The Bible for Home Reading, Volume 2

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MacMillan and Company, 1914

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Contents

The Ptolemies and the Jews
11
Human freedom 12 On pride
12
On shame
13
The discipline of the tongue
14
The virtues of benevolence and forgiveness
15
Miscellaneous maxims
16
Religious tales
17
Prosperity and happiness
18
The sadness of life and the advent of death
19
SECTION I
20
CHAPTER I
21
Zophars second speech
22
The sixth reply of
23
Wisdom and folly in speech and silence
24
Jobs seventh reply
25
Against slander
26
Pride and humility
27
An editorial interpolation or Zophars third speech
28
On cheerfulness
29
Jobs final soliloquy
30
Justice and righteousness
31
The second speech of Elihu
32
On forgiveness
33
Wisdom and folly
34
Hippopotamus and crocodile
35
Discipline and reproof
36
Reverence and the Fear of the Lord
37
God and man
38
The alleviations of the Platonic philosophy
39
The king
40
Miscellaneous proverbs
41
The praise of the virtuous woman
46
The praise of Wisdom
48
CHAPTER II
62
The Apocrypha
63
Characteristics of Ben Sira
64
Ben Siras essays
66
The Preface of the Greek Translator
67
The Fear of the Lord
68
THE BOOK OF JOB
73
Characteristics of the Book
115
The traditional story of
116
The problem of
118
134
126
The tying of the knot
127
Jobs opening soliloquy
130
The first speech of Eliphaz
131
Jobs first reply
134
The first speech of Bildad
138
The second reply of
139
The first speech of Zophar
143
KOHELETH OR ECCLESIASTES PAGE
144
1 Characteristics of Koheleth
208
Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas
210
A defence of the transitory
213
Two beliefs unharmonized and inconsistent with each other
214
Maxims and observations about kings and rulers
230
CHAPTER V
240
SECTION II
262
Warnings unheeded
271
The fall of Israel and its causes
272
The visions of the locust the fire and the plumbline
277
Amos and Amaziah
278
The vision of summer fruit 10 A fresh denunciation
279
The vision of the smitten sanctuary
280
The future restoration
281
CHAPTER II
284
The age of Hosea
285
The true parable of the faithless wife
286
The moral and religious condition of Israel
291
Israel the oppressor
294
Ephemeral repentance
295
Love not sacrifice
296
Israel the ungrateful
297
Israel among the nations
298
Illtimed rejoicing
299
Israel as the wild grape 12 Israel as the cultivated vine
300
reap lovingkindness 14 The wasted training of Israel
301
Israel the supplanter and trafficker
303
The doom upon unrepentant Israel
304
Last words of promise
305
CHAPTER III
308
PAGE
312
A prophecy of doom upon the kingdom of Israel
331
Prophecies against Assyria
333
The reign of peace
336
CHAPTER IV
339
The mockedat prophet and his retort
340
The covenant with death and its destruction
341
The parable of the ploughman and the thresher 5 Jerusalem the altarhearth
342
Spiritual blindness
343
A rebuke of doubters and murmurers
344
The Egyptian alliance
345
9
346
The good time to come
347
The destruction of Assyria
348
SECTION IV
424
PSALMS OF PRAYER IN SEASONS OF TROUBLE PAGE 1 Characteristics of the group of Psalms collected together in the present chapter
432
the Two Ways
433
The third and fourth Psalms
434
The fifth Psalm a morning hymn
435
The sixth Psalm
437
Psalms eleven twelve thirteen and seventeen
438
Why hast thou forsaken me?
442
The twentyfifth Psalm
444
Psalms twentysix and twentyseven 6
446
In te Domine speravi
448
Domine ne in furore
450
The thirtyninth Psalm
451
The fortyfirst Psalm
453
The soul which longs for God
454
Exaudi Deus
456
Psalms fiftysix and fiftyseven
457
The sixtysecond Psalm
459
The sixtyninth Psalm
460
Psalm seventyone
463
Voce mea ad Dominum
465
The eightyfifth Psalm
466
Inclina Domine
467
The eightyeighth Psalm
469
Domine refugium
470
The ninetyfourth Psalm
473
The one hundred and second Psalm
475
The one hundred and thirtyseventh Psalm
477
Psalms one hundred and fortyone and one hundred and fortytwo
478
audivimus
480
Deus auribus nostris
486
THE FIFTYFIRST PSALM 1 A whole chapter for a single Psalm
489
Who is the speaker?
490
Translation of the Psalm 4 Explanation of various passages 5 The last two verses of the Psalm 489
492
Conserva me Domine
502
The Lord is my shepherd
504
Older translations of the twentythird Psalm
506
Dominus illuminatio mea
508
The sixtythird Psalm
509
Quam dilecta
510
Once more the I of the Psalter
512
CHAPTER V
515
Exaltabo te Domine
516
The fortieth Psalm
517
Jubilate Deo
519
535
534
Psalms one hundred and thirteen and one hundred and fourteen
535
Non nobis Domine
537
Psalm one hundred and sixteen
538
Psalm one hundred and eighteen
540
The one hundred and thirtyeighth Psalm
543
CHAPTER VI
545
The one hundred and twentieth Psalm
546
Levavi oculos meos in montes
547
Nisi quia Dominus
548
oculos meos
549
Psalm one hundred and twentysix
552
Nisi Dominus
553
Psalm one hundred and twentyeight
554
Saepe expugna
555
CHAPTER I
560
The seventysecond Psalm
570
The one hundred and tenth Psalm
576
CHAPTER VIII
582
Confitemini
602
CHAPTER IX
608
CHAPTER X
627
FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MOVEMENT TO THE DEATH OF MATTATHIAS 1 A return to history
655
The first successors of Alexander the Great
656
The kingdom of Seleucus
657
658
658
664
663
Antiochus at Jerusalem
664
The circle of Popilius Laenas
666
The religious persecution in Judæa
667
The story of Eleazar the scribe
670
The seven brothers and their mother
671
Mattathias of Modin
675
The death of Mattathias
678
CHAPTER II
681
Belshazzars feast
698
The vision of the four great beasts
705
Daniels prayer and the statement of the angel Gabriel
711
from Alexander to Antiochus
718
The precise date of the Book of Daniel
729
The purification of the Temple
738
FROM THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE TO
743
The Romans and their government
749
CHAPTER V
756
7
762
CONCLUSION
768
INDEX I
784
272
786
ΙΟ
787
552
788
Copyright

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TitleThe Bible for Home Reading, Volume 2
The Bible for Home Reading, Claude Goldsmid Montefiore
AuthorClaude Goldsmid Montefiore
PublisherMacMillan and Company, 1914
Original fromthe University of California
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