Re: LDS Thoughts and DOCTRINE.
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:35 pm
"In their relations with other peoples the Jews generally endeavoured to maintain a haughty exclusiveness, which brought upon them Gentile ridicule.
Under Mosaic law Israel had been required to keep apart from other nations; they attached supreme importance to their Abrahamic lineage as children of the covenant, “an holy people unto the Lord,” whom He had chosen “to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth."
Judah had experienced the woeful effects of dalliance with pagan nations, and, at the time we are now considering, a Jew who permitted himself unnecessary association with a Gentile became an unclean being requiring ceremonial cleansing to free him from defilement.
Only in strict isolation did the leaders find hope of insuring the perpetuity of the nation."
Under Mosaic law Israel had been required to keep apart from other nations; they attached supreme importance to their Abrahamic lineage as children of the covenant, “an holy people unto the Lord,” whom He had chosen “to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth."
Judah had experienced the woeful effects of dalliance with pagan nations, and, at the time we are now considering, a Jew who permitted himself unnecessary association with a Gentile became an unclean being requiring ceremonial cleansing to free him from defilement.
Only in strict isolation did the leaders find hope of insuring the perpetuity of the nation."