“there is not a book upon earth in which the principle of intentional selection is more evident to a careful observer.”8 The special and distinctive position enjoyed by the Jew was a main feature of the economy then about to close. “There is no difference”9 is a canon of Christian doctrine. Men talk of the Divine history of the human race, but there is no such history. The Old Testament is the Divine history of the family of Abraham. The call of Abraham was chronologically the central point between