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William Lindsay Alexander [1808-1884] • SECTION 559

The Pulpit Commentary — Deuteronomy — Section 559

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Woo.Ith Perilons to Piety ... 159 teonsness • 200 The Uses of Adversity 161 The Dree.d Alternative before eve~; Not Drea.d, but God's Word 161 Man ... 201 God the Cho.stener 162 Obligations Arising from Personal The Good La.nd .. . 162 Experience 203 The Dangers of Wee.Ith 162 Canaan and Egypt 20-1, The Blessing of a The.nkful Spirit 163 The Great Alternative 205 Good at the Le.tter End .. . 163 Vastness of Promise 205 The Lessons of the Wilderness 164 Gerizim and Ebo.I 206 God Forgotten amid Second Ca.nses... 164 Ocular Demonstrations of God's Ne;;: ness Increase Human Responsibility 206 CHAPTER IX. Obedience Leads to Prolonged Posses- sion ... 207 A Six-Weeks' Religion; or, Emotional Valuable Possessions Reserved for the Religiousness not Vita.I Godliness 167 Righteous 207 True Gree.tness Manifested in a God's Word Potent to Dominate the Great Emergency, by Self-Sacrifice 169 Whole Life 208 Self.Righteousness 171 He who best Serves is most fit to Rnle 208 The Sin at Horeb 172 Startling Alternatives 209 Moses' Intercession 173 Divine Jndgments npon Others, to Against Self-Righteous Conceit 173 Ensure Obedience in Us 209 • Human Memory a Repository of Guilt 174 The Land of Promise 210 The Place of Human Mediation 175 Family Training an Element of Suc- The Policy of Reprobation 177 cess ... 211 Humiliating Memories 178 Life's Solemn ..A..lternative ... 213 CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XIL The Results of the Intercessory Prayer Regnlations for Divine Worship; of Moses 180 Specific Rules Embodying Perma- Israel's Duty Summed up and Touch- nent Principles 217 ingly Enforced... 183 Destruction of Monument.a of Idolatry 219 God no Respeoter of Persons 184 The, Central Sanctuary 219 Tokens of Meroy... 186- Public Worship ... 220 The Supreme Requirement 186 The Divine Regnla.tion of Food 221 The Supreme Persuasive 187 The Levite 221 Ilea.rt Ciroumcision 187 Unworthy Inquiries 221 The Invasion a Religions One 222 Love the Stranger 188 Religion in Brief... 188 Centralize.tion in Worship ... 223 The Lo.w Deposited in the Ark 188 Private Worship not the Substitute for Public 224 Progress 189 The Sanctity of Blood 225 Knowledge of God the Parent of The Doom of Idolatry 225 Obedient Faith 190 Cho.racteristio Signs of Jebovah's The Covenant Renewed 192 Worship 226 The Sepe.ration of the Sons of Levi... 192 The Subtle Ensnarement of Idolatry 227 New Obedience ... 193 :: r 3 It INDEX.

CHAPTER XIII. 'l'RDrB r.lG■ TnEn PAO'.I Feast of Tabemaoles, or of Ingather- Temptations to Depart from God to be ing ,.. 276, 278, 283 R~sisted at all Costs 229 Model Judges 279 False Prophete . . . 231 The Passover a, Memorial of Deliver• God or Our Brother 232 a.noe ... 279 A City under Ban 233 The Fee.at of Tabernacles-Life a Idolatry to be Treated as a. Ca.pita.I Tented Sta.te .. . 281 Crime 234 Impartial Judges . .. 282 God's Executioners upon Idolaters 235 The Administration of Justice 284 The Pathways to Temptation to be CHAPTER XIV. Shunned 285 The People of God when Death is in the Home 238 CHAPTER XVII. T Lie People of God a.t Their Own Table 240 The Sacredness of Personal Reputa.- I.. Threefold Cord; or, the Triple Use ticn Seen in the Regulations Con- of Property 241 oerning Human Testimony 287 Sclf-Reepect in Mourning... 243 Religion the Guard of Justice 288 Cleau and Unclean 243 Kings Subject to the King of Kings 290 Seething a Kid in Its Mother's Milk 244 "No Retreat!" or, "The Gate Behind The Second Tithe 245 Us Closed" 291 Sorrow is to be in Holy Hopefoluess 246 The Blemished . .. 292 A Holy People will Eat Sanctified S~m~m ~2 Things 247 Criminal Procedure 293 Systematic Provision for Fellowship The Priest and the Judge ... 293 with God 248 The King in Israel 294 Against Conformity with Heathen Idolatry a Capital Crime ... 295 Customs 250 The Ruling Power of the Priests in Discrimination in Meats ... 250 the Jewish Church 296 God's Cla.im upon Onr Money Ga.ins 251 The Limitations of Monarchy 297, 300 The Prevention of Religious Fraud . . . 298 CHA.PTER XV. Idolatry a Crime against Society 299 Divine Checks on Human Greed 254 High Court of Appeal 299 The Duty of Kindness to the Poor 256 The Rights of the Slaves ... 258 CHAPTER XVIII. Sacrifices to be without Ble::niah 260 Tbe Support of the Ministry the Doty "The Lord's Release" 261 of God's People... 805 The Poor in the Land 262 "Spiritualism" condemned 306 Bondmen 263 Godflpeaking to Man through Me.n 808 The Firstlings ... • 263 God's Provision for the Priests and The Year of Forgiveneu 263 Levites 810 Open-Handedness 264 Divination Forbidden 811 The Freedom of the Sla'l'e ... 265 The Promised Prophet 311 The Firstlings for God 267 Tbe Lord Our Inheritance ... 812 A Bulwark against Cupidity 267 The Priesthood .,. 313 Slaves to be Regarded as Brethren ... 268 Love to the Sanctuary 813 The First for God 269 Magic ... 313 Prophecy 814 CHAPTER XVL Tbe Prophet like unto Moses 815 The Feast of the Passover... 272,276,282 The False Prophet 816 The Feast of Weeks, or of Harvest ... 274 The True Priest is the Highest Type Pentecost 277, 280 of Me.n ... 816 INDEX.

mu ■ PAOB OHAPTER XXII. Gross Superstition the Alternative of TBEHII PAOB

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