Of this wonderful growth and moving revelation, it can be said, in a way deeper than the old typological and prophetic methods of study could understand, that Christ is the aim and the goal; not only Jesus of Nazareth with His unique Personality, but that still more transcendent mystery, the Christ within the heart, Christ the head of every man. If we have learned nothing else, surely we have learned this: that behind the hopes of mankind, behind their misty dreams, their gropings after truth, their struggles for righteousness, are the eternal thoughts of God; and although these may transcend their poor reflection in the mind of man, as the heavens the earth, yet this remains: that for every hope implanted, there is an answer beyond our expectation; for every desire Godward, the revelation of the Father-friend; for every ideal of the human heart, the Christ; and for every effort after human progress, the ever nearer coming of the Kingdom of God.
Abraham, emigration of, 23; historicity of, 36; religion of, 31, 34
Altars, erected anywhere, 98; construction of, 200
Animals, as tribal names, 39; clean and unclean, 40; worship of, 26, 39, 68, 124
Atonement, 102, 208; of Christ, 210, 211; Day of, 177, 178
Baal of Tyre, 94, 109, 125. See also under Melkart
Babylon, fall of, 185; Jews in, 169-174, 179, 185, 204
Babylonian epic of Creation, 205; influence of, 204-206
Blood, significance of, 26, 208; food of deity, 48
Canaan, influence of, 27, 83-86, 170; conquest of, 82, 86, 87; Jewish love for, 83; limitations of, 84
Canaanites, customs of, borrowed, 92, 98; origin of, 23, 24; religion of, 38, 92-95; sanctuaries of, 98, 158, 163; why not exterminated, 90; and Hebrews, 87
Choice of Israel, Jehovah's, 75; prophetic conception of, 156, 187
Christ the goal of Old Testament, 282. And see under Jesus
Conditions of life among Semites, 20; in time of Judges, 87; after exile, 196, 232; in time of Psalms, 226, 231, 232; reflected in Wisdom lit., 247; in Ecclesiastes, 259; in Messianic age, 273
Covenant at Sinai, 58, 65; prophetic conception of, 76, 157, 267
Creation, 186, 205; Babylonian legend of, 205
Customs retained with new significance, 39, 50, 176
David, character of, 119, 121, 229; influence of, 120; his kingdom, 88, 120; a poet, 119; his religious ideas, 121; his work, 120; and the Messiah, 270, 275