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Excerpt from The Jews in English History: A Lecture
Tell me, said the Prussian monarch to his chaplain, tell me in two or three words the strongest argument for the inspiration of the Scriptures. Promptly came the reply in three words, The Jews, Sire And, in great measure, the chaplain was right. W hen we con sider the miraculous origin of the race, and the no less miraculous way in which the Jews have been preserved from the days Of Abraham downwards, scattered among all nations, yet mixing with none, oppressed by all, yet surviving still, maintaining, notwithstanding their aloofness from other peoples, their racial purity and their intellectual activity; and when we remember that, as their history has been unrolled before the world, it. Has been but the fulfilling of those ancient Scriptures, 'and that both the unrolling and the fulfilling are being carried on before our eyes at the present hour, we cannot but admit the Divine inspiration of those Sacred Records. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
