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Chapter
XLIII.
But what need is there to point out how agreeable
to sound reason, and unattended with injury either to master or slave,
was the law that one of the same faith4222
| 4222 τὸν ἀπὸ τῶν
αὐτῶν
ὁρώμενον
δογμάτων. |
should not be allowed to continue in slavery more than six
years?4223
| 4223 Cf. Ex. xxi. 2 and Jer. xxxiv. 14. [An important comment on Mosaic
servitude.] | The Jews,
then, cannot be said to preserve their own law in the same points with
the other nations. For it would be censurable in them, and would
involve a charge of insensibility to the superiority of their law, if
they were to believe that they had been legislated for in the same way
as the other nations among the heathen. And although Celsus will
not admit it, the Jews nevertheless are possessed of a wisdom superior
not only to that of the multitude, but also of those who have the
appearance of philosophers; because those who engage in philosophical
pursuits, after the utterance of the most venerable philosophical
sentiments, fall away into the worship of idols and demons, whereas the
very lowest Jew directs his look to the Supreme God alone; and they do
well, indeed, so far as this point is concerned, to pride themselves
thereon, and to keep aloof from the society of others as accursed and
impious. And would that they had not sinned, and transgressed the
law, and slain the prophets in former times, and in these latter days
conspired against Jesus, that we might be in possession of a pattern of
a heavenly city which even Plato would have sought to describe;
although I doubt whether he could have accomplished as much as was done
by Moses and those who followed him, who nourished a “chosen
generation,” and “a holy nation,” dedicated to God,
with words free from all superstition.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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