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. 1906 Excerpt: ...while never the fruit of personal rancour, we sometimes miss the ring of outraged love which marks those of the gospels. His vehemence may flash out upon us with something unbeautiful and harsh. His conception of marriage in the Epistle to the Corinthians would strike the casual reader as less than logical and even a ...
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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. 1906 Excerpt: ...while never the fruit of personal rancour, we sometimes miss the ring of outraged love which marks those of the gospels. His vehemence may flash out upon us with something unbeautiful and harsh. His conception of marriage in the Epistle to the Corinthians would strike the casual reader as less than logical and even a little ignoble. These defects are just in short the tokens of his humanity where he is not entirely possessed or directed by Christ. Here is the last remnant of the Pharisee who was once a bigot, of the man who had it in him to persecute a little hunted community of enthusiasts for the glory of God--it is the fading trace of the chief of sinners whom he sadly arraigns before his own conscience. To love Paul, then, there must be no desultory reading. We are not immediately enchained. We must know his history, understand the convulsion which gripped and changed his life, understand his love for his friends, his almost fierce but always beautiful exaltations, the limitations imposed by his physical frame, his subtle metaphysical genius, and, above all, we must realize the central fire which consumed his baser self so that he is unendingly ready to part with old prejudices and preferences, only longing for the coming of the kingdom. To those who accept, like the present writer, the epistle to the Ephesians as genuinely Pauline, it is clear that his old ideas on marriage, which seem to us less than beautiful, are swept away with fuller experience of Christ, and marriage is raised to be a symbol of nothing less than the union of Christ with His church. In this epistle, as in the Epistle to the Philippians, we find Paul completely impregnated with the new ideals of the relation of God to His children, which he has received from his Master. The apostle...
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