This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... XIX. HIS FACE. "And His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength." Rev. i. 16. "THE face which men spat upon--the visage which was " so marred more than any man's" by buffeting, and smiting, and tears, and blood; for never was man on earth so barbarously, so inhumanly treated as the Son of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... XIX. HIS FACE. "And His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength." Rev. i. 16. "THE face which men spat upon--the visage which was " so marred more than any man's" by buffeting, and smiting, and tears, and blood; for never was man on earth so barbarously, so inhumanly treated as the Son of man was by the people among whom He lived and moved--that face is now seen radiant with--full of--majesty and glory, even "as the sun shineth in his strength; " for so did it appear to John in vision; and His whole aspect was so transcendently bright and dazzling, he tells us, that when he saw Him, he fell at His feet as dead. Of all the emblems descriptive of the person of Christ, even as the sun itself surpasses in glory all the light-bearers in the firmament, being six hundred times greater in bulk, and seven hundred and forty times greater in weight, than all the planets that are known to us--surely we have here an emblem that bears off the palm, so to speak, that triumphs over all others: or, like as in the dream, all the sheaves made obeisance to the sheaf of Joseph, so must the other emblems bow to this, which is central to all the others round it, even as the sun is centre of the planetary system, and the great source of light and heat. "As the sun!" The worship of this orb was one of the earliest forms of idolatry, and to this day the followers of Zoroaster among the Parsees or Persians in India lay themselves prostrate on the ground at his appearance in the sky. Ignorant of the great Creator Himself, and following the notions of their own hearts, the sun has been conceived of as God, and men have prayed and burned incense to it. Happily we know better; and the light, and warmth, and beauty by which the earth is mantled, as the ruler...
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