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public authority in Israel before Josiah ; especially, 

 tlu' cultus aiul religious customs rested 

 upon no divine law book; and that the chosen 

 iv|M-'--.'nt:itives of religion, bot'mv tho oxilo, know 

 n-.tliitii;- wliatouT nt'sin-h .-. law book. 1 



I' iteronomy is tho result of the reformatory 

 movement Be1 afoot by the Prophets. In fact, 

 tlio IVophots. tlmu^h unintentionally, became the 

 founders of Judaism and its religion of legality. 

 Tin -iv in li-s their far-reaching historical influ- 

 enco. But the Prophets stand in complete ant 

 onism to old Israel. They foretold the fall of 

 kingdom and people, and so commenced a bitt-i 

 wart'aro against the traditional conceptions of 

 Israolitic religion. On the other hand, they 

 \\viv much more than founders of the Jewish 

 community: they rise high above later Juda- 

 ism ; in them, the religion of the Old Testament 

 substantially approaches Christianity." (/. c. p. 0.) 



If I were to publish " Helps to the Study of 

 Zoology " for popular use, in which the progress 

 of science in the last fifty years was ignored and 

 every recent authority passed over in silence, I 

 am afraid, and indeed hope, that I should get into 

 great trouble. But to be sure I should be judged 

 by mo iv lay standards of right and wrong. 



T. H. H. 



i I'.'"!' |;xr. 



October 9th, 1893. 



/.. firt'H'-h 

 1893, p. 8. (Sammlung Thcologischer Lehrbftcher.) 



