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Exodus 35

Clinging to a Counterfeit Cross
Verses 1-35

Exodus 35:1

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as if they were Divine commandments.

—Kant.

References.—XXXV:21.—A. Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture— Exodus 35:31

Religion devotes the artist, hand and mind, to the service of the gods; superstition makes him the slave of ecclesiastical pride, and forbids his work altogether, in terror or disdain.

—Ruskin, On the Old Road (I.).

Exodus 35:34

The art which scorns all point of contact with morals, which denies all responsibility as a teacher, and knows no law but itself—nay, which evokes from the artist no real self-restraint, no recognition of the consecrating power of his gift, is a sterile art which has missed its purpose.

—Morris Joseph, The Ideal in Judaism, p180.

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