Identifier: jesusofnazarethh00abbo (find matches)
Title: Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922
Subjects: Jesus Christ
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ses, in the law, commanded us that such shouldbe stoned; but what sayest thou ? The problem was a perplexing one. Should he decline toadjudge the case—he. King of Israel—he who, among theGalilean mountains, had put his precepts above those of Mo-ses in the words But I say unto you. Should he releaseher — he who had indignantly denied the charge alreadybrought against him of seeking to overturn the statutes ofthe ancient commonwealth; who had declared that not onejot or tittle should pass away unfulfilled, and that whosoev-er relaxed its least precept should be least in the kingdom hehad come to establish? Should he then adjudge her guilty,revive this long-since-forgotten law, and give assent to itsenforcement—he who had received among his disciples thepublican and the harlot; who had suifered unrebuked thehomage of a woman of the town; who had come, not to de-stroy mens lives, but to save them—could he thus belie him-self? Indignant at the base duplicity which could intrude*
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THE FRIEND OF SINNERS. Oct., A.D. 33.) THE.PRIESTS CONDEMNED. 345 such a scene as this upon the Temple service, Jesus disre-garded the clamor of the crowd, and, stooping, wrote uponthe ground as one preoccupied with his thoughts. Then lift-ing himself up, in a single sentence of bitter irony that seem-ed to condemn the accused, he pronounced judgment againsther self-constituted accusers : He that is without sin amono-you, let him first cast a stone at her. Unchastity was a universal vice in the first century. Pal-estine had borrowed from the Gentile world this sin, if it hadlearned no other. What must be the purity of that societyin which the Church awarded to every man a divorce whenhe wearied of his wife, and the king openly trampled underfoot the laws of God and the decencies of life with impunityas Herod Antipas had done, let the imagination conceive.Nowhere did this vice so run rampant as among the priests.Epicureans in philosophy and voluptuaries in practice, theirlicentiousness

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