A STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL
GROWTH FROM EARLY TIMES TO THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY

WILST

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE EMPIRE: THE PUBLIC HOPE.

The Situation; Octavius

The Policy of Augustus

Looking to the Past: Its Rustic Virtue; The Georgics

Rome's Fortitude: Obeying Divine Destiny

The Æneid: Power and Sadness of Obedience

The Gods Founded Rome.

As the Past Declares, so let its Virtues Guard the Future

Rome's Imperial Charge

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Æneid VI.

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Religious and Moral Betterment; The Carmen Sæculare

The High Hope Looking to the Emperor; The Imperial Apo-

From Homer to Virgil: Homeric and Virgilian Pathos

Virgil's Tenderness towards All of Life

Horace; The Pathos of Epicureanism

From the Garden to the Porch; Horace Preaches Virtue; Look

THE EMPIRE: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS REVIVAL.

The Age and its Philosophers

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Satisfaction of the Rational Soul, the Dissatisfaction of the Man.

Three Acts Are the Drama! The Stoical Failure

From Reason to Ecstasy and Oracle

Philo; Appolonius of Tyana; Plutarch

Plotinus the Neo-Platonist .

The Absolute "First"; The Nous; The Soul; The Sensible

World

Purification unto the Ecstasy of God

The Neo-Platonic Result

Porphyry; Iamblicus; The Philosophy of Superstition

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Abidingness of Paganism; Character of the Religious Revival 90

Julian and Christianity

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CHAPTER XVII.

ISRAEL DELIVERANCE AND CONSECRATION.

Israel's Sphere

The Stories of the Patriarchs; Writing

The Exodus and Resulting Thought of God; Moses

Leadership, Divine and Human; Samuel and a King

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ΙΟΙ

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Israel's Twofold Religious Consciousness; The Covenant with

Jehovah..

Religious Ethics of Patriarchal Narrative

The Consecration of Deliverance; Its Permitted Self-Assertion.

Jehovah a Law of Righteousness for Israel: The Righteousness

Demanded

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MESSIANIC PROPHECY.

CHAPTER XIX.

Comprehensiveness and Diversity of Messianic Thought

The Covenants and the Messiah-King

The Messiah-King in the Prophets

The Servant of Jehovah

The Servant in "Second Isaiah"; Isaiah liii

Divine Efficiency of Suffering

The Sanction of Righteousness

The Last Judgment

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Israel's Mediatorial Restoration; The Presence of Jehovah

CHAPTER XX.

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THE PSALTER.

Artist Qualities of Greece and Israel; Character of Hebrew

Poetry

Can the Dead Praise Thee.

Let God Arise, and Let His Enemies be Scattered

God be Gracious! The Victory

The Psalter's Lyric Universality

CHAPTER XXI.

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WISDOM AND The Law-Later Judaism.

Chokhmah.

Teaching of Proverbs: Wisdom, God's Plan; Wisdom is Fear of

the Lord and Righteousness

Why Do the Righteous Suffer? The Book of Job a Statement of

the Problem

Israel's Rigid Strength: The Zeal for the Law and its Tradition 225

Apocalyptic Prophecy; Immortality and Resurrection