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A STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH FROM EARLY TIMES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY
(1280)
COPYRIGHT, 1896
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
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 Eneid: Power and Sadness of Obedience
The Gods Founded Rome.
As the Past Declares, so let its Virtues Guard the Future
Rome's Imperial Charge
Eneid VI.
Religious and Moral Betterment; The Carmen Sæculare The High Hope Looking to the Emperor; The Imperial Apo- theosis 4.
The Empire's Dignity
The Hellenic East, the Latin West
CHAPTER XV.
THE EMPIRE: THE SPIRITUAL CHANGE.
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
Within
Persius and Juvenal
Love at Rome; Pliny
Roman Law and Greek Thought
CHAPTER XVI.
THE EMPIRE: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS REVIVAL.
The Age and its Philosophers
VOL. II.
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Stoical Aphorism and Benevolence: Seneca
Stoical Religiousness: Epictetus
The Pathos of Stoicism: Marcus Aurelius
All Things Come from the Gods
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
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Porphyry; Iamblicus; The Philosophy of Superstition
Abidingness of Paganism; Character of the Religious Revival
Julian and Christianity
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
Kingly Qualities; Saul's Failure
The Righteousness of David
CHAPTER XVIII.
ISRAEL'S SPIRITUAL GROWTH.
Prophetic Lessons; Elijah.
The Hebrew Prophet.
Israel's Religion Imperfect; Modes of Completion
Jehovah's Power of Righteousness
Prophetic Monotheism: Jehovah God of All Peoples .
His Love of Israel
Jehovah a Law of Righteousness for Israel: The Righteousness
Demanded
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Solomon; The Justice and Mercy of the Time
Israel's Twofold Religious Consciousness; The Covenant with
Jehovah
Religious Ethics of Patriarchal Narrative
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The Consecration of Deliverance; Its Permitted Self-Assertion. 124
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CHAPTER XIX.
MESSIANIC PROPHECY.
Comprehensiveness and Diversity of Messianic Thought
The Covenants and the Messiah-King
Divine Efficiency of Suffering
The Sanction of Righteousness
The Last Judgment.
Israel's Mediatorial Restoration; The Presence of Jehovah
CHAPTER XX.
The Thought of God in the Psalter
Jehovah's Infinity of Righteousness and Love
The Sense of Self before its God
The Soul's Right Attitude ..
Fret not Thyself; Trust Jehovah
I am Always with Thee
How I Love Thy Law
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.
WISDOM AND The Law-Later Judaism.
Chokhmah.
THE PSALTER.
Artist Qualities of Greece and Israel; Character of Hebrew
Poetry
Ecclesiastes
The Law a Reflex of Jehovah's Ways.
Thou shalt Love the Lord Thy God
Holiness and Righteousness; the Ritual
Him Only shalt Thou Serve
Babylonian and Persian Influence
Hellenism.
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
Apocalyptic Prophecy; Immortality and Resurrection
The Messiah
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