Excerpt from Religion in a World at War The modern Hebrew is for the most part a peaceable person; sometimes suffering at the hands Of semi-barbarous Christian neighbours, but rarely retaliating. The an cient Hebrew was a fierce and eager soldier. With his sword and with his bow he had won the land which he inhabited, and he had defended his possession in a thousand battles. According to his theology, the Lord himself was a man of war. The saints in his calendar wore helmets instead of ha loes, and showed that the grace of God was in them by the might with which they smote their enemies. Saint Abraham took the three hundred and eighteen men who com posed his body-guard and fell upon the hosts of the allied kings of the east. Saint Moses, meekest of men, began his career of social reconstruction by killing an Egyptian over seer. Saint Samuel, though properly a prophet rather than a warrior, hewed King Agag in pieces before the Lord, and wiped his bloody axe confident that in him God was well pleased. The time would fail me. 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.