Emphasis Preaching Journal

"Exile immobilizes to some degree the minds of those who suffer it. It imprisons them forever within the circle of ideas which they had conceived or which were current when their exile began. For the exile, the new conditions which have been created in his native country and the new ways of thinking and behaving which have been established there do not exist."

When Israel arrived in the Promised Land, they took with them the slavishness in their souls, "the circle of ideas ... which were current when their exile began."