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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt:...as we enjoy, and such indeed as was common among the Jews in Jesus' time and in earlier ages. Jesus, by His views here uttered about divorce, and by enrolling women among His disciples, and giving them tasks to perform and a dignity of character to maintain, and by the tender respect He showed towards them, brought about a revolution in the treatment of woman throughout the world. The great saying of St Paul (1 Cor. vi. 19), that men's bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost, and that any connection other than marriage defiles that temple, added further sanctity to the marriage tie, and therefore to the respect in which women were held. Marriage was the only institution existing in His time to which Jesus ever referred in His words: in all other cases His words apply to principles. LESSON VI. The Sermon On The Mount--St Matt. v. 33-48. ON THE LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBOURS AND OF OUR ENEMIES. 33-37. Oaths. 33. 4iriopKijo-cis.--This refers to the Third Commandment, Exod. xx. 7; and to Lev. xix. 12, "Ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God;" and Deut. xxiii. 21. The Pharisees seem to have held that an oath was not binding unless the name of God directly occurred in it, taking the passages from the Old Testament so literally as practically to add, "and whatsoever thou shalt swear not to the Lord may be transgressed." Cf. xxiii. 16. In what follows, Jesus rests every oath on God, whether His name occurs or not, thus condemning all frivolous swearing by anything which could save men from taking God's name in vain. It appears that the Jews were much given to idle swearing--cf. Matt. xxvi. 74, where Peter, after the manner of a Galilean fisherman, heaps curses and imprecations on himself if he did not speak...