{"product_id":"2940011824159","title":"Expositions of Holy Scripture: Ezekiel, Daniel and the Minor Prophets; and Matthew Chaps. I to VIII","description":"This is part of a vision which came to the prophet in his captivity. He\u003cbr\u003e   is carried away in imagination from his home amongst the exiles in the\u003cbr\u003e   East to the Temple of Jerusalem. There he sees in one dreadful series\u003cbr\u003e   representations of all the forms of idolatry to which the handful that\u003cbr\u003e   were left in the land were cleaving. There meets him on the threshold\u003cbr\u003e   of the court the image of jealousy,' the generalised expression for the\u003cbr\u003e   aggregate of idolatries which had stirred the anger of the divine\u003cbr\u003e   husband of the nation. Then he sees within the Temple three groups\u003cbr\u003e   representing the idolatries of three different lands. First, those with\u003cbr\u003e   whom my text is concerned, who, in some underground room, vaulted and\u003cbr\u003e   windowless, were bowing down before painted animal forms upon the\u003cbr\u003e   walls. Probably they were the representatives of Egyptian worship, for\u003cbr\u003e   the description of their temple might have been taken out of any book\u003cbr\u003e   of travels in Egypt in the present day. It is only an ideal picture\u003cbr\u003e   that is represented to Ezekiel, and not a real fact. It is not at all\u003cbr\u003e   probable that all these various forms of idolatry were found at any\u003cbr\u003e   time within the Temple itself. And the whole cast of the vision\u003cbr\u003e   suggests that it is an ideal picture, and not reality, with which we\u003cbr\u003e   have to do. Hence the number of these idolaters was seventy--the\u003cbr\u003e   successors of the seventy whom Moses led up to Sinai to see the God of\u003cbr\u003e   Israel! And now here they are grovelling before brute forms painted on\u003cbr\u003e   the walls in a hole in the dark. Their leader bears a name which might\u003cbr\u003e   have startled them in their apostasy, and choked their prayers in their\u003cbr\u003e   throats, for Jaazan-iah means the Lord hears.' Each man has a censer in\u003cbr\u003e   his hand--self-consecrated priests of self-chosen deities. Shrouded in\u003cbr\u003e   obscurity, they pleased themselves with the ancient lie, The Lord sees\u003cbr\u003e   not; He hath forsaken the earth.' And then, into that Sanhedrim of\u003cbr\u003e   apostates there comes, all unknown to them, the light of God's\u003cbr\u003e   presence; and the eye of the prophet marks their evil.","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068342452464,"sku":"2940011824159","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011824159_p0.jpg?v=1763550152","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011824159","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}