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The Pulpit Commentary — Luke — Volume 1
Henry Donald Maurice Spence [1836–1917] · 342,562 words · 357 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Luke — Volume 1 — Section 1
THE PULPIT COMMENTARY, EDITED BY THE VERY REV. H. D. M. SPENCE. D.D., DEAN OP GLOUCESTER; AND BY THE REV. JOSEPH S. EXELL, M.A. WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY THE VERY REV. F. W. FARR.AR, D.D., F.R.S., DE.AN OF CANTERBURY, RIGHT REV. H. COTTERILL, D.D., F.R.S.E. VERY REV. PRINCIPAL J. TULLOCH, D.D. REV. CANON G. RA…
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derived for the most part, he tells ue, from certain written recorris whioh, he said, rested on apostolio authority, and were used and read in the publio assemblies of Christiane. He never quotes these records by name, but refers to them simply as "memoirs of the apostles " ( &1rop.V1Jp.onvµn:ra Twv &1rouT6MJJv); two o…
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1Jc>C'nnd century, according t.o Theodoret, used the Gospels, especially ehat of St. J_,1,ke. in his system of theology.1 Basilidcs was one of the earliest Gnost.ics, wl10 taught at Alexandria about A.n. 120. Ile thus lived on the verge of the apostolic times. His testimony to the acknowledged books in the canon of t…
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near the apostolio age," and which the best modern scholars generally conceive to have been put out some time between A,D, 100 and A.D. 120, it is evident that muoh of the New Testament canon was known to the -writer, who w0a,es into the tapestry of his work many of the New Testa- ment thoughts and expressions, a.nd…
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discourses whioh they had listened to by the lake, in the eynagogue11 of Capernaum, in the temple courts; some spoken to t,hem alone in oompara- tive solitude, some addressed to curious and even hostile crowds in the days of the public ministry. At first, for many months, poeeibly for years, there was little, or ev…
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ranges himself on the same platform with these earlioretudente and writeni of the Divine story. The truth probably was that these writings to whioh he refers were inoomplete portions rather than a whole. To BUm up, when St. Luke undertook hie great work there wae probably current, in the Churches in which he lived a…
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Rethll'born are ad.led. The olose of the Aots shows tll! the foundation or the Church at Rome; but Rome waa but a branch, an offshoot, of the great Chnrohes of Antiooh and Jernsalem. St. Luke traoee the various stages in tbi11 development-from Bethlehem to Nazareth, from Nazareth to Capernanm, from Capernaum to the…
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dilfL'rence between the fundamental doctrines taught in this Go~pel and those laid down in the first, the second, and the fourth. We believe 11imply that in St. Luke-and the Epistles of St. Paul repeat the teaohing -the universality of Christ's promises are more distinctly marked; the invitations to the careless, t…
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that the author of the Third Goepel was identical with the writer of the Acts, and that this pel"8on was th..e St. Luke well known in the days of the beginnings of Christianity &s the oompanion and friend of St. Paul. Most of these early referenoes in some form or other conneot St.. Luke's work "'ith St. Paul. Amo…
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stat.e from Crosl\rea to lfomo, St.. Luke again evidently was with him; for throughout the voyaµ:e which ended in the memorable shipwreck and the 1mhs<'qnent 1St.ay at Melita, and on 1he voyage from Melita in the ship of Alexand1ia, we find the forms "we" and" us" used: "Then when we came t.o Rome;" "when the brethren…
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applying remedies, et-0. Dr. Hobart quotes Galen, • Metb. Med.,' ix. •• and other well-known Greek medioal writers in support of this. As we Bhould expect from the physician-evangelist, in the acoounts of tlie miracles of healing medical language is carefully employed. In many pa.ra.llel pa.sea.gee St. Luke will be f…
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midst-the men whe h11d eron the presenoe Ohrist nre not, ns eome hnvo supposed, &nd hr11rd the voice. When the first fervour 11ll11tlvd t? horo with anything like cemure, of enthusiRsrn h11,d p11ssed away, or rather but llre simply roferred to ne boing inco1n• when tho Chur.:ih had so multiplied th11t, plete,-11s w,…
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or the e.postlce' pTee.ohlng e.n,I tcn.ching, ll'\Slllt or hia own invr·•tigl\linn intr> lhP- -does not go furthcT' back than I hllae origin of the fnith or f:lirist,. g:i11,rrcrl pr,.,h- ,•vents. St. Lulrn g11ve Tlieophilns, among o.hly from the lips nr til~ virc::i11 m,,llirr othoT' onrly <lotntle, a l,iAl,ory of the…
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picturesqueneRa of imRgory; tlw style is u1tlly "a daily service." It "&9 suhoequently simple, oasy, vivid; but at onoe the rcadtJr used for e. group of priests who exercised is seusible tliat he ho.s po.ssc<I out of tl,e their priestly functions in the temple for a weclc, 11nd then gave plBce to another group. regiou…
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Ver. 15.-0ree.t in the sight of the Lord. Herod and hie friends; the sons, on the other To the pious olu Jewish priest the etmnge hand, being Zealots attached to the national visitant's words would bear a deep eignifl- party, bitterly hostile to the Herodians. ca.tion. Za.cbarias would quickly CLLtch the So also in one…
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xii. 1). Of these two blessed spirite whl'>se gr<'gation, told the awestruck people that names are revcl\led to ns in the Word of the long delay and the loss nf speech were God. their Rppointed work seems to be in owing to no sudden illueee which he.d seized connretion with the hum1<n re.co and its Zacharias. We know t…
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If these were true, surely nevor mo.n had reth, we.a able to coase to be born of her worked liko this Mo.n, They had he1Lrd, too, that holy thing which was called the Son of the crowning sign of the Itesurroctioo. of God. There were men in those first days, scat- Ver. 26.-A.nd in the Bixth month; the.t is, tered o.br…
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Hebrew girl WB8 a desoend1mt of Davi.-!. In throne of Dl\vid, of a kingdom In Jacob to re•peot to the virgin's family, we read th,,t which ehould con1e no en,!. The people, she was a couein or kinswoman of Elisabeth. through all the ohl\niiing fortune of crupil'es, Thie would at least ally her closely to the have be…
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In the bnckgronnil Mo.r:v enbmitted herself the mighty f,,rernnner of the King or whom or lwr own free will to what sho felt we.a the the prophets had written I will 1111cl wish of her Goel. Ver. 43.-And whence is this to me, that Ver B!J.-Me.ry arose in thoH days, and the mother of my Lord should come to me 1 wont…
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PRnl, she n!'erlP<l. no pRrchment scroll, but w)licl\ God's Pf?tecting Spirit was shining ~0ftly r<'penfC'•l t0 the chrm1ielor of the with so clear a !tght. She e1\\V eomrthing of Di'rine story the ol,l song in which she hRd the g:reRt redemption myAtcry which wna first told lwr deep irnRginin~ to ElieR- then m so s…
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thrn wonhl be the destiny of this child. grent pioneer or Christ le briefly sketciieil Coul,l it be Umt he wae the promised out; in it all, anil through it all, tbore wB, lllea•iuh? one guiding hand-the Lord's. The ex- Ver. ~9.-0n the eighth de.y they ce.me pression, " hand of the Lord," we.,, pccn- to ciroumoise t…
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t.l1eir helmch: but tn the horns nf ll l~11l-in oh, jny 11n,lrcRmed of! - Is to bo ranked whi<'h the <'hief power of this nnimlll resides. e.mong the glorioua company of the prophets This wn•" figure espooinlly fRmili,u amo11g of the Highest. Rll R!!'l'i<'ul!urnl folk like the lsrRelit<>s. "A Ver. 77.-To give knowle…
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■trong In aplrlt. We have here another of birth are rele.ted so oiroometantia.lly in this BI. Luko'e eolemn. pe.ueee in hie ne.rmtive opening che.pter of St. Lake's Goepel. Mary, -one of thoee little pe.eeagee in which, in whose" memories," we believe, are recounted e. fow worcle, he ects before ue e. picture almoet in…
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"Vers. 5-23.-Zuharias and hi'~ vi.sion. Notice some features in the sketch that is given of the priest and of that which happened at the altar of incense. I. IT IS A PICTURE OF THE SOUL WAITING FOR GoD. That waiting which is empha- sized in the Old Testament Scriptures as one of the e~sentials of piety. How beautifu…
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IV. Finally, THE PUNISHMENT RE0ORDED IS ONE OJ.I' MANY WARNINGS IN ScRTPTC"llE AGAINST '!'HE UNDELIEJ.1' WHIOH WOULD LlMIT THE HOLY ONE OF lHRAEL. "Huw C<\11 these things be?" "Whereby I shall know this?" a.re que8ticms ever ri,in'.; in the heart Thu good priest had waited long. When expectation failed, lie bow,:d \,is…
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tieginn~ of the l1111t clBuse, bidding ns eee in the et&tement which precede■ ihe reaaon of the Bssertion whioh follows. The statement ill that the Holy Gho■ t 1houlci eDCl'lllll tJie motbt!l'--therefore the holineBB of the Lord. Mark, the difference between Christ's h,,liness and ours is not in kind : it is in tbie…
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gladness with Lhe emotion ancl experience of the Church; the same losing of self in the sense of an unspenknble loving-kindness; the same boasting in the Lord as he who "fills the hungry with good things, and sends the rich empty away." Mary WB-9 familiar with this song. Her thought would naturally take shape in uttera…
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called Jolin." "John? No relatb·e is called by this name I WhRt shall the father ilccide?" Then, to the amazement of all, the writing on the slate, " His name i1 John." It was the 11,ngel name; it was the Divine name, Note: God the Father in heaven has his special name-giving (see Rev. ii. 17), Blessed-oh, how bless…
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cl,-nr thnt Jcsns Christ rogarcled himRelf ns One that was here on the highest mi~sion, ns One that wns very fnr removed above ordinary manhood. He felt that he stoon in o rolntion to the humnn rnce that was not only unusual, but unique. Otherwise he could not hnve spoken of "giving his flesh for the life of the world…
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these two faithful eouls obeyed enjoined the one aa well as the other. And no hum1\Il life ia co1?ple~ which doee ~ot inc~ude both. thes_e eleme?ta of piety. 1. The. worship of God, rn pnvate prayer, lil family devotion, lil public exercises la a eenous and im1;10rtant part of a good man's experi~nce. 2. And certainly …
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told by the celesti11I messenger th11t her Son should be" great." There can be no do11ht tli11t, nfter all thot was thun BRi,I, Mary expected unnsually great things of the Chi!,! th,Lt should be born of her, But how very far short of the fact her highest hopes Lavo proved to be I For to whatever exalted point they r…
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who ehoul<l render t-0 hie people eorvicee of ~urpMsing value; no wonder that her "spirit rejoiced" in euch II prospect. 3. Calculated to call forth all that was highest a11d worthiest in her nature. She would h11ve to cherish and to roar, to teach and to train, th11t illuetrious Son who should call her "mother." 4.…
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of his Rou, who illustralerl all purity and condomoe<l Bl! iniquity; In (3) the death uf hie Son, who by the sncrifice of himaelf uttered God's thought Bn<l feeling Bbout sin as nothing else oould speak it, and struck it such a death-blow 81! nothing else could strike it. III. His DIVINE MERCY. (Ver. 60.) Many are the…
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Vera. 74, 75.-The ooune of the <Jhristian life. These words of Zacharias will very well indicate the course through which a Christian life passes from its commencement to its close. I. IT BEGINS IN SPIRITUAL E:MANOIPATI01', uwe being delivered out of the hand of our enemies." In order to "walk in newness of life," …
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all that iB equitable; endeavouring to do and to promote that which iR just in all the rolntions in which we strmd to others, or they to one another. 3. Piety; d,1ing every right thing as unto (J/iriBt our Lord; living consciously "before him;" so that all our rectiluclo of heart and excellency of behaviour is somethin…
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Ver. 79.-<Jhrist our Peace. "To guide our feet into the way of peace." And how far has the mission of the Dayspring succeeded? How far haa he guided the feet of men into the way of peace? Judged by the outward appearance, the answer would be q~it~ unsatisfactory. To-da_y, after eighteen centuries of Christianity, th…
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deeper voices that speak to us, for its perpettrn.l sound ie in our ear-the hum of its activity, the rattlo of its pleasures, the wail of its distress. Solitude would render an essenUal service if we would but ensure it and employ it. I. THE SERVICE~ SOLITUDE WOULD RENDER UB. 1. It would bring God near tn us. When m1m…
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I. THE CRRIBTIAN FAI'T'H 18 NOT A sPECUI,ATIVE SYSTEM. Man, left to hlmBeJr, Pvolves out of his con~ciousness e. system more or less complete, e.nd calls upon his fellt,ws to accept of it e.s their rdigious fe.ith, But such e.n evolution of rel.igion has proved e. failure. Into the interesting study of comparative r…
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eclence. 1 Now, Jesus suppliBR us, in his own perfect and sinlee~ PerRon, with the" ideal" we individunlly ncod to ~atisfy the cravings nod longings of the heart. He is, in fact, "altogether lovely." So that by his realized Personality we are saved from occupation with a pure abstraction, callud the "absolute," and the…
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not he mennt thnt they were ~inlessly perfect, especially siuce in such a case the ritual through. which tlic:r :egularly p11s~ed would have been strangely unmeaning. They IYerc a p1011R, G,1d~<•rtrmg _pair, w11lkmg before the Lord, and striving to be perfect, And here 11·c may draw 11tt.cnt1011 to the advantage Joh…
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sin, nnd thus prepo.re them for the advent of the Saviour. No father ever got a more mngnificent future laid before hie son. 'fhe ang-,1 sketched a destiny which was fitted to make the old priest glad. v. UNBELIEF' INBIBTING ON .l FURTHER SIGN. The appearance of Gahriel, the trans- parent honesty of his words, the hol…
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incense. He WA.• in "the holy pliu,e," on the threshold of" the hol-' of holies." But now, by WRY of contrRst, he repRirs to NRzareth, that city of Galilee ao hidden In the hill~ thRt Rli who for VRrious reRsons needed a hiding-place resorted thither. ft wns 11 rendezvous for the worst of people, e.nd beca.me prover…
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her proposed m11rriago with ,Joseph? or WIMI she to break with him? or w11s she t0 rlo nothing but wait? Gabriel directs her to wait passively in God's be.ads, and all he h11s promised will come supernaturally Rbout. Just as the Spirit overshadowed the old chaotic world, 11nd brought the c<>smos out of it, so would …
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was the" cbiPf joy" of human hearts &llllerting hie marvellous power, The Holy Ghost conducts the humble womRn to t.he most entrancing joy. 4. Mary's faith~ recognized. and encour.1ged, The contrast between MRry's faith and Zacbarias's doubt must have ~en ver~ mRrked. The poor pri~t is stealing about_ the house dumb…
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we hBve before us two lowly women, deep In their self-abasement. The self-righteous Apirit hBB been annihilated within them, and they are thus fitted to be God's instru- mouts, Secondly, we find them maintaining this beautiful spirit after they have become the special objects of the Divine favour. Grace does not spoil …
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enemies and all that hate the pc-ople or the Lord. In other words, the inspired priest looks and longe for a flational deliverance. And the true pattiot can long for nothing les11. 'l'he blessing which he prail!OII God for on hi1 own account, he desires for all his race. At the same time, it is to be noticed that it…
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EXPOSITION. OHAPTER II. recies of Bl Luke, It may be obeerved: (1) Stra.ngelyenough,1101M ·ofthe early opponents Vera. 1-20.-The Redeemer', birth. of Christianity, 11Uch ns Celsus or Porphyry, Ver. 1.-There went out 11, deoree trom impugn the accnrBOy of our evangelist here. :J111sar Augustus, that all the world a…
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The older 11.1:1thoritie1 here omit "wife." 8Rviour or the world? It seems BB though Tmnsl&te, tDith Maf'JI who wa, belrotMd eo this very humble order Wl\s eclectcd e.s a him. pmctical illustmtion or that whioh in the Ver. 6.-The days were aooomplished th&t future history of Chrietinuity wne to bo BO ■he should be …
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Ver. 12,-Lying JI a manger. Thie wBe Good will toward men. A be.re mojority of to be the sign. On that night there would, the old authorities read here, "On eRrtb perhBps, be no other ohi!Jren born in the peace among mon of good will; " in other Dell1lehem village: oertainly the shepherds words, among men who are th…
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l'rutome, willingly obedient to the.t Divine the Dabe shining like 8 pill&r of light In Law un<ler whioh ahe wu born e.nd hitheroo hie mother's e.rms. There is an ohl l\nd he.d lived. striking legend which speaks of this devout Ver. 22.-When the de.YI of her purifloa- Jew being long puzzled and disturbed by tion ao…
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position e.nd lel\rning, should possess so Vera. :16-38.-Greeting of Anna the pro- deep on insight into the lofty destinies of phele,s. an nnknown Infant, brought by evidently Ver. 36.-There wae one Anna, e. pro- poor parents into the temple court. Was phetess. The name of this h,,Iy woman is their secret then known to…
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as we bRve it. Wl\9 not then written-that e11.11tom of the feast. When I\ Jewish boy thPB<' ,ktn.ils. tbo ,·isit or tbo MRgi and WIU! three years old he wl\s given the tRa- the flight into Egypt, were facts already aelled garment directed by the LRw(Numb, well known to those whom this Gospel wu xv. 88-41: Dent. xxii…
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three dnys," probably means "on tho third reaching answer? Whnt forger conk! hove dny." 0110 dny w11s consumed in the nsuril imngined sue h a verso ? short pilgrim-journoy. Hie absence at first Ver. 19.-How is it that ye sought me l wouhl oxoite no nltontion; on tho second, To tho gently veiled reproach of ~fory, ns th…
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wrnn~ or in dfLnger" - this reoitft.1 11lone a~ln her Bon'1 u1.ylng11 In he, hurt, waiting hreRk• the d,•op silonoe whioh shroude the with brave l'nd con1tant pnUonco for the flr,t thirty years of" the Life." l<'or eome honr when her God ahould grant her to see eii:rhtcen yeani after that visit to Jeruealom faoe to fac…
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go to the Inn-the klio.n or cruBva11Horni? (Aeo Frirrar'H sketch of th11l strange shelter for man and boo.et,) llut the inn is full. '!'here is no place in it for e11ch na they. 'l'he nocoe~ity la urgent. And thuir refuge--eo a tradition menti,med hy ,J UH tin Martyr eBye-is a groUo or cave in the limestone rook on whi…
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Vers. 21-38.-The circumcuion and presentation ln the ~pk. I. THE oraou111- CISION. With regard to the ,circumcision, observe : 1. The Son of God is not only "made of a woman," be is "made under the Law." He is entered into all the requirements and circumstances of the covenant "with Abraham and his seed." The apostl…
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Rt lenst, there le no dwelling on the importo.nce of those through wl,om the homage le shown. The tribute of tbo human heart is sufficient for the Son of man. Of this man we know nothing more than ie told ue by St. Luke. His name is Simeon. Ha ls (vor. 26) "ri~hteous o.nd devout, one of those who looked for the consola…
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Vers. 39-52.-The chi?dhood and the waiting-time. Before the age of twelve, nothing is told. In modern biographies, all kinds of traits, incidents, forecasts of the man in the child, a.re mentioned. The Apocryphal Gospels fall in with this custom. God's tbou~hts a.re not our thoughts. The child-life of "the Lord's Cl…
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1111 right Influences, e.s that the tre.nsition from childhoo<l to youth shall be marked by e. new glanoe upward, e. loving e.nd earnest "My Father" I II. Further, NOTJll THE SUPREME INTEREST OJ' THE Llll'E, It mRtt.ers not whether we rm\<l "a.bout my Father's business" or " in my Father's house ; " the idea is tho s…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ver. 7.-(Jhrist eru'luded. Little did the occupants of that inn at Bethlehem imagine who it was they were turning away when Joseph and Mary sought admission there. They did not realize, for they did not know, whom they were excluding. Practically they were declining to receive, not only…
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