The Jews who were called to subdue the nations and their kings were slaves of sin, and the Christians whose calling has been to be servants and subjects, are free children.
The devil troubled the zeal of the Jews before Jesus Christ, because he would have been their salvation, but not since.
The Jewish people mocked of the Gentiles, the Christian people persecuted.
Republic.—The Christian and even the Jewish Republic has only had God for master, as Philo the Jew notices, On Monarchy.
When they fought, they did so for God alone, their chief hope was in God alone, they considered their towns as belonging to God, and they kept them for God. I Chron. xix. 13.
The sceptre was not interrupted by the carrying away into Babylon, because the return was promised and foretold.
A single phrase of David or of Moses, as for instance that God will circumcise the heart, enables us to judge of their spirit. If all the rest of their language were ambiguous, and left it doubtful whether they were philosophers or Christians, one single sentence of this kind would determine all the rest, as one sentence of Epictetus determines the character of the rest to be the contrary. So far we may be in doubt, but not afterwards.
While the prophets were for maintaining the law, the people were negligent, but since there have been no more prophets, zeal has taken their place.
The zeal of the Jewish people for the law, especially since there have been no more prophets.
Maccabees after they had no more prophets. The Masorah after Jesus Christ.