Article November 23, 1899 Issue

A Jealous God

BY C. M. RICKARD.

By the light that Christian Science turns upon the Scriptures, we can understand much that was once far from being clear or satisfactory to the searcher after Truth.

In the second commandment, Moses, one of God's interpreters to mankind, undoubtedly used the verb translated jealous with a profounder sense of the term chosen than the English word is ordinarily used to express. Jealous, applied in its lower meaning to a phase of mortal belief, is a human passion, and is not applicable to the Supreme Being. Used in its higher signification, it implies, even in the English tongue, a careful presentation of characteristics; a self-appointed guardianship over intrinsic and inalienable rights, enforcing their recognition. Making the application of the word impersonal, we can therefore accurately define it, as

A quality of an exact Principle, which denies and casts out every claim to equal or even comparative power with itself.

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