"If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth
thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass,
whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which
thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto
the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your
God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and
fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and ye shall
serve Him, and cleave unto Him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of
dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away
from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt and
redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way
which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in."[198]
The position of Rabbi Wise cannot be defended by trying to identify this
passage with the one in Leviticus. The law in Deuteronomy has reference
to that form of blasphemy which is nearly identical with idolatry, that
is, seducing the people from their allegiance to Jehovah, and inducing
them to go off after strange gods. The law in Leviticus applies
peculiarly to profane epithets and to curses hurled at Jehovah Himself.
Again, Rabbi Wise ridicules the notion that Caiaphas and the Sanhedrists
attempted to twist the use of the words "Son of God" into a crime. He is
right when, quoting Deuteronomy xiv. 1, he says that "every Israelite
had a perfect right to call himself a son of God." But here again the
eminent theologian has stopped short of the entire truth. It is not at
all probable that he would have contended that "every Israelite had a
perfect right to call himself the son of God" in the sense of being
equal with God Himself. Should reply be made that such would be an
unwarranted construction of Christ's confession that he was "the Christ,
the Son of God," then the opinion of Salvador would be again invoked. In
a note to the "Jugement de Jesus," he says: "I repeat that the
expression 'Son of God' includes here the idea of God Himself."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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