[History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of the Conflict Between Religion and Science CHAPTER II 17/56
Not so.
The honor we bear to Christ does not derogate from the honor we bear to God. On account of the merit of these ancient patriarchs, the Jews were the only beloved people of God; he delighted to be in communication with them by his own mouth.
By him they were raised to admirable greatness. But with perversity they wickedly ceased to regard him; they changed his laws into a profane worship.
He warned them that he would take to himself servants more faithful than they, and, for their crime, punished them by driving them forth from their country.
They are now spread all over the world; they wander in all parts; they cannot enjoy the air they breathed at their birth; they have neither man nor God for their king. As he threatened them, so he has done.
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