He will be a true nation,
civilized, ordered, loyal and united, for God is teaching him.
Who can resist such a nation as that? 'God has brought him out of
Egypt. He has the strength of an unicorn.' 'I shall see him,' he
says, 'but not now; I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall
come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel,
and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of
Sheth.' And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and
said, 'Amalek was the first of the nation; but his latter end shall
be that he perish for ever.' And he looked on the Kenites, and took
up his parable, and said, 'Strong is thy dwelling-place, and thou
puttest thy nest in a rock. Nevertheless, the Kenite shall be
wasted, till Asshur shall carry thee away captive.' 'Alas, who
shall live when God doeth this!'
And then, beyond all, after all the Canaanites and other Syrian
races have been destroyed, he sees, dimly and afar off, another
destruction still.
In his home in the far east the fame of the ships of Chittim has
reached him; the fame of the new people, the sea-roving heroes of
the Greeks, of whom old Homer sang; the handsomest, cunningest, most
daring of mankind, who are spreading their little trading colonies
along all the isles and shores, as we now are spreading ours over
the world.
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