.-Emo- ency from which it evolved or de- '- W ta^TV-aSeiS that ':.& .. ,. . ^.

¦¦ ¦ ¦;. . ... . - ,i ¦ ., - of Leviticus and an interpretation of tional religion, like all sentimental!- veloped to a purer and mbre perfect ^1B"na c9mm9n^genius ma|l forms and languages ; m ypung;m preparing, them for, con- eacn provision of- the law contained ties, admits of no rational system."— conception and form... Such a history |!1.?^»t ve

Tse. of Genesis^was bnly_Jje

the world's literature , and works of firmation: thereyi,- -Though we, can^^ ndt 'accept (Rabbi Dr. i. M. Wise). has the conception of God, the service ¦«««?. € , :,the.: first ?lwpte ; A : :art , there is positively nothing which We^ for our part think thei Shabif oth , every oiritan this ex^bsitionand

are What is Judaism? in the

temple, th^^^compare,in grandeur , sublimity and Sinai and Thorah are .oi so great

iS^eS' l 'fit^ reSi SeraS iS ¦, maj estib fuimesswith thelrevelationon portance to IsraOl and mankind that ^^$ Irn5eu?f % -tfe^ Sjudaism^t^S P* iiat* of ,the c^0 .Mount Sinai, although it is described every; honest man who reasons cor-- the whole; a good!piece of work; and manityv or:is ita dogmatical religion? iaWa or passages of the Bible which C°nsequently| it was the;ptention ofih Scriptures . in the simplest and rectly might fearlessly proclaim to that he has succeeded in refuting the Is Judaism identical with Erophetism, through time and circumstances have th^Torah ta teachonly^batGodis .themost artless terms. All the elements the .wbrld that we celebrate the' day' arguments} which' Bis ppponents haye; :pr ^i^^bbm become inoperative, but they rather ;0^* L- - ' w?^ ^-^- °tW-?»2'''of the awful and the sublime com- of the Sinaic revelation in memory of drawn frbm^ ta th^ order nf^i .' • „ c • • i mi • ii. '*

¦ i v. „ n a ~ i of the restriction of the marriage m has its representatives and advocates Rabbinical "dialectics ro tKktr thftqp °l,i e, 0l l ¦ eann> Dut leaves entirelybine in that Sinaic picture. There is the. great event when God gave law questioiu This "is especially the case among A most ¦ prominent reform £^*™XnSSbSS *U that is prehistoric to human specu-the soundless and lifeless desert, vast , and doctrine to his children, made wlthyerse 18th : "Neither shait thou theologians." ¦ . '

bearers of certain moral or advanced Jatlon nnd^^ observation. - ¦¦- ¦¦»' and calm, bounded in the north to^Israel riis covenant people, for the re- take a wife to her sister to vex her . What is Judaism? fr ideas. » ' ". " ' ¦ '")1D3 DinnOiy "?3; 79 rn) m iy ti) 1HK

the very clouds by the steep mount .demotion- of,the human iamily from —besides the other;in her lifetime." ' American Judaism has been agk D30 &?) pi dk dsd Kin pi nil th"a ??a nn W niti NpD3 pNB' Dttpn DSttffltain range .f Horeb,

?e huge re^ -the^age f^^^^^^

stones piled one above the other by a; . tipnj ; the^ day; - : when, heave^ and that a man is not to form a connection^ "Supernatural : ReveUttion » "The lo

tha?Sves the widesTsCoSto p^? wa?« sla¥,bJ some of the

giant race. On the highest peak of; .earth,were reunited, hy:God's:procla- with his:wife's sister, ;mhMe:hMwife is Sabbath or the'Sunday^s'Mixed Mar- alj [ Opinions li? teTfS SSqub- R^

bl8Y !

G(

f r f/? WSthat mountain range you must im- matipn7of;;h|s :icare and prpyidende alive, Hence^the 'law permitted mar^ riages,". w Marriage with the Broth- Bion. The wo7ds'of Schamai were re- ra^Br.RTCvotrw?mRP?fS^^^agine-that- scene of revelation as de- ifor the childreii/ of this'i eaHh; the »aP With the sister of * deceased er's Widow, when children are; left Bp^6teaMlle^th^rittH6se7ofmm rehrior^d^hmanS >btT»^^

^d

in the Bible, »^d add ,o „4:j* ?

„ t

*>#£*** EJ ^J ^S ftSF EL S ^T'SS

SHS 'SE«8$£. t§&3&Z ~fS| ' \nation standing in breathless awe at "'This day we have seen that the Al- piication is also adopted in the- these are questions of vital irapor- Sf °lSw S S

; JWienrader tfe inflnence of Greekthe foot thereof, the thunders and mighty will speak to man and he rabbinical interpretation of this law), tarice, and though much has been ]ffit?TliertQ^eont^the sounds of the cornets re-echoed will live," and has never disappeared English Ecclesiastics tried to give Written and much quarreling has were^expreHsed vby the "Rabbis on „„= - nAKV^Pi^^T^ii?™ 2r^by the numerous clefts rolling, roar- fromthe memory of Israel. If we'hear ^"SXa^fe toS llfZ wS^JudS feS gSoS ^^fi^

1^!

0 ^T

*& She sS 'word Q PSto Pek-ing over the^plain , and you approach an Israelite maintain, »I am proud of dSe^Son »*% Slhe ^orSyS ifoZftt. * t5 flg^^^S

aJin^ t S . V

Me? Wthe pictu re dra^ra for you in the brief being a Jew," we agree with him ; hot implied permission into a general opinions expressed ibv our most teab^WreS?e^^^^ (

words of Scriptures. There is noth- because our ancestors were heroes, law against polygamy by translating : prominent Rabbis on all these ques- are disputihg on the cardinal maxims tk * t ' H t-v, Ting like it or similar to it , nothing ap- statesmen, princes and mighty men ; " Thou shalt not take one wife to tions are contradictory. of the -Halacha » and in the Cabbalia- inciS +^ ^3^ Wentifv-proaching it in the history or poetry also not because they were musicians , anoi^er " Against this version; which What is Judaism? , tic book Sefer, Habahir it reads : Sr Sd anSThe Sr, e i. J v .j ^

j > originated in the sixteenth century An answer to this query in its • ¦ v- ¦ t B , , woria.^

ine rvuuuiaof any nation. poets, reasoners and legislators of an| fo(Ind ita way into„the margin 0Jf general ^enge is given in\ver

^ jewish nasiD Wjttl Vain. 5>3 »KDim,OT 10K argued by means of the article n«

Come here, all ye infidels and skep- the highest rank ; not even because the authorized English Bible, Mr. catechism, but a statement of its texts ru h&P nSb* tB'BK '^N n*&tra ntfjj oai the fourth word of the first chapter ottics, and answer-this question. How they were divine bards, prophets Gale argues among others that the on particular questions can only be ,lw a„„ -, " „_L -,-_.¦ -,,-,, „, ,MM

¦. 7,n^18'™ "!a PwUioiBta!new

is it that genius but once, if poetry it and teachers of righteousness. We P^ase i-sha el a-cho-tha in this law obtained by a review of the peculiar!- » "PW

^a. M 3IW Kin aa« is^

.biblical;a

\doe« ^V^^is, but once and never again rose to agree with him, because God has re- can only be tafeen in its literal mean- ties of Jewish theology ^=" «^ _ .

^SS« SuchS.E could hayeA,\ . , , . , ; . il b ,.. „ I j i • -n\ e ,. , mg—"a wif e to her sister "—and not It is a peculiarity of Jewish theo- Though it is impossible for them ,VVUUBl! ' rz - aucn woraing couiu. uuvothat awfu l height of the sublime? vealed his will to us for the redemp- in that which it is sometimes idiom- logy that it has not merely a nomen- to avoid erroneous ideas, but never- been construed in favor of Pantheism.Did man that one time excel him- tion of man , has made us a covenant atically used to express " one to an- clature of its own, but its nomencla- the less God loves metaphysicians and

^ read Es

Haschomaj im, that says,self? Art can not reach the grandeur people, and has called us among the other." In this idiomatic sense it is ture contains also ori ginal and primi- lets the banner of his love wave over P'alnl

^ God is the creator and the

of nature, the fictions of fantasy are nations his first-born son. There- used only when referring to subjects live conceptions. The translations them." ¦ ,? "w "! n? "" u !!r „,™mere shadows of the rock of truth , fore, it is with that particular pride al^ady mentioned in a plural ante- of the Bible, have been , a source of . According to the Talmud, the J * n

phvsicaf^liEht but alsoS,T , I., x iL i i i xi_ ot i . ^ cedent, to express a sisterly relation ] great confusion and miarepresenta- Synhedrm could take action upon a me™iy pnysicai iignt, out aiso eui rNo human genius was ever able to that we look upon the Shabuoth feast , for instance, in the description of the tion of Judaism. There are so many case of heresy only when all members «tj" l light. According to the Rabbisinvent the Sinaic revelation. In or. which annually places us again be- Tabernacle we read (Ex. xxvi. 3) terms in original Hebrew texts which of the Synhedrin were present, but Abraham and Moses and every rignt-der to establish this as a fac t no better fore Mount Sinai and causes us to "five curtains shall be coupled to- are impossible to translate into an- if only one of them were absent no e°us man is such a lighlj of the crea-proof is necessary than its descrip- hear anew the lesson fro m on high, Sfther iaha el aehotha." Here this other language without losing much or action could be taken, as it was ad- ^-^w^o'S pfffiinn nD a ia >>t ra t,n„ak n ™ +u„ n„A » «* J phrase can not mean that the cur- perhaps all of that peculiar concep- mitted as possible that the absent ,r Tx V Kabbi-Abanu bskstion as it is. I Jehovah am thy God etc., and tains are actual sisters, but " isha el tion they convey <to the mind when member, if present, might have lf *ere were np -planets, yet howThe psalmist (Psalm lxvm. 8-19) "ye are my witnesses and my ser- aehotha" is used concerning curtains, in the original. espoused the cause of the heretic, and °°u.ld there b.e evening or mormng.did make the attempt to describe the vant whom I have chosen." Then and to define coupled—the curtains The Hebrew term Jehovah mri' is vindicated him. This passage is to intimate that thereSinaic revelation, and his description we feel that pride and satisfaction are coupled together like sisters—one translated " the Eternal ," or " the It is a peculiarity of Jewish theo- waB an order of world previous to theis very poetical. It falls short, how- which Heaven's assurances alone can to ano,i/lf- After this grammatical Lord." What a poor translation ! The logy .that in its Halachic decisions it P"8ent order ot thlB worm" «K3 .„,,„j u <•„> „u«.t «.f *i,„ ^»5„ - „i • j .u;~u a a '*v. remark he continues : "A substitu Hebrew term n.iT in its transitive keeps humanity m view. nn D1W D^DJ "no n'nts'evei', by far short, of the original nar- give, which depend neither on mun- tion of the descriptive use for the form intimates an activity that is not ' fhe Halacha^regards ihe dignity of .irw or . According to grammaticalrative in Exodus. The author of the dane glory nor human recognition ; literal and primary one can not avail necessarily implied ill the word men ninan 1133 *?nj The Halacha rules it ought hot' to read "one day ,"Acts of the Apostles also (Acts ii.) which fade not under persecution our opponents, and must stultify "Eternal." Tho Persian Zeruave maintains¦ that it is a greater sin to but the "first day." The Rabbismade an attempt to imitate the Sinaic and scorn, and expire not in death - either verse 18th and its author or Adereua who retired from all and deceive people in weights and scales think the Pentateuch would intimatescene in the upper chamber of a house which have been rocks of salvation their exegetical labor. The verse leaves all to his agents Ahremau than to commit incest, nnD *w rm some singular days. The Day of Atone- .. T ', xu l- * *, • a i r iu • it j j ii. „, would then only forbid taking one to and Ormuzd may also be called " The ncp The Halacha maintains that the ment and the day of the Sinaic legis-in Jerusalem, as the evangelists tried to our fathers in life and death. We anolher. Take what, in that way? Eternal ," but there can never properly sins of the evil tongue are worse lation. Both are days of true spir-to surround Calvary with Sinaic j invite all to celebrate with us the Clearly, subjects are lacking—a plural be given to him the name "Jehovah." theri homicide, idolatry and incest, itual light in the religious world.