Excerpt from Religion in a World at War
Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight. Psalm 144:1.
The Old Testament is filled with they alarm of war. Its books of history are occupied with accounts of campaigns, successful and unsuccessful. Its books of prophecy are composed of the sermons which men preached who took their texts from the bulletins of Assyrian and Chaldean invasion, from the plots of Egyptian conspirators, from the tragedies of deportation. When Ulfilas, the apostle of the Goths, translated the Bible into the language of his people, he omitted the books of Samuel and Kings, because there is so much fighting in them. He feared that his belligerent countrymen would find these books more interesting than the Sermon on the Mount.
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