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Excerpt from Types of Jewish-Palestinian Piety From 70 B.C.E. To 70 C. E: The Ancient Pious Men Chapter III. Ii'he pious men in the Psalms of Solomon. Their faith in God, fear and love of Him, prayers, His particular providence, temptation by want and suffering, poverty and hunger, modesty and gratefulness; recognition of God's justice in the terrible catastrophe of Jerusalem under Pompey, justification of God in the sufferings of the pious, their unknown sins, submission to visitation; search of heart and home for unrighteous deeds, confession of sin, repentance in humiliation and fasts; sins of the noble priests and their punish ment God purges sins by chastisement humbly accepted by the pious, and forgives in grace; the pious faithfully obey His commandments, practise righteousness; meaning of righteousness in Ezek. 18, LXX, Philo, Josephus, nt., curse by pious, interpretation of God's justice no reference to sacrifices; the Messianic King, his holiness, Israel not favoured by God, no reward for piety expected, free will, purging of Jerusalem of enemies by Messiah; comparison of the pious in the Psalms of Solomon with those in rabbinic literature, pp. 128 - 195. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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