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...provide us sweet honey; we leave him to fight with his own shadow, and close this observation with the words of the divine son of Amos The "son of Amos" refers to the Hebrew prophet Isaiah (Jesaia), whose father was Amoz., which he—his chest expanded and filled with the Divinity—pours out against Unbelief in his 41st Prophetic Song, using the words of God himself:

Keep silence before me, O Islands, and let the Peoples renew their strength: let them draw near, then let them speak: let us approach the judgment together.

Who has raised up that Righteous man Abraham from the east? original: "opgang," literally the rising of the sun, referring to the East. called him to his foot? given the Heathens In this context, "Heathens" refers to the various pagan nations or Gentiles surrounding the early Israelites. before his face, and made him rule over Kings? has given them to his sword as dust, and to his bow as driven stubble?

That he pursued them, and passed through in peace, by a path that he had not gone with his feet? Who has wrought this, etc.: I, the Lord, who am the first, and with the last, I am the same, etc.

But although this History is surrounded by a cloud of holy and unholy witnesses The author refers to "holy" (biblical) and "unholy" (secular or pagan) historians as witnesses to the life of Abraham.; experience has nonetheless taught that the eyes of the shrewdest and most accurate investigators of the holy ori-