Old Shylock's famous remark has had a recent fulfillment. The Outlook for August 20 contains a review of a new "History of the People of Israel," by the infidel Professor Cornill, in which a moral judgment of the world entertained for many centuries past is reversed. The author of the book of Kings pronounces on Ahab, king of Israel, this judgment: "Ahab did yet more to provoke Jehovah the God of Israel to anger, than all the kings of Israel that were before him." This judgment has been approved by that of every thoughtful reader of the Book of Kings from that day to this, with the exception of Professor Cornill. This wise writer of a history of Israel pronounces Ahab "a noble and large-hearted king." When men's minds become thoroughly perverted with respect to the evidences in favor of the Bible, it is not surprising that their judgments in morals become perverted likewise. The next thing we hear, some of the crazy critics will be pronouncing Judas Iscariot a noble and large-hearted man.

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