Israelites Quotes
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Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?
— Thomas Henry Huxley, in The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings, Macmillan, 1967, p.134.
I thank God humbly and sincerely. God, who has visited us with many trials, and led us like the Israelites of old from place to place without any certain abode, bless, we beseech Thee, our return home, and mercifully grant that the afflictions and anxieties of that long probation may bear fruit in a more self-denying and godly life:;; and that we may have our hearts fixed on a yet more abiding resting-place, eternal in the heavens, for Jesus Christ's sake.'
— Excerpt of Forbes' journal. September 1854. As quoted in Life and letters of James David Forbes' p. 369.
The true God may be personated. As He was, first, by Moses, who governed the Israelites, that were not his, but God’s people, not in his own name, with hoc dicit Mose s, but in God’s name, with hoc dicit Dominus .
— Thomas Hobbes, in Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, Ch. XVI : Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated
