Word: judea
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...Judea and Galilee...
When Jesus proposed to go into Judea, said Dr. Moxom, all the apostles protested save one, Thomas, who is often called the doubter. He was the one to say it was better to go, that they might die with Christ. Yet Thomas, a truehearted and faithful follower of Jesus, often seems to have doubted. But sincere doubt is never a crime. The world has moved forward through doubters. When the heart is sincere, the logic of conscience becomes at last the logic of understanding...
...effect of this educational spirit in modern times is all towards universality. We learn to look at Christianity, not as something which happened long ago in Judea, but as a constantly growing influence which is receiving its life from the best materials in every country...
Messiah who should lead Judea on to the position that was then held by Rome. The Jews thoroughly hated Rome and had a firm conviction that their Messiah would be a king of war to lift them above their rival. It was into this world of violent passion that the calm character of Christ came, Dr. Herford advised a careful study of this interesting history, recommending Haustath's New Testament Times...
...contemporaries. The picture of the future is such as is needed by the present. Isaiah and Jeremiah present the gloomy prospect of captivity in Assyria and Babylon, while a later prophet, just before the exile period closes, points in glowing terms the glories of the return to Judea. The prophet was in an important sense, a man of his time, and he always appeared in connection with great national epochs which demanded his presence. As men of their times, occupying a definite place in the history of the world, the prophets are elucidated by every investigation that sheds light...