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Romans 2:17-20 : But if thou bearest the name of Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God, and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, and art con-fident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, a corrector of the fool-ish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. It is not known when the name "Jew" was first used. After the ten tribes followed Jeroboam in the revolt against Rehoboam, the two remaining tribes--Judah and Benjamin--became known as the kingdom of Judah, because Judah was so much more powerful than the tribe of Benjamin. Later they became known as "Jews," the name being derived from "Judah." When the kingdom of Judah was about to be carried into captivity, the name was used a few times in the book of Jeremiah. During the captivity and thereafter "Jew" became the com-mon name of all the people. They were proud of the name "Jew" and of what, in their estimation, the name stood for. And they gloried in God and not in idols. They were confident that they were able to teach all who foolishly worshiped idols. Their privileges, their belief in the one God, and their knowledge of his will, should have made them humble and ashamed that they had made such poor use of their privileges and blessings; but, instead of that, they were boast-ful, and they maintained an air of superiority over all other people. And so every blessing has its corre-sponding danger. Is there not danger that we fall in-to a similar state of mind? We have the Bible, abhor creeds, glory in the name we wear, and feel able to toach the whole world. Are we not inclined to be proud and arrogant? Should we not rather feel hum-ble and ashamed that we have not made better use of what we have?

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