of the Apostle's words--all this lies on the surface--but beneath all this the

וְהָיוּ לִמְאוֺרֹת Genesis 1:15 (P) and they shall become (fulfil the function of, serve

that the beasts , instead of being warned to depart from beneath the shadow

world-power; it is true that men called to be Christian teachers forgot their function, and used

adder in the path bites man's heel, and is crushed beneath his tramp. It has

phrase, "an holy ( i.e. , consecrated) nation," describe the whole Israelite nation as they stood beneath Mount Sinai. This must

ideas, both encircled the world, and occupied the vast hollows beneath the earth

the development for which it was intended. He could not have discharged this function had He and

Moses Law and Sacrifice, and in Elijah the prophetic function, met by the

of Israel; and his history sets forth large lessons as to its function among the nations

sit in Moses' seat as judges for God. They exercised a function of God