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. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...Conception, on the base of which this text is inscribed, "My daughter, this law was not made for thee." "What, ' you say, "is the new dogma in the Bible? Is it the law of heredity and the transmission of original sin that is alluded to? Is it God speaking to Mary?" Once more, do not be alarmed; the ...
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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. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...Conception, on the base of which this text is inscribed, "My daughter, this law was not made for thee." "What, ' you say, "is the new dogma in the Bible? Is it the law of heredity and the transmission of original sin that is alluded to? Is it God speaking to Mary?" Once more, do not be alarmed; the allusion is to a law of etiquette at the court of Assyria, and the speaker is King Ahasuerus, who is consoling his wife Esther, at the moment when she fainted through fear at having entered the sovereign's apartment without his order. But there is more to he noted, in these last examples, than the deplorable habit of detaching a Biblical sentence from all that determines its meaning. There is the mistake of supposing that the sacred text is open to an infinite number of arbitrary applications. Fanatical Puritans found justification for their crimes in giving their enemies the names of Amalekites, Amorites, and Philistines, and applying to them the threats which the Jews had used against these hated races. Our Protestant ancestors had their triumph in believing that they found the Catholic Church condemned in the Apocalypse under the figure of Babylon the Great, the shameless woman drunk with the blood of saints, and sitting upon seven hills. The Church of Rome had its equal triumph in discovering, in the same book, Mary represented as the woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of stars. (See Rev. xiv. 8; xii. 1.) Both sides were equally in error. What one took for Catholicism is the Roman Empire under the pagan reign of Nero, who massacred the Christians; what the other took for the portrait of the immaculate Mary, is the Christian religion victorious over Judaism and...
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