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Page 13
... revelation to the world . The results of this discipline of the Jewish nation may be summed up in two points — a settled national belief in the unity and spirituality of God , and an acknowledgment of the paramount importance of ...
... revelation to the world . The results of this discipline of the Jewish nation may be summed up in two points — a settled national belief in the unity and spirituality of God , and an acknowledgment of the paramount importance of ...
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... Revelation , but by the working of nature , and con- sequently so distorted and adulterated that in lapse of time the divine element in them had almost perished . The poetical gods of Greece , the legendary gods of Rome , the animal ...
... Revelation , but by the working of nature , and con- sequently so distorted and adulterated that in lapse of time the divine element in them had almost perished . The poetical gods of Greece , the legendary gods of Rome , the animal ...
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... revelation been delayed till now , assuredly it would have been hard for us to recognise His Divinity ; for the faculty of Faith has turned inwards , and cannot now accept any outer manifestations of the truth of God . Our vision of the ...
... revelation been delayed till now , assuredly it would have been hard for us to recognise His Divinity ; for the faculty of Faith has turned inwards , and cannot now accept any outer manifestations of the truth of God . Our vision of the ...
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... to dare was to do , and whose very name was a signal of success ; and the earnest , heavenly - minded friend , whose saintly aspect was a revelation in itself . Greece and Rome have not only given to us the The Education of the World . 31.
... to dare was to do , and whose very name was a signal of success ; and the earnest , heavenly - minded friend , whose saintly aspect was a revelation in itself . Greece and Rome have not only given to us the The Education of the World . 31.
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... revelation from heaven , they would still be under the law ; for a revelation speak- ing from without and not from within is an external law and not a spirit . For the same reason a strict and even severe dis- cipline is needed for the ...
... revelation from heaven , they would still be under the law ; for a revelation speak- ing from without and not from within is an external law and not a spirit . For the same reason a strict and even severe dis- cipline is needed for the ...
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