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VOL. 1
The Law of Love.
SILVERTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, i897.
NO. 52.
speak, should any questions occur guage, as a language, which Moses have covered a long period. T he
do not hesitate to speak out freely; and David m ight have spoken, was vowel m arkings, however, were not
By J o h n P rescott G uild.
you will in no way annoy me by dead, and was a sacred classical found upon m any o f the texts used
“ Now love me, or I ’ll whip you!”
Said Jones to Jack, one day ;
ho doing.
tongue t<> be known only by the by the Jews in the synagogues long
"If you don’t love I ’ll strip you,
“
W
hat
do
we
know’
of
the
hible?
learned. The dialect of the people after.
And quick your hide will flay ”
More than the priests and ortho was the Chaldee. It follows as a
“ C h ristian ity was already a great
“O, Pa! how can I love you,
When you treat me so bad?”
doxy, who wish to hold to it the nos, n atu ral result th at these w rit power in the world. M any of these
"You must, ’cause I ’m above you;
superstitions of inspiration, in falli ings collected by Ezra and his assist early churches hesitated about ac
Love me, for I ’m your dad.”
bility, and supernatural origin, wish ants should need interpretation and cepting the au th o rity given th e old
"Now love me, or I’ll damn you !”
To mankind God did yell;
we knew. But let us begin. The explanation.
This hndv of men testam ent by Jesus and his disci
"Love me, or I will jam you
true student of science sees all races who originally had been scholars ples, ju st as they held objections to
Into the tires of hell!”
coming from out the haze of dist- , «N»n acquired a u th o rity as civil an y th in g Jew 'sh.
Hebrew’ was
"0 , Jove! how can I love you,
While thus you poise the rod?”
nt eras of the past. He o b serves-and judicial officers. Probably the known by no converts to the church
"You must, ’cause I ’m above you;
one sm all branch of the Sem etici ! great S anhedrin was an outgrow th except Jew s, and few, if an y , of
Love me, for I ’m your God.”
fam ily, called the Jew s, struggling of this early body. At this tim e these had a knowledge of the sacred
He knoweth not what love is,
Who thinks to love control;
for independence and existence the “ holy” idea became a living laws. About 300, B. C., a great
No oracle above is
am ong the various nations in whose force in though,; and inspiration center of learning had grown up a»
The essence of the soul.
m idst n atu re has developed them. was taught, doubtless, th a t the civil A lexandria, and here w’e find tin-
True love is won by loving,
Love unto love will draw;
In common with other people these influence m ight he greater and obe origin of the S eptuagint version or
Love obeys no “ al>oving,”
Jew’s advanced to higher stages of dience to the law more easily se translation of the scriptures. There
For love is highest law.
intelligence. We need dwell only cured. You can understand the was no end of stories about the ori
For th e T orch of Reason.
to this extent upon this early per power of m ysticism in euch m atters. gin o f this Greek text. The early*
Bohemian Evening, No. 2 .
iod.
I refer you to the histories of
“ Now arose a division of these ex C hristians told of a certain fixed
civilization. For more light than plainers of the law, into schools, or date upon which seventy-tw o elders,
By C. E lton B lanchard.
[N ote : For the first paper of this ser I can give you in so brief a conver parties. I have recently read in six from ca-'h tribe, were sen t to
ies see issue of September 23d.]
sation I call your atten tio n to the the Open Court, of Chicago, a very tran slate into Greek the Hebrew
T H E HOT, Y B IB L E .
work of th a t great scholar, I)r. C. excellent series of articles by the text. Their tra n sla tio n s were ex-
Upon the arriv al of th H hour in H. Cornill, professor of old testa- Rev. B. Pick, giving some valuable a c ly alike in every word, and
which the doctor expected his young m ent history in the U niversity o f'th o u g h ts along this line.
These though they had been sent to Egypt
friends to appear for the second Königsberg, and others of equal ;schools begin with the leadership in separate parties, and conducted
evening, as agreed, the old m an £«* sincerity and worth.
a .1 f Simon the J u s t, about 180, B. C., the translation separately, by divine
in his study looking intently into
“ We find the Jews a captive na and the work went on until «500, inspiration th eir tran slatio n s were
the grate, where a bright fire glowed tion in the hands of the B abylonian A. I)., being in its greatest power identical ! We pai-s these m arvel
cheeringly. It was not the fire th at king, about 500 years before the about the time the hum ble Jesus ous tales, of which there tv ere m ain ,
held the doctor’s gaze so intently. birth of C hrist, com m only called appealed upon the stage of action. with no fu rth er com m ent. Even
It was thought th at absorbed him , Je«us. In the surging of the pow- During all these generations the C hristians now days shun th eir
leaving the sense of sight Io be a t 1 ers, the Persians had overpowered Talm ud was being produced. It m ention. The S eptuagint version
tracted by the hypnotizing power the B abylonian Em pire, arid Cyrus, was a great encyclopsedia of ex p la was made 285, B. C., by the in te lli
of the flickering flame. From this a man who was far in advance of nation by the long list of schoolmen. gent Ptolem ies, at A lex an d ria’s
spe 11 of reverie he was presently his time, perm itted the children of These scribes and T alm udists spent great school, as a part of the liter
awakened by footsteps, and the Israel to return to their former lifetimes of devoted lal>or to pre- ary lore of the world. The work
young men filed in, each shaking home. It was here the nam e Jew serve the consonant text.
They waH n°f well done in all parts, and
his hand heartily as In» did so.
originated, and henceforth their separated the words by spaces, and niany books not in H ebrew , hut
Dr. Brown: “ Well, hoys, I am history is not th a t of Israel, but of probably originated the verse m ark. originally w ritten in Greek, were
very glad to see you all, and espec- Judaism . I speak of these things It was due to th eir dogm atic thor- added. Greek was now’ the popu-
ially t«> notice two or three new because they have a direct »»earing I oughness th at the old testam ent lar language, and the Jews neg-
faces.”
upon the origin and history of the was handed down to us with so lected the Hebrew alm ost entirely
Mr. V otipka: “ Dr. Brown, these hook about which we are talking, great a degree of accuracy and free- a » the time of C hrist. The apostles
young men are brothers; John, in 5.36, B. C., 42,000 Jews started dom from the corruption th a t would quoted the scripture from this v er
Frank and Y aroCzek ” VThe young upon th e m arch for home, led by have crept in if handled during sion, and thus it passed into the
men bowed with some aw kw ard the high priest Joshua, who, no the later centuries. 11 is interesting church as the authorized version,
ness and em harassm ent, and finding doubt, had m any ideas of govern- to note th a t schools or seats of
“ The disputes and debates he-
chairs they assum ed the attitu d e of m ent and religion from the courts learning were a t this tim e flourish- tween the Jew s and the C hristians
interested atten tio n .)
anil tem ples of Babylon. It will at jbg
Tiberias, in Galilee, and a t over points of the law seem to come
Dr. Brown: “ Well, friends, I have once he ap p aren t that church and Sora, in the E u p h rates valley. I echoing down to me through the
given the m atter of Mr. PaHvec’s slate could not he other than insep- have no doubt the thoughtful Jesus af?es. The two parties, in philogo-
question some though, since you arable under such conditions. In spent much of his early years at p»’y, denied and affirmed the tru tli-
were here, and I tru st you m ay Ke a few years another ex,»edition this former place, hut history is fulness of this text, and I suppose
helped by what I have to say. We started undeK the leadership of silent on the subject. These schol-
Spirits of the Ptolem ies held up
are to inquire regarding w hat is Ezra, who at once set a»>out collect- ars were called Massorites. W h at th eir hands in wonder a t the sight
knovv’ii about th a t hook com m only ing the ancient w ritings of the law. has been called the M assorah was
the rum pus their work was rais-
called the bible; the hook th at has This work, in which N ehem iah al*o a m a s s of notes or com m ents th e ’ >ngf The .Jews gave up this version
been more widely
inent r part,
not only *-••iiJUMirun
T alm udists uau
had v’
com
m 1 itted
to incur
mem- and
went hack to the Hebrew. The
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* read, am. which took a prom
has exerted more influence on the the collection of the w ritings, but ory and handed down by tradition, most scholarly of the C h ristian s
race, both for g o o d and ill, than extended much farther. It will be but in no wav
the e tried
vay m arked upon th
to learn the language In
any other w riting in hum an his- seen th a t a n atu ra l
pride arose to texts. The Massorites now under- 430, A. D., Jerom e tried the R e
t°rv ; a hook about which clings establish a national character, and took t<) c,o t hjH> Hn(j
work con- brew, and studied with a Jew, learn-
more trad itio n , m yth and supersti to th is generation Isaiah and Jere- tinued u n til 1100, the date of the in g a ll his teacher knew. He now
tion th an could lie mentioned in m iah became idealized. They were oldest m anuscription now known 8el himself at work to tra n sla te the
volumes o f print. I, is of this l»ook easily made great and true prophets to exist. This work shows th e o r*ginal text. He did this with the
th at I wish to talk to you, and as I of the Spirit. The Hebrew lan- trace of m any hands, and m ust
(C o n tin u e d on t h i r d p u g e T