The Works of Nathaniel Lardner, D.D. with a Life by Dr. Kippis (Volume 1) - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1838 Excerpt: ... CHAP. II. OP THE STATE OF THE JEWS IN JUDEA, DURING THE MINISTRY OF OUR SAvIOUR AND HIS APOSTLES. I. The religious state of the Jews, according to the writers of the New Testament. 11. According to other ancient writers. III. The method of considering their civil state, in four periods, proposed. IV. Three preliminary observations. V. Their civil state, in the first period, according to the writers of the New Testament. VI. Some difficulties relating to it considered. VII. Their state, in the second period, according to the same writers. VIII. In the third. IX. In the fourth period. X. Some difficulties relating to this last period. XI. The civil state of Judea, in the first and last periods, according to other ancient writers. XII. In the second. XIII. In the third period. XIV. The chief captain at Jerusalem. XV. The captain of the temple. XVI. Festus's council. IN considering the state of the Jews in their own country, two things are to be regarded, their religious and their civil state. I. That they had, according to the sacred writers, the free exercise of their religion, is evident from the whole tenor of the history contained in the gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. They had their synagogues, the law and the prophets were read there; our Saviour taught in the synagogues. Whenever he healed any lepers, he " bid them go and shew themselves to the priests," Matt. viii. 4. "and offer the gifi that 31oses commanded," Luke v. 14. There appears to have been a great resort to the temple at Jerusalem, from Galilee, and other parts, at all their usual great feasts. They were at full liberty to make what contributions they saw fit to their sacred treasury; Mark xii. 41, 44, Luke xxi. 1; and so secure were they, that they used indirect practices to enrich it;...