Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

822 THE EvERJ.ASTING CovF.NANT. [.January
When lsrat'l, through materialism ani! through conforming
to the ideas :and habits of the surrounding nations, had lost
confidence in the name, and bad entered into treaty relations
with Egypt, the prophet came to them by the word of the Lm·d
and said: "That the kingdom might he \)ft!ltl, that it might .;ot
lift ib!elf up. but that by keeping or his novenant it might stand.
But be relw.lloo again11t him in sending his emha.'4Raclors into
Egypt, that they might give him hm·se11 antl much peopl.s.
Shall he pro11per '! 11hall he escape that doeth such thinga '? or
shall be break the tlOVtmant antl be tlt!li veretl '! A11 I live. saith
tbe Lord God, surely in the plaee whet·e the king dw.-lleth that
made him king, whose oath he despised and who11e ~~ovena.ut lae
brake, even with him, in the mii!Kt of Bab~·lnn, I.e Khall dit•."
EZt'kiel x vu. 14-16.
Thus Israel, whilst living under the covenant whit•h was seal~J
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with the everlasting name of God, was not allowe•l to eutet·
into covenant relations with any other. m· in any wa~· to trust in
any thing but in God; for God Haid hy .Jeremiah (m. 14 ), "I
am married untO yon." \\'ben they entered into covenant
with. or trusted in the power of other natinns, or the god (powet·)
of gold, silver, aml the workmanship of men's hatul11, "the~~e
Wt!re all accounted idols.'' In Isaiah ( 111. 9) we •~acl, "Antl it
came to pass through the fame of her whoredom, that she defiled
the land, and committed adultery with stnne11 and stock11."
It may be objected that we are here emph;\llizing a wrong interpretation
of the text. that its meaning is simply th:Lt Israel
howerl down to wood and stone. as dn I nclia autl China at th ..
present time; hut .TesuR oame as '• the mea11enger of the covenant,"
and in his sermon on the Mount, immediately after he
hacl taught that wondet•fnl prayer of which the chief petition
ia that the Father'" name may be hallowed, he makes this
elaborate and most extt·eme t·equirement of all thu11e who
hallow the name: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upou
ea1·th, where moth and t•nst doth corrupt. and where thieve~t
break through and steal: for where yont• treasure iK, there will
your h~art he also. The light of the hotly is tbto eye: if therefore
thine eye be single thy whole hOtly 11hall be full of light:
but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall he full of tlark-
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