Tym bardziej przed tym zimnych barwach koutras pożycza prosi się them credit for! Judges 11 F B Meyer Our Daily Homily And Jephthah sent messengers unto the of the children of Ammon. Jephthah's procedure was admirable his quiet expostulation, before resorting to force the defence of home and country against the aggression of Amalek. It was quite clear that Ammon had no right to the lands of which at God's command, had dispossessed the Amorites. Thou doest me wrong to war against me. But before repelling the invasion, Jephthah did his best to show the unreasonableness of Ammon's pretext. Thus our Lord expostulated with the servant that smote Him. If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou Me? It is this way that we are to act still. If thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. the Masters judgment, the wrong-doer injured himself much more than any one and therefore words of expostulation were desirable to stay him from his own destruction. There is no need to bribe God's help, as Jephthah did, by his rash promise. He give gladly and freely out of his own heart of the help and deliverance we need, if only our cause is rightly ordered before Him. Who delivered, and doth deliver; He yet deliver When we are right with our fellow-men, we can confidently count on God's almighty helpfulness. Judges 11 And the of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, Because took away land when they came up from Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and the therefore, return them peaceably now. Bush Because took away, &c. One who seeks a pretext for a quarrel never be at a loss to find one; yet it speaks much favor of the general peaceableness and inoffensiveness of towards their neighbors, that their enemies, when intent upon hostilities against them, are obliged to look three hundred years back for a specious occasion. If the Ammonites had been conscious of a valid claim, their demand should have been published before invading But we have no intimation of this, and the claim now preferred was evidently trumped up to serve the present occasion, as affording a colorable pretence of justice the invasion; showing that they who are destitute of conscience and honesty, are often very unwilling to appear Jephthah, however, what follows, stripped their conduct of its specious disguise, and showed conclusively how false and arrogant were their pretensions. land. Speaking the name both of the children of Ammon and Moab, over whom unitedly he seems, at this time, to have reigned as Daniel Block The response of the of the sons Ammon to Jephthah's first approach is curt and to the point. By invading the land of Gilead he has reclaimed land the Israelites had taken away from him. The 's historical sense is both remarkable and skewed. On the one hand, he was aware of 's origins Egypt and their earlier migration to the land of Canaan. On the other hand, he accused them of injustice against him, inasmuch as they had robbed him of the territory between the Arnon and Jabbok tributaries of the But this is patently false. The Ammonites had never occupied this land. Even the new territorial claims are understandable because the Ammonite heartland consisted of amorphous region without distinct geographic boundaries between the desert to the east and the hills of Gilead the west. The present claims arise not only from a for more land but also out of a need for