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. 1918 Excerpt: ...their graves, and God would then take over the kingdom, holy and glorious.... There was no general agreement about the way in which this program should be worked out, nor indeed about the character of the Messiah Himself. He is most commonly called the King, the Anointed One, and the Son of David, a warrior under whose ...
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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. 1918 Excerpt: ...their graves, and God would then take over the kingdom, holy and glorious.... There was no general agreement about the way in which this program should be worked out, nor indeed about the character of the Messiah Himself. He is most commonly called the King, the Anointed One, and the Son of David, a warrior under whose leadership the Jews would tread upon the neck of the eagle. There was little expectation that He would be merely a teacher of personal religion, and no expectation that He would strive with the leaders of His people, and be condemned by them to die upon the cross.1 Ovi"/ stran&e literature grew out of this Messianic expectation, rich in symbolism, 11 am in debt for the summary of the Messianic hope of this period to Dr. Shailer Matthew's little book, " A History of New Testament Times in Palestine." unbounded in imagination and wholly concerned with the end of the world and the overturning of earthly institutions. There was much loose handling of dates, and a kind of elastic time-scheme into which almost anything could be made to fit. We have come to see of late how greatly popular thought was influenced by this eschatology in the times directly before the coming of Jesus, and how the Apostolic Church and primitive Christianity were affected by these inherited beliefs. Indeed, we find reflections of them in the Gospels. The Book of Revelation is shot through with their splendour, as storm-clouds are shot through with light, and because they are thus a part of the prophecies of the Old Testament, and the predictions and vision of the New Testament, they have exercised through the centuries, and still exercise a really commanding influence. In our times of peace and prosperity they are forgotten, but great misfortune recalls ...
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