Excerpt from The New Message in the Teaching of JesusEver. Draws from them, brings fresh life. The ebb brings new tasks, what the tide brought up, it collects, preserves, works up. In the place of production comes reproduc tion, the new is conserved, finally it be comes old, being long possessed, and the times gradually become ripe for the prophet, for the genius, who is to lift himself up and the times with him to a new development. Jesus descended from Israel's soil. One can hardly think too realistically of this, how much he was inwardly connected with the religious peculiarity of his people and their laws of development. He grew up under the in¿uence of the ancient, sacred authorities of his people, the Scripture, the cult, the entire religious order of life and mode of thinking. These in¿uences were especially strong about him. For according to its general nature the time of Jesus be longed on the whole to the more conserva tive and reproductive periods of Israel's his tory of religion. The synagogues were above all the places where the religious life of the Jews was moulded and fostered, in the synagogue, however, ruled the scribe and he was the keeper of tradition. No public.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.