[356] A man became a prophet only by his powers of insight and foresight; until that was certified to the people, he was no prophet to them.  When it was, it was because he convinced them by his manifestation of the truth; consequently any revision of the law by a prophet was a constitutional amendment by the people themselves.

[357] Hitzig, Urgeschichte und Mythologie der Philister.  Tacitus probably referred to the Cretan origin of the Philistines, when he says that the Jews were originally natives of the island of Crete.  See his account of Moses and his institutions, Historia, V. 1-6.

[358]

    “Out from the heart of nature rolled
    The burdens of the Bible old;
    The litanies of nations came,
    Like the volcano’s tongue of flame,
    Up from the burning core below,—­
    The canticles of love and woe.”

Emerson, The Problem.

[359] See this point fully discussed in Ritter, Palestine (Am. ed.), Vol.  I. pp. 81-151.

[360] See Weil, Biblical Legends, for the Mohammedan traditions concerning Solomon.

[361] For he perceives the idea, but not its application to himself.

[362] Neither of them perceives that he is the object of the injury.

[363] Eccles. i. 2-11.

[364] Ibid. i. 12; ii. 11.

[365] Ibid. ii. 12-20.

[366] Ibid. ii. 24.

[367] Ibid. iii. 1-11.

[368] Ibid. iii. 18-21.

[369] Ibid. iv. 1-3.

[370] Ibid. iv. 9-12.

[371] Ibid. v. 1-7, 18.

[372] Ibid. vi.

[373] Eccles. vii. 2, 10, 15, 16.

[374] Ibid. vii. 26-28.

[375] Ibid. viii. 2, 3, 4, 11, 14(ix. 2, 3), 15, 17.

[376] Ibid. xi. 1, 2, 6.

[377] Ibid. xii. 1-8, 9, 12, 13.

[378] Doellinger, The Gentile and the Jew.

[379] See article on the Talmud, Quarterly Review, 1867.

[380] An anecdote was recently related of a little girl, five years old, who was seen walking along the road, looking up into the trees.  Being asked what she was seeking, she replied:  “Mamma told me God was everywhere, but I cannot see him in that tree.”  The faith of the patriarchs was like that of this child,—­not false, but unenlightened.

[381] “And the Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?  And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.  And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him.  And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?  And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.  And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also:  go forth and do so.”

[382] See Greg, The Creed of Christendom, Chap.  V. Also, The Spirit of the Bible, by Edward Higginson.

[383] Mohammed der Prophet, sein Leben und seine Lehre.  Stuttgart, 1843.