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. 1887 Excerpt: ... should set tortures would have to be endured which it is beyond our power to conceive. The Lord Jesus stood, as it were, on the brink of an awful precipice, at the bottom of which were the very horrors of hell. From the descent Christ's human nature shrank, though His divine love was stronger than death. At such an ...
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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. 1887 Excerpt: ... should set tortures would have to be endured which it is beyond our power to conceive. The Lord Jesus stood, as it were, on the brink of an awful precipice, at the bottom of which were the very horrors of hell. From the descent Christ's human nature shrank, though His divine love was stronger than death. At such an hour as this, how it must have added to the bitterness of Christ's trials when He found that even amongst the chosen and cherished friends whom He had gathered around Him there had been jealousy and dissension! Instead of concentrating all their thoughts upon the Master from whom they were so soon to be parted, the apostles were actually disputing amongst themselves as to which of them was the greatest! Harold. That very dispute shows that St. Peter was not the acknowledged head of the apostles. Ida. It is strange that at such a time there should be any disputing. Do we at all know its cause? Lady L. It may have been about the chief seat--the seat most close to the Lord. Another suggestion has been put forth. The dispute may have been the result of a question arising as to which of the party should perform the slave's office of washing the feet of the rest. Feetwashing, as we know from other parts of Scripture, was a common custom amongst the Jews. When the Lord said to the Pharisee, "Thou gavest Me no water to wash My feet," He showed that not to offer this needful refreshment was a breach of hospitality. If there had been any dispute amongst the apostles as to which of them should fill the brass basin with water, and kneel down to wash the feet of his brethren, how wonderfully expressive was the silent, touching rebuke conveyed by their Master in the action of which we are going to read! READING FROM JOHN XIII. "Now before the f...
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