Observations On the Bible for the Use of Young Persons
Observations On the Bible for the Use of Young Persons
Samuel Atkins Eliot
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There are crimes enough recorded in the history of all nations, but where else were the rebuke and the punishment of crime recorded ? This is a distinction of the Hebrew literature from that of every other tongue, that deserves something more than a passing remark, or acknowledgment. It is fundamental and inestimable. Every thing seems to have been written, whether history, poetry, prophecy, orproverb, to illustrate the advantage and beauty of vir- 93 HISTORICAL BOOKS. Tue, the disgrace and def...ormity of evil deeds. Every record of character and conduct points out its right, or its wrong. Every precept is given to inculcate virtue, and every promise and every threat is directed to the encouragement of the upright, and the terror of evil doers. Throughout the whole of the Hebrew litera- ture, whether esteemed canonical or not, there is one continued series of lessons in virtue, and warnings against vice and crime, both by precept and example, exhortation and threat. And it stands absolutely alone in this its glory.
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