Urging the
king by all means to secure copies of the sacred books of the Jews for
his great library in Alexandria, Phalerius said:
"Now it is necessary that thou shouldst have accurate copies of
them. And indeed this legislation is full of hidden wisdom, and
entirely blameless, as being the legislation of God; for which
cause it is, as Hecateus of Abdera says, that the poets and
historians make no mention of it, nor of those men who lead
their lives according to it, since it is a holy law, and ought
not to be published by profane mouths."--_Josephus,
"Antiquities," book 12, chap. 2, sec. 4._
Unfaithful as the Jewish people oftentimes were, yet through their
testimony and the dealings of God with them, the fame of the living
oracles was spread abroad among the ancient nations.
One God--One Moral Standard
"There is one Lawgiver." James 4:12. He is ever the same, and His law is
the standard of righteousness for all mankind. There was not one moral
standard before Christ and another after. Christ's death upon the cross
because man had broken the law, is the divine testimony to all the
universe that God's law can never be set aside nor its force suspended.
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