[5] Wisd. xi. 15; xiii, xiv, xv. St. Paul's debt to the Book of Wisdom is apparent (1) in the kinds of idols he mentions; (2) in the way in which the thought of idolatry leads on to that of uncleanness and sexual immorality; and (3) in the idea of retribution by the natural law of results. [6] 1 Thess. ii. 16. [7] Butler's _Analogy_, part i. ch. 2. [8] _Pirqé Aboth_, iv. 2 (cited by S. and H.). [9] S. and H. p. 49. [10] He implies, as Dr. Farrar points out, 1 Cor. v. 9-10, that pure society did not exist in Corinth. [11] See my _Ephesians_, pp. 91, 92, 255. [12] Rom. ii. 13-15. [13] Rom. ii. 26. [14] See also app. note E on physical science and the fall. [15] Cf. F. B. Jevons, _Introd. to the Hist. of Religion_ (Methuen), pp. 394, 395: 'Everywhere it is the many who lapse: the few who hold right on. The progressive peoples of the earth are in a minority.' 'Though evolution is universal, progress is exceptional.' [16] Cf. Huxley, _Evolution and Ethics_ (Romanes Lecture, 1893, Macmillan), p. 36: 'The theory of evolution encourages no millennial anticipations. If, for millions of years, our globe has taken the upward road, yet, some time, the summit will be reached, and the downward route will be commenced.' [17] The allusion is to (1) Jevons (_op. cit._ cap. xxv), who seems to think some 'amorphous' form of monotheism may very probably lie behind totemism. He strongly repudiates the notion that the lower form is necessarily the older. (2) Andrew Lang, _Making of Religion_ (Longmans, 1898), chaps. ix and xv. Cp. also Orr's _Christian view of God and the World_ (Elliot, 1893), pp. 212 ff., and notes E, F, G. {87} DIVISION I. § 2. CHAPTER II. 1-29. _Judgement on the Jews._