A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
History passes the final judgment.
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.
For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.
Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.
World history is a court of judgment.