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THE ETHICS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
BS 1199 E8 B88
"THE OLD TESTAMENT will still be a New Testament to
him who comes with a fresh desire of information."
-FULLER.
PRINTED BY MORRISON AND GIBB
FOR
T. & T. CLARK, EDINBURGH
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, AND CO. LIMITED
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
TORONTO THE WILLARD TRACT DEPOSITORY
Nature of Old Testament Ethics-Without scientific
form yet progressive-An almost untrodden
field-Gains from scientific study of Old Testa-
ment-Moral difficulties-Their solution im-
possible apart from general presentation of Old
Testament Ethics-Every science should be set
in its own light-Different aims of Theology and
Ethics of Old Testament: (1) CONTRAST BE-
TWEEN THE ETHICS OF OLD TESTAMENT AND
ETHICS OF PAGAN ANTIQUITY-Plato-Aristotle
-Absence of knowledge of sin; (2) FUNDA-
MENTAL PRINCIPLES OF OLD TESTAMENT ETHICS
-The Supreme Good-It is thrown forward
into the future of Messianic hope-Establish-
ment of a kingdom of righteousness the goal-
Never an individual good, but a social one—
Doctrine of Virtue-The will of God, not moral
consciousness, the basis-The subjective prin-
ciple a free, loving obedience
CHAPTER II
THE ETHICAL CHARACTER OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT REVELATION
The ethics connected with the history of Israel-A natural and theistic basis-Doctrine of evolu-
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