Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
21905	But this love, which limits and conquers self- love, this love which so well testifies to the excellence of man, whence does it proceed?
21905	Why, on the contrary, does he cling to it more and more?
6971	But even if Dr. Guttmann''s claim were granted, and it is considerably exaggerated, how does it help?
6971	Can any religious festival have a nobler subject?''
6971	Can the world afford to surrender a single one of its forces for good?
6971	Greek culture does not need Greeks to carry it on; why does Jewish culture need Jews?
6971	If there are ten millions of men, women, and children who live, and live not ignobly, by Judaism, can it be contended that Judaism is obsolete?
6971	Is it obsolete?
6971	Shall, he asks, we recognise Judaism as the solitary exception, as the unique instance of the survival of the unfit and the unnecessary?
6971	Should not a religion have a festival or holy day of this kind?
6971	The chief modern problem in Jewish life is just this: To what extent, and in what manner, can Judaism still place itself under the reign of Law?
6971	They reduced everything into one fabric; the good and holy was only one woof in a broad earthly warp''(_ What is Christianity?_ p. 47).
6971	Who contends that for carrying on Greek culture you need Greeks?
6971	Who is like unto Thee, Lord of mighty acts, and who resembleth Thee, O King, who killest and quickenest, and causest salvation to spring forth?
6971	Why then, when Judaea fell, did the Jews remain?
45952	), which took place at the very end of the forty years''wandering?
45952	Are there any traces of the influence of this idea at work in the religion of the Old Testament?
45952	Are we to refuse to read it and to reverse the judgment that included it in the Canon?
45952	But are these different points of view incompatible with a single author?
45952	But how are we to decide what is compatible with inspiration?
45952	But when did Israel embody such a conception?
45952	Can we be certain, without examining the facts, to what lines the revelation of God is to be restricted?
45952	Can we trace within this more limited circle a movement that shall in any way prepare us for the appearance of men of the type of Amos?
45952	Could He not use the early legends which they believed, and through them bring the truth to men?
45952	Could not God speak to man in his infancy, and with the growing understanding would there not be growing light?
45952	Did Jesus ever read that Book, or were its ideas at all commonly known?
45952	Do these reflect the conditions and development of his times?
45952	Fall of Nineveh 607_ Chaldà ¦ an Period._ Jeremiah 626- 586 Deuteronomy discovered 621 Habakkuk 605- 600?
45952	How came such a tender root out of such a dry ground?
45952	Is any such antithesis necessary?
45952	Is such a thing as its reception by the Hebrews credible on this account?
45952	Is this not coming to the Bible with a theory which we have manufactured and which will surely distort the facts?
45952	Israel had suffered for her sins of presumption and disobedience; but were the nations who punished her any more righteous?
45952	Return under Sheshbazzar(?)
45952	The question to be answered is: What was that"law of Moses"which Ezra brought to Jerusalem and read to the people?
45952	Was it a stone image of Jehovah?
45952	What are we to learn from this Book?
45952	What fulfilment would it be if Cyrus was yet a figure of the unknown future?
45952	What gave the name of David to that collection?
45952	What is the cause of that difference?
45952	What then is the significance of the expressions which seem to point to something more?
45952	What was it that led the Prophet to write down the message which he had delivered?
45952	What were the sources from which this code drew its material?
2849	And indeed our legislator hath expressly forbidden us to laugh at and revile those that are esteemed gods by other people?
2849	And what pretense could there be to suppose that the gods would not be seen by reason of the people''s maims in their bodies, or leprosy?
2849	And why do not the Eleans and Thebans abolish that unnatural and impudent lust, which makes them lie with males?
2849	And would not a man now laugh at this fellow''s trifling, or rather hate his impudence in writing thus?
2849	Besides, how came it to pass that this prophet did not foreknow his own death at the first?
2849	But if they were foreigners, why dost thou not tell us whence they came?
2849	But why should a man say any more to a person who tells such impudent lies?
2849	But why should we wonder at the lies he tells about our forefathers, when he affirms them to be of Egyptian original, when he lies also about himself?
2849	But, then, what are our laws about marriage?
2849	How can it then be supposed that Moses should ordain such laws against himself, to his own reproach and damage who so ordained them?
2849	If so, how came he not to know that such his desire was impossible to be accomplished?
2849	Nor call I devise what Apion would have said, had their habitation been at Necropolis?
2849	Now, to be sure, those that came could not be ignorant of this; but for the king''s repentance and flight, how could they possibly guess at it?
2849	To be sure?
2849	What are the things then that we are commanded or forbidden?
2849	What form of government then can be more holy than this?
2849	What friendship, I pray, or what relation was there formerly between them that required this assistance?
2849	What gods, I pray, did he desire to see?
2849	What people does he mean?
2849	What then can we say of Apion, but that he examined nothing that concerned these things, while still he uttered incredible words about them?
2849	Why then''dost thou call them Jews, if they were Egyptians?
2849	and what can be invented that is better?
2849	and what is more advantageous than mutual love and concord?
2849	for how can this bird give us any true information concerning our march, who could not foresee how to save himself?
2849	foreigners, or those of that country?
2849	how came that unreasonable dread upon him of judgments that were not to happen in his lifetime?
2849	nay, how came he not to contradict the king in his desire to see the gods immediately?
2849	nay, how came the king not to comply with the prophet?
2849	or what can we take out of other people''s laws that will exceed it?
2849	or what worse thing could he suffer, out of the fear of which he made haste to kill himself?
2849	what is more just than submission to laws?
14764	If they are sent to Poland''to work'',''the Archbishop asked, why are women, children and aged people also sent?
14764	Who is flooding the nation with anti- Semitic literature, and why? 14764 Would you agree that we save their children?
14764	''Would you like to go with this uncle and auntie?''
14764	13, and in Luther''s"Von weltlicher Obrigkeit wie weit man ihr Gehorsam schuldig ist"1523?
14764	2 What gave them the right to speak on my behalf?
14764	3, Jerusalem, 1958); Philip Friedman, Was there"another Germany"during the Nazi Period?
14764	491 The following books were published:"Judennot und Christenglaube"( Zurich, 1943);"Soll ich meines Bruders Huter sein?"
14764	63 J.J. Buskes, Waar stond de Kerk?
14764	< 231> Do we seriously mean them to be our confession of faith?
14764	< 308> BUSKES, J.J. Waar stond de Kerk?
14764	< 46> In short, that they are known for their adherence to the principles of freedom of conscience?
14764	And what should we say of their tormentors?
14764	But can we escape blame if, having it in our power to do something to save the victims, we fail to take the necessary action, and to take it swiftly?"
14764	But were these protests implemented by deeds?
14764	Can our authorities do anything to save them?
14764	Can we Swiss suppose that we are immune against such frenzy?
14764	Can we bear this, without wanting to help them to the best of our ability?
14764	Did not Isaiah welcome the day when all nations would flow unto the mountain of the Lord?
14764	Did the protests create a new, perhaps even a revolutionary non- conformist stand of the Church over against political power?
14764	Did they endanger their personal safety to rescue their fellow- Jews and display a deeper sense of responsibility towards them than the Church?
14764	Do we dare uphold it, as our Norwegian brethren have done, even if our faith should be tried as gold is tried in fire?
14764	Eckert und E.L. Ehrlich,"Judenhass- Schuld der Christen?
14764	H.C. Touw, the historian of the resistance of the DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, asked the questions:"Did the Synod take the right decision?
14764	Hogyan tortent?
14764	J.J. Buskes, Waar stond de Kerk?
14764	J.J. Buskes:"Why did I let myself be seduced?
14764	Laval then asked:"What would you do with the children?"
14764	Marginal note:"Date?
14764	May we Bulgarians, who have longed so much for a fair and decent attitude towards ourselves, now forsake our strongest weapon?
14764	No people can tolerate the preponderance of an alien spirit without degenerating and being destroyed?
14764	Or did it succumb to a satanic temptation?
14764	Or should they go forward, without regard for the consequences that might arise for others?
14764	Or would you, if you were the Chief Rabbi, be prepared to denounce the anti- Christian measures publicly and unequivocally?"
14764	Perhaps this experience was necessary to awaken it out of a certain stupor?
14764	Should they give up the open protests so that this or that group of church- members might be saved?
14764	Soll ich mein Bruders Hueter sein?
14764	The King asked:''But what- what did you hear and from whom?''
14764	Therefore, why should the Assembly pass it?"
14764	They will enjoy the same treatment as the nearly hundred thousand Hungarian labourers employed abroad?..."
14764	To abandon this role is to betray our spiritual heritage, is''to lose our soul in order to gain the world?.
14764	Visser? t Hooft( Ed.
14764	Was it unfaithful to its Lord in order to save the lives of its own members?"
14764	Was there an''other Germany''during the Nazi Period?
14764	We tremble at the dragon''s teeth of hatred which are senselessly being sown... What harvest must grow from such seed?
14764	What can we do?
14764	What is being prepared for the Jews who have remained in Norway?
14764	Who finances these movements?
14764	Why did I not say:''Thus speaks the Lord''?
14764	Why has Franco, the Fascist dictator of Spain, been extolled?
14764	With what hesitation did they begin their resistance?
14764	Would it not be a great triumph for the spirit of tolerance, which is certainly a Protestant attribute?
14764	Would it not be disgraceful, even to let our lips suggest any reasons at all against offering such aid?"
14764	[ 93] Quite different, however, is the sharp verdict of Presser:"And the Churches( in the Netherlands)?
14764	page 191 425 Literally:"bake your head"page 192 426 Solomon Samuel Mashiach in his article"Who saved us?
4732	How shall I do such great wrong and sin against God?
4732	If your sins are as scarlet, how should they be reckoned white as snow? 4732 Is it thou, O troubler of Israel?"
4732	Thou wilt build a house FOR ME? 4732 What is youth?
4732	Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? 4732 Woe to them who long for the day of the Lord!--What to you is the day of the Lord,?
4732	), what conscientious man can attach any weight to the opposite assertion of the Talmud?
4732	):"Shall I come before Him with burnt- offerings with calves of a year old?
4732	1- 9 go back before chap x. and join on to vi.-ix.?
4732	10), if no mention is made of his wrestling with El, which was the occasion of his change of name?
4732	11, Y+R for Y+RP?
4732	13), which apprehends the antithesis thus:"THOU wilt build a house for me?
4732	13:) OUTOI) EUXONTAI UEIN( EKATOMBAS TOIS QEOIS KAI XRWNTAI TOIS( IEREIOIS PROS) EUWXIAN.
4732	14 are even called officers of the host as in 2Kings xi 15, after their soldiers have been taken from them or metamorphosed?
4732	14)?
4732	1:"and Jehovah spake to him, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him?"
4732	29?
4732	2:) EN( HLLLA| TI LEGEI) H GRAFH i.e., How stands it written in the section relating to Elijah?
4732	2Maccabees and a multitude of other compositions have also made use of"sources,"but how does this enhance the value of their statements?
4732	30(?
4732	4,"Remember ye the torah of Moses my servant;"but where shall we look for any second expression of this nature?
4732	8?
4732	xxvi.
4732	?> CHAPTER X.
4732	A period from which no monuments are preserved to us?
4732	Above all, how could the scribes hope to retain their importance if temple and synagogue were cast into the shade by politics and clash of arms?
4732	And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?
4732	And finally as for the reference to Ezekiel(?
4732	And for what reason?
4732	And what could be the sense of representing Adam and Eve as so intent to know what was sin and what was virtue?
4732	And what of the ungodly?
4732	And when they ask: Why hath Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
4732	And which is the more original-- that the angels use a ladder as in Genesis, or that they have wings as in Isaiah?
4732	And why?
4732	Are we to suppose that Doeg, single- handed, could have made away with eighty- five men?
4732	Are we to take it then that he formed his own special private notion of the Torah?
4732	But a mist(?)
4732	But how did the difference arise?
4732	But in what manner was this done?
4732	But is it older or younger than Deuteronomy?
4732	But is the ark a guarantee of the existence of the tabernacle?
4732	But the most important question came at last to be, how individuals were to have part in the glory of the future?
4732	But the vengeance is to be executed on God, and in such a case who can be the avenger?
4732	But what is the inner relation of the one version to the other?
4732	But what is the state of the case as regards the_ pesah_?
4732	But what of the fact that a people of at least two millions has only 22,273 firstborn males, or say 50,000 firstborn of both sexes?
4732	But what would the objectors have?
4732	But where is this central authority in the period of the judges?
4732	But, even if Zerah were really a historical personage, of what avail would this be for the unhistorical connection?
4732	By the way is there anything in the similarity between Sene and Sinai?
4732	Can this have been the time when Noah''s family made up the whole population of the earth?
4732	Deuteronomy was really nothing more than a theory during the pre- exile period, but who would argue from this that it was not there at all?
4732	Did He in truth dwell behind the clouds, and did He not care about the doings of men?
4732	Did he find support in the Nebiim?
4732	Did ye offer unto me sacrifices and gifts in the wilderness the forty years, O house of Israel?"
4732	Do they expect to find positive statements of the non- existence of what had not yet come into being?
4732	Does this amount, in the circumstances, to a proof that such traits were derived from that source?
4732	Even critical analysis?
4732	For what reason does Chronicles stand in the canon at all, if not in order to teach us this?
4732	God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, and what was I able to do in comparison of you?"
4732	Had the Levites a military organisation, and, divided into three companies, did they change places every week in the temple service?
4732	Hagar called the name of Jehovah who spoke with her, El Roi( God of Seeing), for she said,"Have I seen God, and am I kept in life after my seeing?"
4732	Have we anything like the true history of Joseph in the Priestly Code?
4732	Have ye not cast out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests after the manner of the Gentiles?
4732	He can not allow anything to happen without Levites; and was the ark of the covenant to be fetched to Jerusalem without them?
4732	He is a second Moses?
4732	How are we to regard this fact?
4732	How can we explain this preponderance of priests over Levites, which is still surprising even if the individual figures are not to be taken as exact?
4732	How does it manage that?
4732	How in that case would it have been possible for him to make himself understood by the people, or to exercise influence over them?
4732	How much more must this be the case with narrators whose express business is with the tradition?
4732	How was it possible that Jehoiada should waive his divine right and suffer such a sacrilegious invasion of sacred privileges?
4732	How was it possible that in spite of this his rule had no continuance?
4732	How was it with the martyrs who had died in the expectation of the kingdom of God, before it came?
4732	How would the colourless God of abstraction fare in such a situation?
4732	If men do their part, how can Jehovah fail to do His?
4732	If the question, Whereon did Jehovah''s relation to Israel ultimately rest?
4732	If they are red like crimson, how should they be as wool?
4732	If we are to explain the_ omissions_ by reference to the"author''s plan,"why may we not apply the same principle to the_ additions_?
4732	In fact, the narrator speaks of a permanent house at Shiloh with doors and doorposts; that possibly may be an anachronism/1/( yet why?)
4732	Into the genealogy a wonderful account of the slaying of the children of Ephraim by the men of Gath( 1Samuel iv.?)
4732	Is it a humiliating thing that Israel should owe its freedom to a Persian?
4732	Is it supposes that the tabernacle tolerates other sanctuaries besides itself?
4732	Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
4732	Is the Law the starting- point for the history of ancient Israel or for that of Judaism?
4732	Is the Lord pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
4732	It was not removed from the earth after the fall; it is there still, else whence the need of cherubs to guard the access to it?
4732	Must not some regard in fairness be paid to the ensemble of the question?
4732	Nay, is it not rather a proof of the world- wide sway of the God of Jacob that He should thus summon His instruments from the ends of the earth?
4732	Now it is admitted that the three constituent elements are separated from each other by wide intervals; the question then arises, In what order?
4732	Only in< 2Kings?> xviii.
4732	Or was Samuel in conspiracy with the priests against Saul?
4732	Out of mere delight in Levitical pomp and high solemnities?
4732	Perhaps because now the Priestly Code has suddenly awakened to life after its long trance, and become the inspiration of Ezekiel?
4732	Serug is the name of a district which borders Haran on the North; how can the son of Serug all at once leap back to Ur Casdim?
4732	Shall we suppose that they all of them forget this subject by mere accident, or that they conspired to ignore it?
4732	Should we ask,_ how_ were things then?
4732	Surely not the false gods which he has destroyed?
4732	The prophet Elijah, always on the spot at the right moment, hurled the word at him,"Hast thou killed and also taken possession?
4732	The question is, which of the two writings stands nearest to the starting- point?
4732	The site of Sinai(= Horeb?)
4732	Then is the Torah to die with him, and truth itself to succumb to falsehood, to heathenism?
4732	There are no directions about the_ nervus ischiadicus_<** sciatic nerve??
4732	There are no directions about the_ nervus ischiadicus_<** sciatic nerve??
4732	Thus it is that the prophets are able to ask whether then Jehovah has commanded His people to tax their energies with such exertions?
4732	To the Chronicler the story so told is quite incomprehensible; what does he make of it?
4732	To what purpose( it was asked) all this religious strictness, which led to so much that was unpleasant?
4732	Was he the man in whom the Messianic prophecies had found their fulfilment?
4732	Was it such a difficult matter to find out forty definite stations in the wilderness for the forty years of the wanderings?
4732	Was there any other quarter in which help could yet be sought?
4732	Was there then, apart from this, strictly speaking, no material difference?
4732	We might draw conclusions with regard to the body from the head: but what sort of an idea can we form of the position of Samuel?
4732	Were the wicked right in saying that there was no God, i.e., that He did not rule and judge on earth?
4732	Were these then the Messianic times which, it had been foretold, were to dawn at the close of their captivity?
4732	Were they to escape from wrath because they died before the day of judgment?
4732	What can have become, in the meantime, of the golden altar of incense?
4732	What could the assertion mean that God would have no one but Himself know the difference between good and evil, and would deny to man this knowledge?
4732	What did they mean?
4732	What does Riehm mean by high antiquity?
4732	What follows from this for the question before us?
4732	What great genius was needed to transform the temple into a portable tent?
4732	What indeed will ye do in the time of the solemn assembly and in the day of the feast of Jehovah?
4732	What is the knowledge of good and evil?
4732	What plan was to be taken, what materials to be used for such a building as the times allowed?
4732	What power could then have been able in those days, when every man did what was right in his own eyes, to compel the individual to pay?
4732	What sort of creative power is that which brings forth nothing but numbers and names?
4732	What then are we to infer from this as to the historical place of the Priestly Code, if it be judged necessary to assign it such a place at all?
4732	What then does Ewald say to the narratives of Daniel or Jonah?
4732	What then?
4732	What will ye do in the day of festival and in the day of the feast of the Lord?
4732	Whence this concentration of all Israel into one great congregation[ QHL,( DH], without its like anywhere else in the Old Testament?
4732	Whence this sudden change?
4732	Where do they ever lean on any other authority than the truth of what they say; where do they rest on any other foundation than their own certainty?
4732	Where is the Mosaic altar of burnt- offering?
4732	Where is the whole wilderness- legislation as given from the tabernacle?
4732	Who else than Jehovah could have thus sent Cyrus?
4732	Why all this zeal for Jehovah, who refused to be mollified by it?
4732	Why does he limit his attention to the prophetic literature?
4732	Why not until now?
4732	Why the two altars and the two stories of their inauguration, both tracing their origin to the patron of Ophra?
4732	Why then did not Jehoiada make use of his own guard, the myriads of Levites who were at his command?
4732	Why, for example, are there none of them in the mass of laws of the middle books of the Hexateuch?
4732	Why?
4732	Will ye save him?
4732	[.1?]
4732	and not only so, but even after the ordinances relating to the adornment of the priests, and the inauguration of the divine service?
4732	and where be all His miracles, of which our fathers told us?
4732	and xxxii.?
4732	m(yl q+n ii.19?
4732	seq.?
4732	so that whosoever cometh to fill his hands with a young bullock and seven rams, even he may become a priest for the false gods?
4732	vanquished Goliath the giant, the shaft of whose spear was as thick as a weaver''s beam?
4732	was the Law to be even a second time broken under the pious king David?
4732	what was exactly the nature of the theocratic constitution?
4732	why thus separated from the other furnishings of the inner sanctuary?