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Excerpt from The Hebrew Prophets for English Readers, Vol. 4 of 4: In the Language of the Revised Version of the English Bible, Printed in Their Poetical Form, With Headings and Brief Annotation
There were many causes for this falling off in prophetic power. First among them we must place the fact that the earlier prophets, aided by the chastening in?uence of the Exile, had, to a large extent, done their work. There was no longer the gross idolatrous worship, with its licentious orgies and often cruel rites, to contend against. Again, social and political conditions had changed. Israel is no longer a kingdom, but a colony. The community is poor and feeble, cut off from all the habits and prestige of their past, and beginning the rudiments of life again in hard struggle with nature and hostile tribes.'2 There was no longer a body of plutocrats grinding the face of the poor, nor a more or less despotic king, from whose selfishness and injustice an appeal might be made to the ideal anointed one, the Messiah that was to come.3 Outwardly there was no great foreign invader, in whom the prophets could foresee the instrument of Divine vengeance. It is true that the people were continually harassed by petty neighbours.
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