The Old Testament in the Sunday-school

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Teacher's college, Columbia University, 1912 - 141 páginas
 

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Página 122 - But the vultures answered, and said, ' We are flying to the north, and your face is turned towards the south. We desire to continue on our way ; and be it known unto thee, O king! that we will not turn back on our flight, neither will we fly above your throne to protect you from the sun, although its rays may be scorching your neck and face.
Página 3 - Now the change which is coming into our education is the shifting of the center of gravity. It is a change, a revolution, not unlike that introduced by Copernicus when the astronomical center shifted from the earth to the sun. In this case the child becomes the sun about which the appliances of education revolve; he is the center about which they are organized.
Página 37 - I cannot even now take up this marvellous book, nay, nor even speak of it, without the tears rising to my eyes, and my heart beating higher. This apparently trivial book is one of the deepest and grandest that was ever written, and I should like to say to...
Página 122 - LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their pounding waves.
Página 132 - The Lord, he is God ; the Lord, he is God. And the Lord shall be King over all the earth : in that day shall the Lord be One, and his name One.
Página 12 - George Adam Smith, Modern Criticism and the Preaching of the Old Testament.
Página 33 - Not only is the narrative constructed with a careful and uniform regard to chronology, but the history advances along a well-defined line, marked by a gradually diminishing length of human life, by the revelation of God under three distinct names, Elohim, El Shaddai? and Jehovah, by the blessing of Adam, with its characteristic conditions, and by the subsequent covenants with Noah, Abraham, and Israel, each with its special " sign," the rainbow, the rite of circumcision, and the Sabbath (Gen.
Página 39 - the prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.
Página 58 - Isaac 8 has been used for primary children as an example of obedience. Even if this were the point of the story, the taking of a boy's life with a gleaming knife is not the kind of picture to help a child. Neither is the conception of God making such a demand, nor of a father obeying even if God could be conceived of as asking it, the Christian 1.
Página 36 - It should be remarked that the influence it exercised did not begin till after the completion of the Old Testament Canon. There is not one indication that the prophets of Israel ever gave a thought to the speculations which the Yah wist has clothed for us in these attractive stories.

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