The Christian Graces a Series of Lectures On 2 Peter I 5 12
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And when we look upon "the dark places of the earth filled with the habi- tations of cruelty, " we should remember " the rock whence we are hewn, and the hole of the pit whence we are digged, " and consider that these are our brethren, like to our very fathers, and that in a hundred years they of the Pacific islands may become what a thousand years have made of the British isles. When Paul stood up in the midst of Mars Hill, and declared that " God had made of one blood all nations of men to dw...ell on all the face of the earth, " he conquered his own prejudices as a Jew, and faced the deepest pre- judices of the Greek. He, a Hebrew of the 209 Hebrews, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, trained in that peculiar pride which the Jew kept up through all the changes of political fortune to his race — whether amid the glories of Solo- mon, or in exile by the rivers of Babylon, whether in the brief independence won bj the patriotism and heroism of the Maccabees, or under the galling yoke of the Eoman con- querer — that pride of birth and nation as the elect of God which was the inextinguishable possession of the Jew ; Paul, nursed in this upon his mother's knee, confirmed in this in the school of Gamaliel, liow casts it all away and sees in every man a brother, saying, " I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and the unw^ise.
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