The moral law of the Egyptian religion, then, was doubtless copied from the true religion of the Antediluvian patriarchs by this wise and righteous Pharaoh; but being left in the hands of a people who soon fell away from righteous principles to the practice of gross sensualism, the divergence between moral theory and moral practice soon set in and drifted ever wider and wider apart, until we have the result observed and commented upon by the authorities above quoted.
9. Observations on this Lesson: Read Note II, Lesson XII, and accept explanation there made as to copious notes for this lesson. Also adopt suggestion as to larger treatment of this lesson.
Footnotes
[1]. This is, doubtless, the "War in heaven" of the Hebrew Scriptures, with the results reversed.
LESSON XIV.
(Scripture Reading Exercise.)
ANCIENT CONCEPTIONS OF GOD.—(Continued.)
ANALYSIS. | REFERENCES. |
VI. Beliefs of the Phoenicians and Their Colonies. 1. The Phoenicians. 2. Their Principal Deities. | Myers "General History." Ch. vii. "Mythologies of All Nations" (Crabb), Chs. lv and lvi. "The Story of the World's Worship" (Dobbins), p. 142 et seq. Myers' "General History," Ch. viii. Book of Daniel, the Prophet. Burder's "History of All Religions," p. 519 et seq. Ten Great Religions (Clarke), Ch. 1, and the |
VII. Persian Ideas of God, and Worship. 1. The Persians. 2. Persian Religion and Worship. |
SPECIAL TEXT: "Thus saith the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus: * * * * I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside Me; I girded thee, though thou hast not known Me." (Isaiah xlv:1, 2, 3.)