_The facts_ of the case, in the meantime, sorely perplex the truth-loving writer. "For it is undeniable that, in the time of our Lord, the Sadducees had lost all depth of spiritual feeling, whilst the Pharisees had succeeded in converting the Mosaic system into a mischievous idolatry of forms." (p. 10.) "In short, the Jewish nation had lost very much when John the Baptist came." (p. 11.) The hopelessly corrupt moral state of the youthful Colossus, described with such sickening force and power by the great Apostle in the first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, cannot have occurred to Dr. Temple's remembrance, for he says nothing about it. Certain withering denunciations of "a wicked and adulterous generation[24];"--of "adulterers and adulteresses[25];"--"serpents," a "generation of vipers," which should hardly "escape the damnation of Hell[26];"--ought to have reached him with a reproachful echo; but he is silent about them all. Still less would it have suited the amiable allegorizer to state that _just midway_ in the educational process, his Colossal Youth, "as if" the sins of Samaria and of Sodom "were a very little thing," "_was corrupted more than they in all his ways_. As I live, saith the LORD GOD," (apostrophizing Dr. Temple's Colossal Youth, in allusion to his character and conduct in the middle of his infant career,) "_Sodom_ thy sister _hath not done as thou_ hast done: ... _neither hath Samaria committed half thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they_.... Bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed _more abominable than they_. They are more righteous than thou[27]!" "Ah sinful nation, laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters!... From the sole of the foot even unto the head,"--[these words, remember, are addressed to the Colossal Infant just _midway_ in his career; and Heaven and Earth are called upon to give ear, "for the LORD hath spoken!" ... From the sole to the crown,] "there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores.... Your hands are full of blood[28]!" ... About all this hideous retrospect of what was going on at school, Dr. Temple is silent. In like manner, the great fact that our REDEEMER came to republish His own two primæval ordinances,--the spiritual observance of the Sabbath and the sanctity of Marriage,--is quietly ignored. A youth utterly degraded by sensuality[29], and blinded by unbelief[30], is a terrible picture truly. Dr. Temple therefore boldly gives the lie direct to History, sacred and profane; and insists that "side by side with freedom from idolatry, _there had grown up in the Jewish mind a chaster morality than was to be found elsewhere in the world_:" (p. 12:) that "_in chastity the Hebrews stood alone_; and this virtue, which had grown up with them from their earliest days (!!!) _was still in the vigour of fresh life when they were commissioned to give the Gospel to the nations_." (p. 13.)