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. 1872 Excerpt: ...flax (for they had prayed him to give them living bread) by uttering still harder sayings, until many even of his disciples ask who can hear them. Where in all this do we see the earnest teacher who by his graphic and vivid parables, by images drawn from the most familiar objects, leads the dull and ignorant onward ...
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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. 1872 Excerpt: ...flax (for they had prayed him to give them living bread) by uttering still harder sayings, until many even of his disciples ask who can hear them. Where in all this do we see the earnest teacher who by his graphic and vivid parables, by images drawn from the most familiar objects, leads the dull and ignorant onward like little children, until they feel themselves breathing a purer atmosphere and catch some glimpse, however faint, of the light that streams from heaven? V. The discourses given in the succeeding chapters are so similar in character to the one just examined, that they may be dismissed with a few words. They contain the same language respecting the person of Christ, of his descent from heaven (vii. 18, 28), of living water (38), of light and darkness (viii. 12), of witness received from men and witness borne from above (13-19), of those who are from beneath, and him who is from above (23), of freedom and bondage (32, 33). All these ideas, as we might expect, are thoroughly misunderstood; nor can we say that any effort is made to remove the misapprehension. It is quite certain that such a method applied to an average English audience at the present day would very soon exasperate them. No other result, indeed, was possible; for when the Jews (vii. 27) say that they know whence Jesus is (meaning that he was born and bred in Nazareth), Jesus answers, that they know him, and also whence he is (using the words, not in a geographical or historical, but in a metaphysical sense), and immediately goes on to use language which, without explanation, could not fail to be offensive to them. But the whole of the discourse in the next chapter turns upon the express assertion that they do not know him (viii. 14, 19); and here again (viii. 38), Jesus suddenly dra...
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