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among them, both of religions and of morals, whereas they
themselves remain firm in their conduct; but that God will not leave other
nations in this darkness for ever; that there will come a Saviour for all;
that they are in the world to announce Him to men; that they are expressly
formed to be forerunners and heralds of this great event and to summon all
nations to join with them in the expectation of this Saviour.
To meet with this people is astonishing to me, and seems to me worthy of
attention. I look at the law which they boast of having obtained from God,
and I find it admirable. It is the first law of all and is of such a kind
that, even before the term law was in currency among the Greeks, it had, for
nearly a thousand years earlier, been uninterruptedly accepted and observed
by the Jews. I likewise think it strange that the first law of the world
happens to be the most perfect; so that the greatest legislators have
borrowed their laws from it, as is apparent from the law of the Twelve
Tables at Athens, afterwards taken by the Romans, and as it would be easy to
prove, if Josephus and others had not sufficiently dealt with this subject.
620. Advantages of the Jewish people.--In this search the Jewish people at
once attracts my attention by the number of wonderful and singular facts
which appear about them.
I first see that they are a people wholly composed of brethren, and whereas
all others are formed by the assemblage of an infinity of families, this,
though so wonderfully fruitful, has all sprung from one man alone, and,
being thus all one flesh, and members one of another, they constitute a
powerful state of one family. This is unique.
This family, or people,
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