the silver or the gold.

All these useful and beautiful things helped to win over sensible
people among the Jews to look with favor on their new neighbors. And
when Jewish travelers found themselves stopping at new and more
comfortable inns managed by Greek innkeepers, and went to bathe in the
public baths which were erected in the larger cities by the Greek
authorities, they were sure to spread the idea that even Jews might
learn something from the Greeks.

BROAD-MINDED PATRIOTS AMONG THE JEWS

Fortunately there were some among the Jews who could appreciate the
good and beautiful things in Greek civilization without being disloyal
to their own race and their own religion; and, on the other hand,
could be proud of the great teachings of the prophets without hating
and despising men of other races. They had learned well the lesson of
that great prophet whom we call the Second Isaiah, that Jehovah chose
Israel, not as his special "pet" or favorite, but as his servant to
teach all nations about the true God and his righteous rule. Such men
realized that the Greeks and Egyptians and other foreigners were
Jehovah's children like themselves, and that instead of despising them
they ought to make friends with them and try to teach them the
religion of Jehovah.

=Jewish religious books written for Greeks.=--It was by men of this
broad spirit that a number of books were written for the sake of
winning Greeks to the Jewish religion. These books were written in the
Greek language and explained to Greek readers the law of Moses and the
teachings of the prophets. Among the most important of these books was
the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. This translation
was made, indeed, chiefly for the benefit of Jews living in Greek
countries who had forgotten the old Hebrew tongue. But the translators
also had in mind the great non-Jewish Greek world.

And the new translation, sometimes called the Septuagint (that is, the
book of the seventy translators who are said to have worked on it),
found its way into the hands of many a Greek reader who learned from
it for the first time something about the religion of Jehovah.

The author of the story of Jonah, in the Bible, was another Jew of
this broad spirit. He had traveled in Egypt. He had seen the vices and
sins of the heathen. And he had tried to tell them of the just and
merciful laws of the one God of all the world, Jehovah. Many of his
fellow Jews criticised him fo