Chapter XX: THE LAW, xx. 1-17

What the law did. It could not justify. It reveals obligation, 280.--It convicts, not enables. It is an organic whole. And a challenge, 281.--The Spirit enables: love is fulfilment of law. Luther's paradox, 283.--Law and Gospel contrasted. Its spiritual beauty: two noble failures, 283.--The Jewish arrangement of the Commandments. St. Augustine's. The Anglican. An equal division, 284-6.

THE PROLOGUE, xx. 2.

Their experience of God, 286.--God and the first table. The true object of adoration: men must adore. Agnosticism, 287.--God and the second table, 288.--Law appeals to noble motives, 289.

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT, xx. 3.

Monotheism and a real God, 289.--False creeds attractive. Spiritualism. Science indebted to Monotheism, 290.--Unity of nature a religious truth. Strength of our experimental argument. 291.--Informal apostacy. Luther's position. Scripture. The Chaldeans, 292.--Animal pleasure, 293.--The remedy: "Thou shalt have ... Me," 294.

THE SECOND COMMANDMENT, xx. 4-6.

Imagery not all idolatry. The subtler paganisms, 295. Spiritual worship, like a Gothic building, aspires: images lack expansiveness, 296.--God is jealous, 297.--The shadow of love, 298. Visiting sins on children, 299, 300.--Part of vast beneficent law, 300-2.--Gospel in law, 302.

THE THIRD COMMANDMENT, xx. 7.

Meaning of "in vain," 302.--Jewish superstition. Where swearing is wholly forbidden, 303.--Fruitful and free use of God's name, 304-5.

THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 8-11.

Law of Sabbath unique. Confession of Augsburg. Of Westminster, 305.--Anglican position. St. Paul, 306.--The first positive precept. Love not the abolition of the law, 307.--Property of our friends. The word "remember." The story of creation, 305.--The manna. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 309.--Christ's freedom was that of a Jew. "Sabbath for man," 310.--Our help, not our fetter. "My Father worketh," 311.

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 12.

Bridge between duty to God and to neighbour, 312.--Father and child, 313.--"Whosoever hateth not." Christ and His mother. Its sanction, 314.

THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 13.

Who is neighbour? Ethics and religion, 315-16.--Science and morals, 317.--A Divine creature. Capital punishment, 318.

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 14.

Justice forbids act: Christ forbids desire. Sacredness of body, 319.--Human body connects material and spiritual worlds. Modifies, while serves, 320.--Marriage a type, 321.

THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 15.

Assailed by communism, by Rome. Various specious pleas, 322.--Laws of community binding, 323.--None may judge his own case, St. Paul enlarges the precept, 324.

THE NINTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 16.

Importance of words. Various transgressions, 325.--Slander against nations, against the race. Love, 326-7.

THE TENTH COMMANDMENT, xx. 17.

The list of properties, 328.--The heart. The law searches, 329.

THE LESSER LAW, xx. 18-xxiii. 33.

A remarkable code. The circumstances, 331.--Moses fears: yet bids them fear not, 332-3.--Presumption v. awe. He receives an expanded decalogue, an abridged code, 334.--Laws should educate a people; should not outrun their capabilities, 335-6.--Five subdivisions, 337.

I. THE LAW OF WORSHIP, xx. 22-26.

Images again forbidden, 337.--Splendour and simplicity. An objection, 338.--Modesty, 339.

CHAPTER XXI. THE LESSER LAW (_continued_).

II. RIGHTS OF THE PERSON, xxi. 1-32.

The Hebrew slave. The seventh year. Year of jubilee. His family, 340.--The ear pierced. St. Paul's "marks of the Lord." Assaults, 341.--The Gentile slave, 342. The female slave, 342-3.--Murder and blood-fiends, 343.--Parents. Kidnappers, 344.--Eye for eye. Mitigations of _lex talionis_, 344-5.--Vicious cattle, 346.

III. RIGHTS OF PROPERTY, xxi. 33-xxii. 15.

Negligence: indirect responsibility: various examples, 346-8.--Theft, 348.

CHAPTER XXII. THE LESSER LAW (_continued_).

IV. VARIOUS ENACTMENTS, xxii. 16-xxiii. 19.

Disconnected precepts. No trace of systematic revision. Certain capital crimes, 348-9.

SORCERY, xxii. 18.

Abuses have recoiled against religion, 349.--Sorcerers are impostors, but they existed, and do still, 350.--Moses could not leave them to enlightened opinion. Propagated apostacy, 351.--Traitors in a theocracy, 352.--When shall witchcraft die? 353.

THE STRANGER, xxii. 21; xxiii. 9.

"Ye were strangers," 354.--A fruitful principle. Morality not expediency, 355.--Cruelty often ignorance: Moses educates, 356.--The widow. The borrower, 357.--Other precepts, 358.

CHAPTER XXIII. THE LESSER LAW (_continued_).

An enemy's cattle. A false report, 359.--Influence of multitude: the world and the Church, 360-1.--Favour not the poor, 361-2.--Other precepts. "A kid in his mother's milk," 362.

LESSER LAW, V. ITS SANCTIONS xxiii. 20-33.

A bold transition: the Angel in Whom is "My Name," 363.--Not a mere messenger, 364.--Nor the substitute of chap. xxxiii. 2, 3, 365-6.--Parallel verses, 366-7.

CHAPTER XXIV.

THE COVENANT RATIFIED. THE VISION OF GOD, xxiv.

The code is accepted, written, ratified with blood, 368.--Exclusion and admittance. The elders see God: Moses goes farther. Theophanies of other creeds, 369.--How could they see God? 370.--Moses feels not satisfaction, but desire, 371.--His progress is from vision to shadow and a Voice, 372.--We see not each other, 373.--St. Augustine, 373-4.--The vision suits the period: not post-Exilian, 374-5.--Contrast with revelation in Christ, 375.

CHAPTER XXV.

THE SHRINE AND ITS FURNITURE, xxv. 1-40.

The God of Sinai will inhabit a tent. His other tabernacles, 376-7.--The furniture is typical. Altar of incense postponed, 377.--The ark enshrines His law and its sanctions, 377-8.--The mercy-seat covers it, 378-81.--Man's homage. The table of shewbread, 382-3.--The golden candlestick (lamp-stand), 383-6.

THE PATTERN IN THE MOUNT, xxv. 9, 40.

Use in Hebrews. Plato, 386.--Not a model, but an idea. Art, 387.--Provisional institutions, 387-8.---The ideal in creation, 388.--In life, 389.

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE TABERNACLE.

"Temple" an ambiguous word, 390.--"Curtains of the Tabernacle," 391.--Other coverings, 392.--The boards and sockets, 392-3.--The bars. The tent, 393.--Position of veil, 394, and of the front, 395.

CHAPTER XXVII.

THE OUTER COURT.

The altar, 396.--The quadrangle, 397.--General effect, 398-400.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

THE HOLY GARMENTS.

Their import, 401.--The drawers. "Coat." Head-tires. Robe of the ephod. Ephod. Jewels, 402.--Breastplate. Urim and Thummim. Mitre. Symbolism, 403.

THE PRIESTHOOD.

Universal desire and dread of God, 404.--Delegates, 405. Scripture. First Moses, 406.--His family passed over. The double consciousness expressed, 407-9.--Messianic priesthood, 409.

CHAPTER XXIX.

CONSECRATION SERVICES.

Why consecrate at all? 410.--Moses officiates. The offerings, 411.--Ablution, robing, anointing, 412-13.--The sin-offering, 413-14. "Without the camp," 414. The burnt-offering, 415.--The peace-offering ("ram of consecration"), 415.--The wave-offerings, 415-16.--The result, 416-17.

CHAPTER XXX.

INCENSE, xxx. 1-10.

The impalpable in nature, 418.--"The golden altar," 419.--Represents prayer. Needs cleansing, 420.

A CENSUS, xxx. ii-16.

A census not sinful. David's transgression. The half-shekel. Equality of man, 421.--Christ paid it, 422.--Its employment, 423.

THE LAVER, xxx. 17-21.

Behind the altar. Purity of priests, 423.--Made of the mirrors, 424.

ANOINTING OIL AND INCENSE, xxx. 22-38.

Their ingredients. All the vessels anointed, 424.--Forbidden to secular uses, 425.--Modern analogies, 426-7.

CHAPTER XXXI.

BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB, xxxi. 1-18.

Secular gifts are sacred, 428-30.--The Sabbath. The tables and "the finger of God," 431.

CHAPTER XXXII.

THE GOLDEN CALF.

Sin of the people; of Aaron. God rejects them, 432.--Intercession. The Christian antitype, 433-4.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

PREVAILING INTERCESSION.

The first concession. The angel, 435.--"The Tent of the Meeting," 436.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

THE VISION OF GOD.

To know is to desire to know. A fit season. The greater Name, 438.--The covenant renewed. The tables. The skin of his face shone, 439.--Lessons, 440.

CHAPTERS XXXV.-XL. CONCLUSION.

The people obey, 441.--The forming of the nation: review, 441-3.