This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...The loud voice, with which, Jesus immediately calls into the sepulchre and orders the dead to come forth, plainly typifies the voice of the Son of God, which hereafter all men who are lying in their graves shall hear, and thereupon come forth out of them (John v. 28, ff.); it is the word of command for the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...The loud voice, with which, Jesus immediately calls into the sepulchre and orders the dead to come forth, plainly typifies the voice of the Son of God, which hereafter all men who are lying in their graves shall hear, and thereupon come forth out of them (John v. 28, ff.); it is the word of command for the Resurrection, which in other passages the Archangel, as the herald of the Messiah, is commissioned to pronounce, and which is accompanied by a loud sound of a trumpet (1 Cor. xv. 52; 1 Thess. iv. 16). We have considered the history of the raising of Lazarus, as well as the two other Evangelical histories of the raising of dead persons, as an unhistorical emanation of the imagination of the first Christians, as an illustration of the same dogmatic theme, only more conscious and more artificial. We have felt ourselves bound to take this view by the consideration that the narrative is as inconceivable historically as its origin is capable of easy and complete explanation from the dogmatic theories and peculiar character of the Johannine Gospel. There is still another circumstance to be considered. The fourth Gospel makes no mention of the two other cases of raising of the dead. It is intelligible that it should not do so, and no one would think of impugning its historical character on the ground of its silence about them. For even supposing that they had actually taken place, everything that gave them importance was involved in the history of Lazarus to such a high degree, that in a history which besides was under the necessity of proceeding electively, the addition of the former to the latter might be fairly dispensed with. The case is very different if it is asked, conversely, how it is that the synoptics say nothing of the raising of Lazarus--a...
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