PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2
Henry Robert Reynolds [1825-1896] · 490,594 words · 512 reading sections
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being. We find ouMelves here inseparably connected with a place, We m1tke montnl and ~pirit,nRI excursions even to the infinite and illimitable, but still we find our c0n~c,iousnees connectl'd with a place. Loc111ity enters Into all our notions of all finito <'Xi~tcnces. They are, and they are somewhere. (2) Thie Is…
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nml hie prayers were really answered. He now expresses his will as one of the Di vim counsels. 2. 111 il8 content8. "'fhat they also whom," etc. Thie implies : (1) That Jesus would not be happy without them. (2) 'fhat they would, not be happy withrJUt him. (3) That to,qether they wmld aetain the consummation of happine…
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tlii~ could only be clearly Been when through a set of entirely different experience~ The workings of that Being whom Jesus calls Father should appear, Jes\18, who her~tofore had been strenuonsly active, WI\S now to be almost entlrely pMsive. The Father wl\8 now going to glorify him through the m&nifestation \i the mee…
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striking il!ustrntion of the definiteness of the pmyerR of Jesus. He knowR e:rnctly for whom ho 18 prnyin;r, and what he wants for them. He defines them positively, and ho defines them negatively, It ie not enough for him to call them his own. It must nlso be snid why they nre his own. If they belonged to the world,…
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l<RW the imprisonments, the ecourgings, the stonings. The disciples would understand the reference bett.er aft.erwRrds than at the moment it WRB made. Jesus himself waa ,>n the point of being taken out of the world. The significance of the particnllL!' expres- sion ought to be rarefully noted. It is not merely a perip…
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Ver. 18.-7he two apoRtle.9hip.,. Tho sense of apostleship must enter into nil true Christion work. 'fhe Lord Jesus tnkes but the rank of an apostle-speakH to his Father ae having made him an opostlo into the world. He grows up to manhood, not as other lad, in NILT.nreth, to choose Bn occupation and walk in life for …
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Ver. 21.-.A prayer jO'f' tl/1/,ity. I. LOOK AT THIS PBAYEB IN THE LIGHT OF PEN- TECOST. Within two months from the utterance of the prayer, the apostles, through their spokesman Peter, uttered forth their first great word concerning their glorified and ascended Master, and in that same day there was added to the npost…
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EXPOSITION. CHAPTER XVIII. and separates the city on its ea.stem side from Scopss e.nd the Mount of Olives. It reaches B. THE Hoos RAS co111E. its deepest depression at the point where it Ver. 1-ch. xix. 42.-1. The outer glori- joins the Valley of Hinnom near the well of fication of Christ in hiB PaBaion. Rogel, co…
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(uaih-l!hammi, pl'8811 for oil). The traditione.l Ver. 3. -1uda1 therefore, becauee he eite of the garden de.t.es be.ok t.o the time of knew the ple.ce, we.e a.ble tree.oherouely to Constantine, e.nd me.y be the true aoene of the use bis knowledge, Ha.vinir reoelved the ngony described by the synoptiets. There cohort. …
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nro epokun of In the plurnl, rnpa."11"Yoi, """ have occurred as the first answer to hie l,pov, The Jewish guarrl was nnder the summons. And aaith unto them, Whom custody of one offloor, 6 ,,.,,.P"-T1J"'f&,, nnd he seek yel wnen mnn of high mnlrnndrlignity(,Joeephue, Vera. 5, 6.-They answered him; Jesus 'Ant.,' :u:. 6. …
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the AAfet,- ,.nd rutnre work of thnee who be put on the s&mo levol with tbo wortl ■ knew that. hi' had oome ont from God. themeelvee. Even Reuss finds here a ren.son Yer,. 7, 8.-Again then (o3v, ffl"'lmling 0 All for ho Idin~ the authenticity of mnny 11.t Ion.at tli0 {'{lnditions, the cup, tho oro1111, th<1 hlood-…
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Ver. 11.-ln Christ's reply there is no nBrr11tivo itself and on its goncml trnf,hful- mrr.Lion rondo of tho mimcle whioh followed, ness. Keim almost angrily dismisaos it, and 1md yet the narrative is incomplete without Stranss endeavoun to show that it is in- H. Something must h11ve rostmined the b11nd 11nd the high pr…
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(HRnim, AnRnlRB, AnannB) wu a man of ,John. The frivoloua supposition of Thoma, grent cRpncit1· and e:rnh1si1·ene&B, charged th11t the author of thle Goepel WN! playing with fiery p!U!eione and bitter hatred of the uprm the ide11 of the beaet (Judas) and the PhRrisRic party. He wn.B a.ppoin~d high false prophet, and…
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also reminds his renrlors once more of the door, and finding Peter there, sprik~ to her Bigniflcanco or ovary step in this tragedy. who kept the door (d. Acts xii. 13). His Ver. 15.-Now. Aftor tho first disperRion 11ppeal mo.y easily he enpplied-and ha or o.11 the disoiplcs, two of them gnthered up brought in Peter.…
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given by John-A.rt thou, RB well e.a my ac- to take knowledge of the mntter and report q110.iulanoe yonder, alBo one of thia Jl:a.n'■ to the Sanhedrin." We must choose between clie~iples ! He nith, I am not. The other two difficulties: (1) Oaiaphaa ia flret spoken ernngeli•te amplify this negative in va.rioue of as …
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Fomth Goepel was wrilton truth allied to now dawning on him. Saying, .&mwerest tho tonching of the upper ohe.mber. thou the high priest 10 l Ver. 21.-Why aakeat thou mel If thou Ver. 23.-J'e&118 anawered him, U I have "l'a.n_toRt evidence touching my design, my 1poken evil, oome forward s.a a witness of rt1ec1ples, or…
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aee thee In the garden with him 1 The hie- of intensity e.nd terrible re!IUlt. Tflking torloo.lly o.ttested fa.et gave tho lie to Peter'e Matthew •nd Mark as virtually identical, provious assertions. Olearly he WBS seen and Luke's account ns a •eparate tradition with recognized and in imminent peril, and ho is referenc…
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liurt. wR• thr oe{'n.sicm, when the verdict waa cnac~~ent of the L11w, but W8I a purely givru by the Be.nhrorin in full session, not ra·bb1mc observance (Delitzaoh • 'l'nlnm- in the palnoe of the high prieHt, but in the diechc Studien,' xiv. (1874); • Zeltsohrirt filr "Guith,~ or JIOl!Sibly in the " Booths of die ge…
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preted in ita nntur11I sense: the Jewa were 11!\Y, with Rrnan, thut ,John baR S11h~tH11t,ed unwilling to contract oeromoninl defilement, the foot-washing fnr the sn,crame,ntlll fenst. becrmse they were o.bont to oo.t the Pnssover, (On tho principle of his omisirions, see Intro- e.nd so with respoct to the other roforcn…
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he were not a malefaotor, 1 we ahould not me.lign dispoaiUon and diatlnot purpose of have delivered him up to thee. Thie WI\B the Jews were revee.lod. They would not eomewhRt e.udaoioua. It was ae much f\S to he.ve brought Jesus At e.11 before the Ilomnu ""Y, "We he.,•e judged, you have only to governor, nor admitte…
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thoro Is In John's ne.rre.tive no direct hint th~ Pr11JIMlum, It i& nnneceaso.ry (with of Luke's e.tldltion I e.nd Oh:rist's oounter- mo.ny) to see in Pilate an "almost per- que•tion to the inquiry of Pilo.te (whioh suaded" believer in the cle.ims of Jeans, lo.et is given In the some form by nil four who yet we.a wa…
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I pnt forth any claim of this kind, which thou do to transform into thy blltllr thou as the chief m11.gistrate of this Roman enemies th011e who would natumlly condone rodnce hll!<t nny legal oognill:ance of?" f t was not, 1\8 Hen~tenberg and Westcott or favour any euoh olo.im as tho.t of being o 110ditioue rivA.I …
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pro)'ngnte or preeerve itself, from the worl,1, or whether 0~1tovv be tho form; then it wm1M wh1oh is II rivlll, llnd is not to be ooeroed but have the force of nonne i~lur 7 expecting rlrnwn to itself. Like the individual disciple, an nffirmntive response. It is nn lirra~ tho kingdom mny he in the world, but not o/…
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Ul<'d instend of ffJ\llov, ILDd implie1 that bis felt bow much they needed truth. The "t'!'lmin,t: is permanent in its eff'eC'tB, and not Sanhedriete eaid that "truth ia the ee&l of simply a past historic faot" (Westcott). In God," and they played upon the word MQN order tha.t I might bea.r witnen 11I1to the or "tru…
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lbtcrviow with Pilate throwe on the eynoptio and rererred to in this Gospel by th,i intm- nnrro.tivo: that, in faot, Pile.te'e whole con- duotion or a. 1rb,w (ver. 10). For o.lthough duot ie only explicable on the euppoeitiou John does not mention the first o.ttempt to th11t he h11d received cogent rooeoue to dis- secu…
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lieaded n11d maligue.nt priesbi and eldere, semi-superstitious feare, and he maundered who tbue eocurcd, not wiihont some diffi- in a feeble fBBhiou, " Whe.t ehe.11 I do with culty, e. popular oonfirme.tion of their me.- J88U8 that is oalled Ohriat P"-" with him ligtrnnt echeme. "NoT THIS MAN, BUT BARADBAS ! " we.e…
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HOMILETICS. Vere. 1-11.-Tlie appre11ensicm of Jesus. The crisis has come at l11Bt. I. Tm: B0ENE OF THE ARREAT. "He went forth with his disciples over the brook Kodron, where was II garden, into which ho entered, 11nd his disciples." 1. The garden WQ.8 on the slope of Mount Olivet, and therefore outside Jerusalem. 2. …
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Ven;. 15-18, 25-27.-The three denials of Peter. .After all the disciples had fled, some, like John and Peter, returned to the scene of our Lord's last trials. 1'his fact must be remembered to Peter's credit. L THE HISTOll.ICAL CIROUllSTANCEB OF PETEB's FALL. 1. The first circumstance mu; hu; introduction into the C…
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for thy Fric~d?" . 3. It was a loolc of Messed consolaUm. "I have prayed fnr thee, that thy faith fail not," 4. It was a look that, perhaps, grw11 a timely hint to the apn,q{/e to depart at once from the scene of danger. IV. 'l'RE EFFEOTS OF PETER's FALL. 1. He went out, andweptbiUerly. (1) Solitude WM the only reRour…
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looked for I\ t.empoml kingdom of the MeesiRh, (3) His kingdom, as essentially epirit.ual, Wf\8 not to be promoted by violence or force, (4) 'l.'he weapons of his wBJ:faro wNc t.nken from the Rrmoury of truth. "To this end was I born, and for this caueo came I into the world, that I should beA.r witness unto the truth.…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1, 2.-Gethsemane. The mind of man is naturally interested in places, not so much for their own sake, as for the sake of associations connected with them. Religions have their sacred places: the Jew ca.nnotforget Jerusalem; the Mohammedan venerates the holy Mecca ; and the Christian r…
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Ve!'II. 8, 9.-The unselfishnes., of <Jhrist. Jesus was in the gl\rden of Gethsemane. He bad passed through the agony. He was in the presence of the betrayer and his myrmidons. He was about to endure the indignities of the trials and the anguish of the cross. Yet his thonghts were not of himself, but of bis friends. …
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and with a view to encls the most purely benevolent that were ever conceive,! in tho whole history of tho universe-hung upon the croR~, it seems to ns that he uttered a cry wbic~ was the earnest of the ~piritual deliverance and emancipation of mankinrl, o. er)'. whwh wa.s the expreHsion at once of the deepest agony and…
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the spread of Christianity, wae certainly forbidden, both by the language and by the example of Jceu11. II. OHRrsT's AOOErrANOE OF THE CUP. 1. The n1tt11ro of this cup Is apparent from the oont€Xt as well as from other p1trts of Scripture, By "the cup" we are to under- stand suffering and sorrow. This is its meanini…
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Ver~. 19, 20.-'l'he publicity of Chrisfa ministry. Had the high prirst 'Jllestione<l ~esue ID t~i~ manner from any renl desire to be his disciple, odrom an ordinary and intel- hgen~ cun?s1ty, hia inquiries would have been received in a very different manner from that ID winch Jesns did actually respond to them. But i…
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Ver. 86.-!l?ie "'nworldly kingdom. It is not always possible to return a direct answer to a question. When Pilate asked our Lord Jesus," Art thou a King?" the reply could not have been either "Yes" or "No" without misleading the questioner. In a sense he was not a king,-that is, he mode no claim to an earthly, tempora…
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said Jesue, "is my kingdom not from hence." Designated "the kingdom of heaven" ?nd "the kingdom of God," it is, in its ground and in its character, what such desigrnitions involve, It is to the Divine wisdom and love that this unworldly kingdom must be traced. Christ is King by inheritance, as Son of God; by conques…
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unbelievers difference of opinion. But when theChristia.n tea.cher or preacher decla.ree as be is honnd to do, that the Scriptures revca.l " the truth " concerning the oharacte; Rnd purposes of God, and oonoeming the na.ture a.nd prospects of ma.n, then a.II the hostility of the opponent of religion, of the man who bel…
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the populace. 2. This language testifies to the sinfol :ind malicious conrlnct of Christ's enemies. Pilate wns rco.dy enough to see matters as they wore seen by the inAnentirrl clasR among the Jews. llut the case was ~o flrrgrant a case of groundless hatred an,! false accusation, that it was impossible that Pilate shou…
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courag-e completely spoilt their &nticipated sport of A ch&.se or A fight. 3. He mads him.•e(f known f,Q them. Re could nsk them with firmness, "Whom seek ye?" but tremblingly they replied," Jesus of Nnzareth." The Rom&n soldiel'B hnd unOinchingly faced m11.ny mi~hty foes, but this defenceless Jesus of Nazareth over…
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which make it ensily to be nccounted for that some should reckon it the choicest of the Gospels. It has whRt the others have not; but when we compare the otherH with it, to look for their pecnlinr excellences, then we find how the others have what this Gospel lacks. One would have thought beforehand the.t John would ha…
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yielding. He shows in his own Person how the just man has a fortress impre<TMble to violence. He could have vanished myeterionsly from the midst of his enemies, 8B he had done before; but what would thl\t have advantaged us? We cannot vanish from an oppo~ing world; we must eiWier meet violence with violence, or yiel…
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Ver, 21.-Tlie ri_ql,t people to ask, I. WFrY JESUS COULD REFER TO HIB HEAREBB, It is not every teacher that could refer confidently to hie hearers, not even to his most aUnchod nnd trustful ones. If he did, and if an accurate report could be uot of all their impressions, the result might not be very complimentary lo th…
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ORAPTER XIX. coeroe. John 1lBe8 the word l,.,.t1,,.{-y"""'"• a purely Greek word. Matthew and Mark, 'ferB. 1-S.-(d) [Within the Pretorinm.] who refer to the scourging which preceded !'he u,,ju.st gcqurgif19, and tl~ cror.on of thorM. Christ's being led to Calvary, use another Yer. 1.-Then Pilate therefore took .Jesu…
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hod beon pnt npon J csus by Ilerocl hnd Vers.1-7.-(e) [Without the Prrotorium.1 been probobly token from him before he Frtrlher prote,t,1tiom 1,y Pi/ate of Chri,t'4 was brought tho second time into the Prm- innocence bri-niJ m1t the hitlierlo-crmcenfo,l torium, nncl neoess11rily before his scourging. Jewish verdict tha…
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Ho-uo ! Thi• '\'l'Re, doubtleee, said t.o mlt.i- of' Mqnitfal (soe <'h. xviit. 91). At thla ~Rte or nllny their ferocity. "Let hie moment the eo-oallod triC\l might have •imple hnmnnity plend with yon! After euded, so for e.s Pilnte was conoorned with this 1rnrely you <'an desire no more." 1 a fre.nk e.ud immediate …
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yet John Ima glvon olesr proof that he wae selves to the lnronio recital of the ohnrgo as woll 11wnre of Iha oonfeaeion, and reoorde bore rce,orcled. The silence of Jesus is very the still more strildng faot th11t this speoial impressive, and we, in our ignor11nce, can only olaim of enpremo prerogRtive Mtnally oame …
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Ver. J0.-Therefore I n.ith Pilate to him; Ver. 11.-Thou would1t not have 1 11utho- nettlt"d by this ei lonoe, and with the arro• rity aga.in1t me of any ldnd, either j11dici1tl gance of a Roman proonrator, Bpeake■t or aotul\l, or both combined : thou wou\Jst thou not to me 1 " I do not wonder at hold no judicial pos…
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mont." Nevorthelcse, he implies tha.t Pila.ta against Jeem, bfd their most intense b&11 einnecl: he wa.s exercising hie seeming hatred of Roman rule by assuming the judiolnl rights irrespective of justice. He mask of loyal subjeotion tr, Tibnins a.nd tn lmd dechired Josue to be froo from hie.me or the majesty of the Cl…
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became g1'('nt.er than hie fellr of Ohriet; hie iii. 10. The l\1lloa--rpo,-ro11 was possibly some anxiety for himeelf predominated over hie elevated seat reaohcd by a flight of stairs, d0sire for justioe and fRir play. He found and in the open air, not the bema within he hnd gone too far. &me oommentatore the Praito…
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moclltio11Uon of the toxt from /l,pm 6~ &.-,1 than either the Talmud or Ma.imonidcs (of. f.,,,,, of 'l'.R. to &pa. ,Iv If,, g.,,, 11,1 whioh may Mark xiii, 85; Luke xii. 88; Matt. xx. eutfer the reading of Lo.nge (" es war gegen 8, 4), and that the synoptic narrative <lie "), "it we.a going on towards the sixth reokon…
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wormwood to them, cried, with ffaehing all hie claime ; becanae they wished that the llDg<'r, BhRll I oruoify your King, Thie supreme court, the heathen and corrupting wrung forth from them a cry whioh expreBsed power, ahould dash down to earth and defile the uttermost nnd baeeet abA.ndonment of this idol of some of…
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drngged Into tl1e rneh or the vocirerating in the north-western qno.rter of the city, not crowd, the eynoptio Dflrmlive beoomee fe.r fnr from the gate of Dtlmascns; and endles~ fn11er In detail. Tho torriblo tragedy in- diecnesions have prevo.iled with respect to oludoe the disrobing. Tho bleeding form the line of the …
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,..-hioh susti,ins the probability th&t it is the naile to the wood. A ,edi"le WBS BrrBnged l,omh onco hallowed by the most stupendous to bear a portion of the weight of the body ,,r<>ni in tbe history of the world. Bobineon which would never have been 1u1t&ined by snid, "The place wae probably upon a great the gt\J…
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Ver. 19.-The evo.ngelist turns to nn event times in this Gospel and twice in the of whloh tho synoptiste say little, nnd quietly Revelo.tion, and nowhere else in the New attribute to the Jews themselves. John, Testament. Codex B reads 'P.,µ.a.'i,n, first. from the speoie.l access whioh he had to ThA Latin form of the t…
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g'IITC wny to the indomitable t.Emper of verbial fonn)-woven, possibly, by the which Philo nC'rnsl'B him. He fonnd grim m?ther who loved him, and cormipon ling entiefaction in inenlting and browooMing With the dross of the priests. Reim and them for e. moment, •o -yl-y,,a.,p.., ,,1,,,,a<1>a. Thorne. see here "a symb…
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Imperfectly, John ndde wb&t oome nnder enough to meet o.11 tho ca.,e? lfos ho nnt hie own eye, explnine their inadequu.te re- been offered up as certainly as fae.ao WM preeentation of the "lot," and dieoeme the when Abraham bound his BOD upon tho Yerita.blo fulfllmont of the propheoy. The altar? Could he not, might …
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Ver. 25.-But tbero were Btanding by the no.rmtive from l>egiuningto end is Illumined oroRe of J'e9'11s. MRtthew say& (xxvii. 55; by the fa.et that ,lohn wae tho near relRtive or Jlfn, k xv. 40, 41) t hRt many women stood JeBue. The B• i,-ydll'CI flRehee into light Rnd s(nr off heholding theBe things, and amongst juatif…
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He gem, e. mother to his de1uest friend. Ila foll of vinegar, proba.hly for the nR'l of the gave e. son moe\/reoious to the bereaved soldiers, a.nd occ~Rionally offorod to thn and desolBte e.n broken heart of hie sufferers to soothe a part or their torment. widowed mother. Inoonceive.ble thBt Weisse John cleerly aRsooi…
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ite two cnnetltnente, w11e time libern.ted from the highest 11nrl 1111reRt kinr:1 of witnn~•, the perioardium-a phonOllDenou tho.t might that of direct obRAn,ition, ataggering, con- eeom to justify the supposition of the founding the ordinary acnee, but proving ovangelist, tb11t it was blood e.nd wnter. tho.t the So…
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