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. 1899 Excerpt: ...to have Himself proclaimed before the world as the Messiah by demons. He has his own witnesses in training. The witness of the demons might compromise Him in the eyes of their hearers. Hence His command of silence. 1: 44 "See you say nothing to any one." Jesus came to make a religious, not a political, revolution. In ...
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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. 1899 Excerpt: ...to have Himself proclaimed before the world as the Messiah by demons. He has his own witnesses in training. The witness of the demons might compromise Him in the eyes of their hearers. Hence His command of silence. 1: 44 "See you say nothing to any one." Jesus came to make a religious, not a political, revolution. In opposing the trumpeting abroad of the prodigies of healing he wrought, he desired to avoid exciting the people and so occasioning the Messianic agitations his miracles tended to produce. Provoking, though, in spite of himself, the enthusiasm of the crowds, at this epoch of his ministry, he was afraid of injuring his work either in appearing to lend himself to the profane and political hopes, associated by his fellow countrymen with the name Messiah, or in developing, too soon, a too lively jealousy of his enemies. Later, when his hour shall have come, he will cease to oppose the divulging of his miracles. "2:3. "Carried by four men " " their faith" " child" How much is implied in these expressions!" The faith alluded to, it is to be noticed, is that of the friends of the paralytic. Here, then, is a miserable object unable either to walk or believe, impotent alike in body and soul. He is in need of both physical and spiritual aid. So he is carried on the physical shoulders of his friends and they supply as well the needed faith. He is a veritable child, as Jesus practically calls him. So, as in the case of children, the faith of others answers for them in the spiritual realm just as the physical strength and attention of others answers for them on the physical side of being. There is such a thing, then, as vicarious faith. 2:4. "They removed the roof where he was." The roofs of houses i...
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