The True Intellectual System of the Universe; Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated Volume

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ... tom amongst them, that they, which did eat bread together upon the same table, should be accounted ever afterwards as entire brethren.--And in this sense he conceiveth that place, Lamentations v. 6. may be expounded; " We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians by fulness of bread," i. e. We have made a covenant with them. Joshua ix. 14. When the Gibeonites came to the Israelites, and desired them to make a league with them, it is said, " The men of Israel took of their victuals, and asked not counsel of the mouth of the Lord;" that is, they made a covenant with them, as Kimchi learnedly expounds it, traTiaantma/Y'-na Tmoo DEGREESiio trvxDitppS Accepe runt de viatico ipsorum, et comederunt cum illis per modum foederis.--For so it follows afterward in the text, " And Joshua made peace with them." Hence also was that emphatical expression, Psalm xli. 9. spoken literally by David of Achitophel, " Mine own familiar friend, that did eat of my bread, hath lift up the heel against me;" but seeming prophetically to glance at Judas, that dipping with Christ in the same dish betrayed him. The singular emphasis of which speech, we, that are unacquainted with this custom of the oriental nations, cannot easily perceive; neither can we any where better learn it, than from that passage of Celsus in Origen, who carping at that history of Judas's betraying Christ in the gospel, as an incredible thing, made, in the meanwhile, an excellent comment upon this prophecy, when he little thought of it. ' Or i av0panra> juev o Koivwvwac rpairefrlC Ovk av Outw 'iiri DEGREESovivaeisv, iroXXw irXeov o Oeio ETrij3ouXoc lyivsTO, i. e. Si llO mini nemo insidiaretur ejusdem mensae particeps, multo minus Deo;--And Origen's...