[415] “The people had learned to draw nigh to God without the aid of sacrifice.”—W. Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites (1894), p. 215.
[416] Cf. Mark i. 21; vi. 2.
[417] Renan, History of the People of Israel (1895), vol. iv, p. 195.
[418] Consult on this subject Charles, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1898–1899).
[419] See above, pp. 139 f.
[420] See Cheyne, Jewish Religious Life after the Exile (1898), p. 229; and Toy, Judaism and Christianity (1891), pp. 378, 386.
[421] Ps. xvi. 10, Rev. Ver.
“I know without me God cannot a moment live;
If I to death should go, He, too, would death receive.”