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|Feb 20, 2007
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|Jul 19, 2005
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|Jul 19, 2005
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|Li-Lin Ko
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|Li-Lin Ko
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|Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (12), Classifications (5), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to an illuminating ball, and more particularly to a ball embedded with multiple light emitting components that can be manually activated or automatically activated when the ball experiences vibration.
2. Related Art
Of all sports, ball games have long been the most popular, and include familiar forms for example, basketball, soccer, football and volleyball. Since current designs for these types of balls follow specific and standardized guidelines, the only room left for change seems limited to the material used and the surface patterns.
In addition to the formal sport competitions in which people enjoy these ball games, it is far more common for them to invite a few good friends to play a game or two together for recreation. However, their enjoyment is often limited by the dull and unexciting design of the conventional ball. To overcome this shortcoming, the present invention proposes a novel structure design of the ball, which will greatly enhance the pleasure of a recreational ball game.
An objective of the present invention is to increase the enjoyment of the ball game by providing an illuminating ball with multiple light emitting components, wherein the light emitting components can be manually activated, or automatically activated when the ball experiences vibration.
The present invention includes the following structural components:
an inflatable ball, constructed of multiple layers of material, with an embedding hole;
a power supply device, installed inside the ball through the embedding hole;
a switch, wired to the said power supply device, enabling the ball to be manually illuminated or automatically illuminated when the ball experiences vibration; and
multiple output wires, connected to the above-mentioned switch and multiple light emitting elements. These light emitting elements are distributed over the surface of the ball, and receive power from the above-mentioned power supply device for illumination.
The inside of the ball contains a rubber holder in which the power supply device and the switch are installed.
The above-mentioned switch is composed of a manually operated device and a vibration-triggered device; the user can either directly switch on or shut off the light emitting elements by using the manual mode, or he can switch to the vibration-sensitive mode, in which when the ball experiences vibration, the switch is automatically turned on and power transmits from the battery to the output wires to light up the ball. On the other hand, when the ball returns to the static status, the vibration-triggered switch is shut off. The power supply device described here allows the user to easily replace a used up battery with a new one.
Further advantages, features and details of the present invention will be elucidated on the basis of the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof, with reference to the annexed figures.
The present invention provides an illuminating ball (200) in which a power supply device (100) is embedded. The power supply device (100) connects to multiple light emitting elements (62) via wires, where the light emitting elements (62) are distributed in an exposed manner on an exterior periphery of the ball (200). In one aspect, when the ball (200) experiences vibration such as when bouncing, a vibration-triggered switch (50) connecting to the power supply device (100) can be automatically conducted, whereby these light emitting elements (62) are activated. The vibration-triggered switch can be automatically turned off if the ball (200) is in the static status. In another aspect, these light emitting elements (62) also can be manually activated regardless of the status of the ball (200).
An inflatable ball such as a basketball is basically composed of an inner bladder, a winding string layer forming around the bladder, an intermediate layer formed around the winding string layer and a cover layer attached over the intermediate layer. The illuminating device disclosed in the present invention can be applied to any kind of inflatable ball.
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The power supply device (100) retained in the rubber holder (10) comprises a battery holder (20), a battery (30) received in the battery holder (20) and a covering tube (40).
The battery holder (20) forms as a hollow column with an open top and a closed bottom. A bottom conductive plate (21) is secured on the inner bottom of the holder (20). A flange (24) is formed around the opening in the battery holder (20). Two gaps (25) are defined through the flange (24) and at opposed positions to separate the flange (24) into two semicircular segments. Two engaging notches (26) are defined on the flange (24) but not through it, wherein each notch (26) is adjacent to a respective one of the gaps (25). A first conductive pad (27) and a second conductive pad (28) are respectively formed on the inner wall of the two notches (26).
The battery (30) with an anode and a cathode is installed in the battery holder (20). The first end of the battery (30), for example the cathode, electrically contacts with the bottom conductive plate (21) of the battery holder (20). The second end of the battery (30), for example the anode, is for contacting with the covering tube (40) as discussed hereinafter.
The covering tube (40) is formed as a solid head portion and a sleeve (401) with a bottom opening (43) extending from the head portion. The battery (30) can be received in the hollow sleeve (401). An enlarged screw head (41) is integrally formed at one end of the head portion, where a slot (42) is defined on the screw head (41). A conducting spring (45) is mounted on the bottom surface of the head portion inside the sleeve (401) for contacting with the battery (30). A block (46) protrudes from the outer surface of the head portion and is electrically connected to the conducting spring (45). The electrical connection can be achieved by internal wires (not shown) or by metal conducting films attached on the outer surface of the covering tube (40).
When assembling the power supply device (100), the battery holder (20) is firstly installed into the rubber holder (10) and then the battery (30) is slid into the battery holder (20), whereby the anode of the battery (30) can contact with the bottom conductive plate (21). The covering tube (40) is inserted into the battery holder (20) to hold the battery (30), whereby the battery (30) can be received inside the sleeve (401) and its cathode is in contact with the conducting spring (45).
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The battery (30) in the power supply device (100) is replaceable if the power has been used up. A user can utilize hand tools or just his bare hands to do the job. Slightly pressing the screw head (41) inward into the battery holder (20), and slowly rotating the screw head (41) to a position where the conductive block (46) is in alignment with either the first or second gap (25). As the conducting spring (45) inside the covering tube (40) returns from the condensed status to the normal status, it releases forces that eject the covering tube (40) from the battery holder (20), enabling the user to easily remove the battery and replace it.
After a new battery has been put inside the battery holder (20), the covering tube (40) is inserted into the battery holder (20) by pressing and rotating the screw head (41) to the position where the block (46) is in alignment with either gap (25). When the block (46) enters the battery holder (20), further slightly rotating the screw head (41) can guide the block (46) to engage with the notch (26). The conducting spring (45) in the battery holder (20) enters into the condensed status and provides a counterforce against the bottom of the screw head (41) so that the block (46) can tightly abut the flange (24) to prevent the covering tube (40) from turning loose.
As described above, the present invention uses a simple power supply device (100) and light emitting elements (62) on a ball (200), so that the ball is illuminated when it experiences vibration. Compared with the conventional ball, the present invention greatly enhances the pleasure of a ball game. This new design has never been seen in similar fields of the art, thus fully meeting the patent requirements. This application is duly filed in accordance with patent regulations.
It is to be understood, however, that even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present invention have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and function of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only, and changes may be made in detail, especially in matters of shape, size, and arrangement of parts within the principles of the invention to the full extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.
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Skip to comments.School Bus Beating Caught on Tape (Black on white hate crime?)
Posted on 09/15/2009 6:02:48 AM PDT by mommya
"BELLEVILLE, IL (KTVI-FOX2now.com) - To call it a brutal beating is an understatement. A 17-year-old Belleville West High School student is attacked on his school bus twice in a matter of minutes and it is all on tape."
Sorry if I have not posted proplerly - I am not a frequent poster but I thought this was worthy.
This happened just this morning I believe - at the school where my husband graduated from and where my father-in-law taught for 33 years. (Actually this is a new building and location for Belleville West.)
Belleville is just a hop skip and jump east of East St. Louis.
It was a nice city - but it's rapidly turning into a hell hole.
I couldnt get the video to work, but let me guess. Cuz Obama won and its payback time and this aint America no mo. Blah, blah, blah.
mommya — it happened yesterday morning, I believe. Charges are being filed against the two who did the beating. I hope they get more than a slap on the wrist, but it happened in the Peoples Republic of Illinois, so who knows! ;-}
They call it "empowerment",
or "the 0bama effect".
Where and how do these kids learn this behavior? Disgusting.
Sig, it shows a white kid sitting in a seat on a school bus with a black kid and all the sudden the black kid just starts hammering the white kid. Then he gets pulled off and then another black kid jumps in and starts whaling on the white kid.
More about the incident here
Yesterday - thanks.
Still pretty quick for Belleville PD to get the tape out. I'm glad they didn't just bury it. Maybe there is still a chance for Belleville to save itself. I doubt it though.
From what I understand the police are looking into the "hate crime" charges, but I would not hold my breath since that would overturn the whole leftist anti-white racist demagoguery industry and send the American left into the ashbin of history.
Pure Racism.
Thanks AppyPappy.
Must be one of those cultural things,
decades and generations of teaching
children to hate whitey.
Can you say "Jeese Jackson" or "Al Sharpton"?
What we have running our Government. Case closed.
but I thought once 0bama was elected we would all forget about race...
I don't view life in that way - my little girl is bi-racial - but this is obviously HATE - and those students should be sent to jail!
Is this what anti-home schoolers call "socialization"?
Many who voted for 0bama in hopes of "racial absolution" are finding out they got ripped off,
and things are only going to get worse because of it.
oh how I agree! You are so right...
This is phuking bullshit!
I apologize for the language. This kind of stuff enrages me.
Seriously, if I were the parent, I don't know what I would do to these two feral humans.....
Where and how do these kids learn this behavior?
Watch any black comedian, you'll see!
The playing of the race card by the news media and every lefty who can get in front of a camera is part of the plan.
We may feel that the race card is over done and it no longer bothers us but poor, ignorant ghetto kids don't see it that way. They see that they finally have a "black"(quotes because he isn't really black)president and that we are trying to bring him down because he is black.
They totally ignore the fact that if it wasn't for white people he wouldn't have been elected.
All they hear is the "racist" charge every time they turn on a TV or radio.
Bozo and his crew are hoping the violence we see creeping out every where will eventually cause whites to erupt and start shooting blacks, or vice versa, he doesn't care who starts it, as long as it starts.
If anyone knew who their fathers were,
I'd take it out on them. The FATHER
is responsible for the behavior of
those in his household.
Unfortunately, I believe the "father"
would most likely be a guy in a
red and white striped stovepipe hat,
white beard, prone to pointing.
Now the WHITE guy who beat up a BLACK woman at a Cracker Barrel yesterday... that guy gets the FBI called in to investigate a hate crime (I am not kidding).
Now this piece of crap loser needs to get some serious jail time beating up this WOMAN (no need to reflect race) in front of her daughter. But the hate crime crap just irks me.
And this jacka** needs to get some jail time too.
How's that Hope and Change working out for y'all...
More hope and change. So far I haven't seen much change. Needless to say I had no hope for the racist administration. Somehow whitey is to blame.
"Whitey" has forgotten how to protect himself, better learn how to throw nut punches.
OH OH OH, I just finally loaded the whole video.
This EXACT scenario happened to me in the 8th grade. No room and no one wanted to sit three to a seat. So the bus driver said "Just sit anywhere", so I did.
This boy tried to kick me out of the seat (I still can't figure out why he had such an issue, hell I wasn't ugly or anything. Just immature I guess) and kicked me in the ribs after sliding back and getting enough room to jab me with his foot.
So the exception to how my scenario and this is different is that I totally whipped that boy's butt. I mean like bloody nose and all. The pretty little 13 year old 8th grader that I was just happened to be a former tomboy Little League football player. oops
most white kids don't know how to fight anymore...
Most white kids are told "not" to fight by their parents. This is not the case for the black kids.
Proud of ya...
I'm not sure it's biblical, but I'm teaching my girls to defend themselves. My 4 yr old has taken a real shine to, and a great mindset for, martial arts sparring... "I'm showing you my angry face" :)
As to the biblical correctness of teaching a girl to fight, well, when there are biblically correct boys around to stick up for them, I'll tell them that that is NOT the time to fight for themselves. Having the skill and the mindset are not a detriment, in the meanwhile.
From their parents and their "culture." "Hating whitey" has been par for the course for decades/centuries among many of these people.
The racist demagoguery is approaching Third Reich levels, and it would not suprise me it will sometime in the near future to reach Kristallnact levels. Especially as Obama continues on his path of American destruction and his popularity falls down to his jackboot supporters only.
Investigate the driver as well.
As for the two that did the beating,,, lockdown 23 hours a day till whenever the victim is old enough to say let `em go.
When would "old enough" be? Oh, old enough for this as well...
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That would give the little bass-turds somthing to think about for a few years...
"When can I get out of jail?"
"When the kid you attacked is old enough to buy a gun."
"(Black on white hate crime?)"
Who ever wrote this title must have slept through Civics class in the publik skool. Everyone knows there ain't no such thang as a black hating a white. No siree. No such thang.
What will happen is that the black students will say the white kid on the bus had a drawing of a noose on his books or they saw a drawing of a noose or some BS...just like Jena 6. In Jena, they beat the white kid up because someone had put a noose up in a tree at school...the kid they beat up had nothing to do with the noose, which apparently was put up for a football rivalry.
Good for you. Just remember women who shoot are hard to beat. At least that is what my Mom taught my Sister!
Ah yes, firearms training goes without saying... :)
"...women who shoot are hard to beat."
Stole that...Thankyou.
Expect to see more and more of this over the next few years as the left steps up the race baiting. The poor kid probably made a critical statement about Obama or Kanye.
Excellent, We have a 5 year old at home, archery, shooting and hunting are part life.
If they go black (ebonics, baggy pants, black music, gangs, guns, drugs, etc.) they may stand a chance of surviving (unless they get shot), but they are now hobbled in life since they picked up a defective culture along with all of its anti-success trappings.
The timer is running on the President. I wonder how long it will be until he makes a comment. Or maybe the Gates thing taught him to shut up no matter what happens.
As my relatives and friends who grew up in racially mixed areas/school districts will tell you, this sh-t was going on LONG before Obama or Kanye were a gleam in their respective mother's eyes.
That is a fact, I finished High School in NY State in the middle 80's north of NY *hitty, and due to changes in the welfare system, you guessed it, the same animals on that bus in Belville ended up in our area with the same results. The animals got away with that behavior 2 times on more timid nerd types, then for some un-known reason a new sport developed for my friends and I called "kick the Kan" All race related stupidity came to an end when the animals were on the recieving end of that game.
This kid getting beat up is mostly about a mob of idiots attacking someone they perceive as weak and unable to defend himself. If you notice, as soon as the kid gets up and pushes back a little the thug moves back.
Thugs will use race or anything else that their pea sized brains can come up with as an excuse to become violent. The reason is alot less important than the violent act.
This could happen to anyone in a public place at anytime. It is important to be able to protect yourself or to get away. Adults should be prepared and you should prepare your children for this as well.
I feel bad for this kid but he should have moved away from the maniac asap. He should have used his book or backpack as a shield to avoid being punched. If he was trapped and could not get away then he should have punched into the throat, eyes and groin. In close quarters he could have also used his knees and elbows.
I have instructed my kids to get away from an attacker if they can or to fight like a maniac if they cant. They know how to punch, kick, knee and elbow if needed. They know that I will not get angry at them for defending themselves.
The Bus Driver should have stopped the bus after about a minute and called the school district police or city police. He/She should have also removed the assailants from the bus and had them sit on the side of the road until the cops showed up.
I beleive the Driver and the School District will be liable for whatever a trial lawyer can dream up for damages.
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The Last Times
Christianity is rooted in Palestine in a Jewish environment and in the historical circumstances of a plainly dated period. This assuredly requires no argument. To this time and place we are therefore bound to go for the elucidation of Christian Origins.
But it is by no means easy to relate the life of Jesus and the activities of his original followers, known as Nazoreans (Nazarenes), to the contemporary situation. This is largely due to the character of the New Testament and the paucity of external evidences about the beginnings of Christianity. To reach conclusions which can fairly be regarded as corresponding as nearly as possible to the reality entails a vast amount of analysis and comparison, the patient piecing together of a host of hints and scraps of tradition, and in particular a sympathetic involvement in the affairs of the Jewish people and detachment from considerations of Christian theology.
Because of what the Church has taught for so many centuries it has been extremely difficult for Christian scholars to undertake such an investigation objectively. Those who have embarked upon it and produced most valuable results merit the highest praise. One pioneer, Professor F. C. Burkitt of Cambridge, whom the writer was privileged to know personally, advisedly used these cautionary words: 'We must be prepared to find the whole drama of the rise of Christianity more confused, more secular, in a word more appropriate to the limitations of its own age, than we should gather from the epic selectiveness of the Creeds and the theological manuals.' Such language is necessary, and should be heeded by those theologians who feel quite at liberty to expound Christianity as if it owed little or nothing to its original background of thought. The Bishop of Woolwich, to quote a recent instance, can freely employ keywords like Christ and Gospel without apparent concern for their primary meaning and implications. Christ is the Greek translation of the Hebrew term Messiah, meaning the Anointed One, and the Gospel, from the Greek Evangel, translating the Hebrew word for Good News, was initially the information that the Messiah expected by the Jews had appeared.
It makes all the difference to our understanding of Christianity if we are enabled to apprehend that it did not begin as a new religion but as a movement of monotheistic Jews who held Jesus to betheir God-sent king and deliverer. Here, in a sentence, is what it is imperative to know about the origins of Christianity. Here we have the essential clue to the activities of Jesus and his first followers which helps to compensate for many material facts which are beyond recovery. Armed with this information we can get Christianity in correct perspective, and trace clearly and simply in the light of what is ascertainable how it was transformed into what it afterwards became.
It is often said that Christianity is founded upon a person. That is true. But it is only part of the historical truth. What, so to speak, was the person founded upon? The answer is that he was founded upon an idea, a strange idea current among the Jews of his time, an idea alien to Westem thought which many non Jewish theologians still find very inconvenient, the idea of Messianism. It was Messianism which made the life of Jesus what it was and so brought Christianity into being. It was Messianism, as accepted by Gentile believers, which contributed towards making the deification of Jesus inevitable. It was Messianism which provided the spiritual impulse behind the Jewish war with Rome which broke out in A.D. 66, resulting in the destruction of much authoritative testimony about Jesus and the substantial separation of Gentile from Jewish Christianity.
The fundamental teaching of Christianity, then, was that in Jesus the Messiah (the Christ) had come. There can be not the shadow of a doubt about this. It is the ultimate conviction on which the whole edifice of Christianity rests, the historical fact on which all the Gospels are agreed. This teaching was the gospel, underlying all the Gospels, the one thing which gave them the right to be so called. The faith of the earliest believers in Jesus was that which voiced itself in the declaration of Peter, as recorded in Mark, 'You are the Messiah', simply this without any qualification. The persuasion they had was built upon what Jesus had said and done. It was he who had given them cause to conclude that he was the Messiah, and he had done so quite deliberately. But what the Gospels do not tell us is what in the first instance had persuaded him. Unless we can discover why Jesus held himself to be the Messiah, what current teaching about the Messiah he applied to himself we are not in possession of the key to the mystery of his life and death.
We have no right to say that while Jesus accepted the designation of Messiah he did so in a sense quite different from any expectations entertained in his time. It would be unthinkable for him to do this, firstly because being the Messiah meant answering to certain prophetic requirements which for him were divinely inspired, and secondly because he would consciously have been depriving his people of any possibility of acknowledging him: he would be inviting them to reject him as a false Messiah.
We have to take the view that Jesus believed it to be his calling and destiny to fulfil the Messianic Hope, and to do so in a manner which would conform with the predictions he accepted as authoritative. Our business is to find out the conditions with which Jesus felt he had to comply, and on this basis to follow the course of his actions. Obviously we have to divorce the issue altogether from the paganised doctrine of the incarnation of the Godhead with which for Christians it has become intermingled, since expectation did not identify the Messiah with God, and, indeed, the nature of Jewish monotheism wholly excluded such an idea. Jesus as much as any other Jew would have regarded as blasphemous the manner in which he is depicted, for instance, in the Fourth Gospel.
Taking the Gospels together, and these are the chief source of our information about Jesus, we have in them an epitome of the process by which the traditions about him grew and expanded with the changing needs and fortunes of succeeding generations of believers, Jewish and Gentile, so that Jesus as he appears in them is a composite and somewhat contradictory figure. His image is like the idol of Nebuchadnezzar's dream in the book of Daniel, part gold, part silver, part bronze, part iron and part clay. The gold is there to be extracted, but we cannot take hold of it unalloyed without knowledge of the influences and circumstances to which Jesus himself had responded. It is not enough to look back to him through the minds of much later believers not of Jewish origin: we have imperatively to look forward to him through the pre-Christian development of Messianism.
The coming of the Messiah was not something fortuitous: it was closely linked with a period of history prophetically anticipated, the Last Times or End of the Days, which would precede the inauguration of the Kingdom of God. The Messiah could not appear at any time, but only at the End of the Days, at a time of testing and great tribulation for Israel.
The conception of the Last Times drew upon Biblical predictions relating to the Latter Days and the Day of the Lord, which became combined with Babylonian and Persian ideas of a succession of Ages. During the Ages the forces of Good and Evil would contend with one another, and the struggle would reach its climax in the penultimate Age, being followed by the final Age of peace and bliss, the Kingdom of God. The Last Times would thus be the closing period of the old order, when the assaults of Evil would reach their most malevolent intensity, bringing great misery to humanity and persecution and suffering to the Elect of Israel. When these signs appeared then the Messiah was to be expected.
According to those who studied these matters, it could not be known how long the Last Times would endure, but it could be known approximately when they would begin. For this a basis of calculation had to be available, and it was found in the book of Daniel in the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks, later understood to mean seventy weeks of years (490 years). The Last Times could be expected to begin after the lapse of 490 years 'from the going forth of the commandment [of Cyrus] to restore and build Jerusalem', that is to say, after about 46 B.C. Those who believed in this interpretation, and were living in the reign of Herod the Great (37–4 B.C.), could accept that the Last Times had now begun, and that therefore before very long the coming of the Messiah was to be expected. This explains why a strong messianic excitement manifested itself among the Jews from this time onward, and why no one before this had claimed to be the Messiah.
The part of the book of Daniel in which the prophecy occurs has been dated about 164 B.C. The author is assuming the name of a man supposed to be living near the end of the sixth century B.C. From other visions of his he appears to have expected the Era of Righteousness would come not very long after his actual time. Some thought it had come in the reign of John Hyrcanus I (137–3 B.C.). We do not know much about earlier calculations, and the one to which we have referred was worked out later when the hopes entertained of the Hasmoneans had been grievously disappointed. It is after 100 B.C. that the literature we have reveals a mounting interest in the Last Times and in the advent of messianic personalities. By the first century of our era it had become quite feverish, and had engendered a state of near hysteria among the people. It was wholly in keeping with the circumstances that a figure like John the Baptist should now appear proclaiming that the Kingdom of God was at hand, and calling upon the people to repent and save themselves from the Wrath to Come. It was no less appropriate that a man like Jesus should be convinced he was the Messiah and announce that 'the Time is fulfilled'. The calculations of pious scribes confirmed the time, but what was more the conditions of the time reinforced the calculations.
Messianism was a product of the Jewish spirit. It was inspired by the Hebrew reading of the riddle of the creation and destiny of mankind. Though some of its features did not originate with the Hebrews, they absorbed them and brought them into relationship with a great vision of the ultimate Brotherhood of Man under the rule of the One God and Father of all men. The vision was not simply a cherished ideal: it was associated with a plan for its realisation. According to this plan God had chosen and set apart one nation among the nations of the world, neither numerous nor powerful, to be the recipient of his laws, and by observing them to offer a universal example. The Theocracy of Israel would be the persuasive illustration of a Warld Theocracy: it would be 'a kingdom of priests and a holy nation' witnessing to all nations. Manifestly, according to this view, the redemption of humanity waited upon the attainment by Israel of a state of perfect obedience to the will of God. By so much as Israel failed to meet the Divine requirements, by so much was the peace and well-being of mankind retarded.
The history of Israel, seen in this light, was a prolonged schooling, national disposition to go astray having to be corrected by the infliction of appropriate punishments, conquest and oppression by foreigners, pestilence and famine, exile. Internally much depended on the guidance of rulers, priests and kings. These too were judged by whether they 'did right in the sight of the Lord'. Their failures called for an additional activity by messengers of God in a succession of prophets.
Eventually, it began to be despaired of that the whole people could be brought to the necessary state of perfection. Hopes were pinned on an elect remnant of faithful souls, by whose obedience the redemption would be hastened. They would be the elite of the final World Order, entitled to its highest honours by their loyalty and by their sufferings in this present world. The Messianic Hope became concentrated upon the determined efforts of the pious, the Saints, to observe the Law, thus justifying God in acting speedily. If the time was greatly prolonged even the Elect might prove unequal to the strain. It was imperative for the pious themselves to search out what Divine guidance had been given to set a term to their endurance, what signs were to be expected to intimate that the End of the Days had arrived. The last stage of the evolution of the Messianic Hope envisaged the intervention of God by means of the Anointed Ones, ideal figures, a Prophet like Moses, a perfect Priest, a righteous King of the line of David. These would come in the End of the Days as God's highest appointed representatives to transform the whole world scene and usher in the Kingdom of God.
The scheme of the Messianic Hope, as outlined here, must be understood to be composite and not fully comprehensive. Many ingredients went into the framing of the Hope. Different aspects were emphasised at different times and by different groups. It was accentuated as certain historical situations arose, particularly after the return from the Babylonian Exile, and was not consciously present in the thinking of the Jewish people all the time. Concern with the coming of messianic persons was part of the later expression of the Hope, especially from the second century B.C. onward, though it was nourished on ideas and predictions hundreds of years older, not excluding popular folklore and mythology.
We may select three circumstances as contributing importantly to making the Messianic Hope the powerful influence it became in the first century B.C. One of these was a change in attitude towards the Bible. The Hebrew Bible consists of three divisions; the Law, the Prophets (Joshua to Malachi), and the Writings (beginning with the Psalms and including the book of Daniel). The divisions represent stages of acceptance into canonicity. The Law, as consisting of the five books of Moses, had binding force by the fifth century B.C., or not much later. The Prophets did not acquire their force until about the third century B.C. The Psalms and some other books soon formed the basis of the third division, which was finally settled at the end of the first century A.D. The effects of the recognition of the Law and the Prophets, with the Psalms, as a corpus of sacred Scriptures were far-reaching. It opened the way for a new development, the treatment of these books as the Oracles of God. They became subject to all kinds of interpretation to draw out of them hidden meanings and prognostications.
A second circumstance was the worst calamity which had be-fallen the Jews since the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah and the loss of the Temple at the beginning of the sixth century B.C. The new calamity was seen by pious Jews to be impending as a consequence of the attractions of Hellenism, which since the time of Alexander the Great had made increasing inroads into Jewish life and thought, fostering moral laxity and apostacy. The judgement of God must surely fall upon the nation as it had done in the past. It fully confirmed this opinion when the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes (175–62 B.C.) decreed the abolition of the Jewish religion and converted the Temple at Jerusalem into a shrine of Zeus Olympius. Throughout the country there was great persecution, until resistance was organised by the sons of the aged priest Mattathias of Modim. One son, Judas Maccabaeus, led the revolt in the name of God, and after a series of remarkable successes cleansed and rededicated the defiled Temple. One of the products of this testing time was the book of Daniel. Its apocalyptic dreams and visions were to exercise a major influence on messianic thinking and prediction.
The third circumstance to which we must draw attention is Jewish sectarianism. The experiences of the nation in the time of Antiochus and his immediate successors had administered a severe shock. The people became much more devout. There was revived in them a sense of destiny, of belonging to God in a special way, which demanded faithfulness to the Law revealed to them through Moses. They saw in the victories of the Maccabees the hand of God, outstretched for their deliverance when they were obedient to his commandments. The Messianic Hope comes out strongly in Daniel, where the people of the Saints of the Most High (likened to a Son of Man compared with the Beast figures representing the predatory heathen Empires) are entrusted with God's everlasting kingdom, when all rulers will serve and obey him. It began to matter very much to the more spiritually sensitive that the Divine laws should be observed meticulously, and this inevitably gave rise to sectarianism, to competition in holiness. From this period three ways of life in particular are made known to us, those of the Sadducees, Pharisees and Essenes. They were minority movements, numbering only a few thousands in each case, but they were nevertheless extremely influential and gave impetus to the exposition of the Messianic Hope. Unfortunately, as regards the first two, they were also involved in a power-struggle for control of the political affairs of the nation.
Excerpted from THE PASSOVER PLOT by HUGH J. SCHONFIELD. Copyright © 1965 Hugh J. Schonfield. Excerpted by permission of The Disinformation Company Ltd..
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended slightly higher on Friday, helped by better-than-expected quarterly results from Google's parent Alphabet and retailer Amazon and a modest recovery in oil prices.


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