Category: The Four Hundred Silent Years
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The Four Hundred Silent Years, by H A Ironside. Chapter Five, The Literature of the Jews
When one meditates on the troublous times we have briefly gone over in the foregoing pages, it is surprising what an amount of literature has come down to our times from a people so harassed and distressed. We have already seen that the canon of Scripture was closed very shortly…
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The Four Hundred Silent Years, by H A Ironside. Chapter Four, The Edomite Ascendancy
We closed our last chapter with Hyrcanus still occupying the office of high-priest, under the patronage, though really the authority, of Antipater, and both subject to Scipio. Antigonus alone remained of the adult Asmonean princes, and he was still in captivity. We now hasten on to the events of the…
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The Four Hundred Silent Years, by H A Ironside. Chapter Three, To the End of the Asmonean Dynasty
John Hyrcanus, son of Simon, succeeded to the place and honor of his father, in accordance with the decision of the great council. His first act was to attempt the relief of his mother, who was held captive by her unworthy son-in-law Ptolemy. In this he was unsuccessful. The aged…
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The Four Hundred Silent Years, by H A Ironside. Chapter Two, The Days of the Maccabees
For a long time there had been two main parties striving for the domination in Judea. One, and that the weaker company, clinging tenaciously to the law and its observance, though continually adding to it, and becoming more and more legal. These eventually became known as the Pharisees (from a…
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The Four Hundred Silent Years, by H A Ironside. Preface, and Chapter One, The Jews Under Priestly Rule
Preface Some time ago I endeavored, though with no claim to originality of treatment, to draw practical lessons for the separated people of God from the captivity and post-captivity books of the Old Testament. At the suggestion of the publishers I have now sought to trace the history to the…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 