2012, ISBN: 1231031549

[EAN: 9781231031544], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers c… More...

[EAN: 9781231031544], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.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. 1907 Excerpt: .will avoid wilful sin, for which there is no remedy. This conviction and generally the direction of the people was the function of the Scribes of the Pharisees. No matter that for long no faithful prophet had appeared. The Sages and the Scribes were also God's Apostles. They had followed the prophets in their insistence upon the general principles of the Law, and in their proper persons they had inherited and developed a system of case law, whose observance should preclude the transgression of the earlier Torah. The men of the Great Synagogue said three things: "Be deliberate in judgment, and raise up many disciples, and make a fence to Torah V R. Aqiba said: "Tradition is a fence to Torah." The point is developed by Philo with characteristic amplitude. As a practical moralist he accepted without hesitation the principle that humanly speaking this tradition is of more immediate importance than the Law itself, whose corollary and safeguard it is. "Moreover also, this profitable precept was added to the code, 'Disturb not boundaries of the neighbour which they that were before thee set.' This law it would seem. does not only contemplate the removal of covetousness, but also the keeping of the ancient customs. For customs (e07j) are unwritten laws, dogmas (decisions) of men of old not engraved on pillars and parchments, which moths destroy, but upon souls of those who share the same polity. For children ought to inherit from parents (apart from their property) the ancestral customs, in which they were educated and with which they have lived from their very cradles, and not to despise them because the tradition thereof is unwritten. For he that obeys the written laws does not deserve praise, being admonished by compulsion and fear of punis.<

2012, ISBN: 1231031549

[EAN: 9781231031544], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers c… More...

[EAN: 9781231031544], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.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. 1907 Excerpt: .will avoid wilful sin, for which there is no remedy. This conviction and generally the direction of the people was the function of the Scribes of the Pharisees. No matter that for long no faithful prophet had appeared. The Sages and the Scribes were also God's Apostles. They had followed the prophets in their insistence upon the general principles of the Law, and in their proper persons they had inherited and developed a system of case law, whose observance should preclude the transgression of the earlier Torah. The men of the Great Synagogue said three things: "Be deliberate in judgment, and raise up many disciples, and make a fence to Torah V R. Aqiba said: "Tradition is a fence to Torah." The point is developed by Philo with characteristic amplitude. As a practical moralist he accepted without hesitation the principle that humanly speaking this tradition is of more immediate importance than the Law itself, whose corollary and safeguard it is. "Moreover also, this profitable precept was added to the code, 'Disturb not boundaries of the neighbour which they that were before thee set.' This law it would seem. does not only contemplate the removal of covetousness, but also the keeping of the ancient customs. For customs (e07j) are unwritten laws, dogmas (decisions) of men of old not engraved on pillars and parchments, which moths destroy, but upon souls of those who share the same polity. For children ought to inherit from parents (apart from their property) the ancestral customs, in which they were educated and with which they have lived from their very cradles, and not to despise them because the tradition thereof is unwritten. For he that obeys the written laws does not deserve praise, being admonished by compulsion and fear of punis.<

ISBN: 1231031549

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