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Гарриет Бичер-Стоу. Woman in Sacred History
Woman in Sacred History
Table of Contents
THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THIS VOLUME
WOMAN IN SACRED HISTORY
INTRODUCTION
WOMEN OF THE PATRIARCHAL AGES
SARAH THE PRINCESS
HAGAR THE SLAVE
REBEKAH THE BRIDE
LEAH AND RACHEL
WOMEN OF THE NATIONAL PERIOD
MIRIAM, SISTER OF MOSES
DEBORAH THE PROPHETESS
DELILAH THE DESTROYER
JEPHTHA'S DAUGHTER
HANNAH THE PRAYING MOTHER
RUTH THE MOABITESS
THE WITCH OF ENDOR
QUEEN ESTHER
JUDITH THE DELIVERER
WOMEN OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA
MARY THE MYTHICAL MADONNA
MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS
THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS
THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA
MARY MAGDALENE
MARTHA AND MARY
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources
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We have been so long in the habit of hearing the Bible read in solemn, measured tones, in the hush of churches, that we are apt to forget that these men and women were really flesh and blood, of the same human nature with ourselves. A factitious solemnity invests a Bible name, and some good people seem to feel embarassed by the obligation to justify all the proceedings of patriarchs and prophets by the advanced rules of Christian morality. In this respect, the modern fashion of treating the personages of sacred story with the same freedom of inquiry as the characters of any other history has its advantages. It takes them out of a false, unnatural light, where they lose all hold on our sympathies, and brings them before us as real human beings. Read in this way, the ancient sacred history is the purest naturalism, under the benevolent guidance of the watchful Father of Nations.
Pascal very wisely says, "The whole succession of men during the long course of ages ought to be considered as a single man, who exists and learns from age to age." Considered in this light, it is no more difficult to conceive of an infinite Father tolerating an imperfect childhood of morals in the whole human race, than in each individual of that race. The patriarchs are to be viewed as the first pupils in the great training-school whence the world's teachers in morals were to come, and they are shown to us in all the crudity of early pupilage. The great virtue of which they are presented as the pattern is the virtue of the child and the scholar—FAITH.
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