Did Moses Write the Pentateuch After All? (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... Levitical position generally may be supposed to be part, of the purpose of theauthor of ti1e book of Chronicles. But the poverty of the present it was which made men's minds look back with yearning to the past, and fill it, in their restoration of what was lacking to its history from the preserved public records, with perhaps even an exaggerated conception of its greatness. If even this were the case, which we will not be sure of, it may readily be pardoned. Jeremy Taylor has greatly said of the period when the Prayer-Book was proscribed, and the little valued privileges of Churchmen were put for a space to confusion: 'The Book of Common Prayer was sown in tears, and is now watered with tears. Yet never was any holy thing drowned and extinguished with tears. Indeed, the greatest danger that ever the Common Prayer-Book had was the indifferency and indevotion of them that used it but as a common blessing.' But when excellent things go away, and then look back upon us, as our Saviour did upon St. Peter, we are more moved than by the nearer embraces of a full and actual possession.' (Works, V., 254.) The time of the Hebrew restoration was such a time of tears. It will not be possible here to approach the subject of the book of Chronicles; but the relations which subsist between the prophet Ezekiel and the supposed legislation of P are too marked, too special, and too instructive to pass them without making a few suggestions as to their meaning. It is supposed that the phenomena observable in the prophet Ezekiel are sufficient in themselves to give a deathblow to the fundamental institutions of theoretical criticism. They are briefly these: (1) Ezekiel gives evidence of the most precise and detailed acquaintance with the Let the reader...