Chapter XVIII

CIVIL INSTITUTES OF MOSES CONTINUED;
Hebrew servitude, 294;
Man-stealing, 294;
No rendition of fugitives, 295;
Severe personal injuries entitled to freedom, 295;
Periodical emancipation, 296;
Religious privileges of servants, 298;
The slavery that existed before Moses, 299;
The condition of Israel in bondage in Egypt, 299;
The Jubilee, 300;
Its bearing upon foreign servants, 301;
Meaning of “bond-servant,” 302;
Servants of foreign birth, 302;
Judicial Procedure, 304;
Judges, 304;
The seat of justice, 305;
The processes of prosecution, 305;
Advocates, 305;
Of witnesses, 305;
Punishments, 306;
Fines, 306;
Sin and trespass offerings, 307;
Stripes, 307;
Excommunication, 308;
Modes of capital punishment, 308;
Disgrace after death, 308;
Judicial procedure and punishment summary, 308;
Statutes without penalties, 309;
Two Historic Questions, 311;
How far is this system indebted to Egypt? 311;
How far have the best civil codes of the most civilized
nations been indebted to this Hebrew code? 314;
Progressive revelations of God in this code, 319.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF THE HEBREWS, 321;
Classification of sacrifices, 322;
Choice of animals for sacrifice, 323;
The scenes of sacrifice, 324;
The significance of sacrifices, 325;
Of the portion taken as food, 326;
Special sacrifices, 327;
Sacred times and seasons, 327;
The Morning and Evening Sacrifice, 327;
The Sacrifices for the Sabbath, 328;
The sacrifices at each new moon, 328;
The three great festivals, 328;
The Passover, 328;
The Feast of Pentecost, 328;
The Feast of Tabernacles, 329;
The great day of Atonement, 331;
Sacred Edifices and Apparatus, 334;
The Sacred Orders, 335;
Present value of the Mosaic ritual, 336;
Its lessons on the blood of atonement, 338;
That these lessons are steps of _progress_ in the revelation
of God to men, 340.

CHAPTER XX.

HISTORIC EVENTS OF HEBREW HISTORY FROM SINAI TO THE JORDAN, 342;
The golden calf, 342;
The intercession of Moses, 343;
The Lord reveals his name and glory, 346;
Incidents connected with this idol-worship, 350;
Lessons from Moses on prayer, 353;
Taberah and Kibroth-hataavah, 354;
Miriam and Aaron envious of Moses, 355;
Kadesh-barnea and the unbelieving spies, 356;
Rebellion of Korah and his company, 360;
The fiery serpent and the brazen one, 363;
Balak and Balaam, 364;
Balaam’s prophecies, 367;
His prayer, 368.

CHAPTER XXI.

ON THE LAST FOUR BOOKS OF THE PENTATEUCH, 375;
Their _method_ and _subject-matter_, 375;
Leviticus, 376;
Numbers, 376;
Deuteronomy, 377;
Deut. 12–26, 378;
The prophet like Moses, 380;
The blessings and the curses, 383;
The last words of Moses, 384;
The Song of Moses, 386;
Moses blesses the tribes, Deut. 33, 394;
Death and character of Moses, 401;
The Mosaic system and the future life, 403;
Progressive developments of truth and of God, 412.

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