The Oedipus Judaicus / [Sir William Drummond].

  • William Drummond of Logiealmond
Date:
1811
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Oedipus Judaicus / [Sir William Drummond]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    23/524 page 7
    continually changing his plans for the moral government of the world and while he is depicted as a material and local God, who dwelt on a box made of Shittim wood in the temple of Jerusalem;—they abide by the literal interpretation. They see no allegory in the first chapters of Genesis ; nor doubt, that far the greater portion of the human race is doomed to suffer eternal torments, because our first parents ate an apple, after having been tempted by a talking serpent. They find it quite simple, that the triune Jehovah should dine on veal cutlets at Abraham's table ; nor are they at all surprised, that the God of the universe should pay a visit to Ezekiel, in order to settle with the Prophet, whether he should bake his bread with human dung, or with cow's dung. In these examples the Christian readers of the Hebrew Scriptures understand no allegory.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3