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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 61
IV. FnoM TTIPJ HAIIIT OF THEIR LIFE. Of all those who exclude Jesus Christ, the most numerous nnd perhaps the guiltiest are they who, rocognizing his claimA and his powers, refuse to welcome him to their hearts. Their lives a.re so crowded with cares, with tho business of the market or of the household; or they a.re RO…
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l11we Rought to rule oul'l!e!ves and to be the mR~tera of our own lives, &nd who have ~uffered so much in ~0 mRny ways by this guilty det.hronement Rlld ueurpe.tlon, are now to find our true rest. 11n,l joy by submitting oumeh,es tn him who ie II the Lord" of all hearts and li,•es; in hie service is abiding peRce and" …
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tbo issuo of it. Doubtless the hope that was in her purified her heart as so sacred 11 hope would do (1 John iii. 3), and made her life a lifo of reverence and prayer. It was good for her to think much of the purpose God was about to 11cc11mplish throucrh hor instrumentality; sbe would be the better fitted for that ho…
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h, his w,ice, he exchims," Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace .. , for mine e)"<'s l1Rve ~ccr. thy Salvation." Lile has now no ungranted good fo~ him to B"·ait. _The la~t and dearest wish of his he~rt has been fulfilled; willingly would ho now c]ogc hrn ~yes tn lho sleep of death; gladly would he now…
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and moved amongst men, then it became clear tb11t those who were ignorantly supposed to ho blind were the souls that were se~ing God(" that they who see not might see"), 11n<I equally clear that those who cl111med to know everything had eyes that wero fastened against the light (" that they who see might be made blind"…
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Ver. 49.-The daw11, of sacred duty: a sermon to the you11,g. "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" There comes a time in our history-usually in the days of later youth or early manhood-when all things begin to wear a more serious aspect to ns; when "the powers of the world to come" arrest us; when…
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consecration; it will then prove to be a time for ( 4) true and lasting joy (Ps. cviii. 1).-0. Vera. 61, 52.-Growth, owr Lord'a and owr own. The growth of Jesll8 Christ an<l hie subjection to his parents teach ua Bl)me things respecting him, and they sug<rest 0 some things for our own guidance. I. THE 0H0WTB OF Jgs…
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\\-hen lo I Augustna, the heathen emperor l\t Rome, demands a census, and the Jewish 'Rmilies must enrol tbl'mselves at the tribal cities. This simple circumstance, whose :•urpo~e was the levy of men or the levy of money, brought Mary to Ilethlebem In time to b('come, in the appointed ple.ce, the mother of the Lord.…
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their absence; but the'.\" r~solve to run the riAk H they can see the Siwionr. " Never venture, never win." Hence t.hey came with baste to Mary, and gaze with raptuM on her Ohilrl. '!'hey see 1md believe. They are ready to accept this "little Chil,I" aA tbe Saviour of the world. A Iii tie Child wa~ leading them I Next …
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lf be bad undertaken any service about the temple as the Levites and priests dicl. In a word, the Messiah could not well have come, like the Baptist, from the tribe of Levi, but it was better be should belong to one which was not bound to the altar. And her~ we n~ust n_otice as_ a practical ~int tb~t the _claim made…
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way to It, and It could not have been justly denied him. TI le human race was no lon:;er in the Father's sight utterly depraved. A redeeming feature bad appeared in the person of the holy Child Jesus in Nazareth. God's attitude tow!!.rds the world w!!.s thereby nlterod, and justly so. There are persons who give a halo …
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who trneted in him. And thiR generl\l ide" of fatherhood becl\me specialized In his deep, reverential musings, and he could not but feel towards God as no Jew had ever felt. before. 1 Wheth~r he had &a " Child the further revelation yet made to him of his peculiar rdation t.o God 118 the Only Begotten, or rBllched t…
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EXPOSITION. loco.I rulers, who, among many other locali- CHAPTER Ill. ties, renam~d the La.ke of Galilee, where Vera. 1-22.-TBE BAPTISM OIi' Joim. so many of the scenes narrated in our story Ver. 1.-Now in the fifteenth year of the took place, "the Sea. of Tiberius." The reign of Tiberius C!Esar. St. Luke's Goepel …
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pri,•at, AnnRe. hRving been depnecd eorne realm ruled over by the son of JeBSe and hl1 Htoon yr&ro prnvionsly by the ll<'tion of the greater son, was the ideal dreamed of by the then Rom&n pro~nr1ttor, ValPrius Gratus. Hebrew. In the long period of misfortune Jn spite of t.his offici&l deposition, he still which SUC…
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cation; for Joh11'e b11pti~m wae nothing exiat are often in I\ bad ,tu.ta, wh,·n a anve- more. Now, bnptism, it is clear, was not 1Lt r,·ign ie about to vii<it any P"rt of hi, this time prnctieod nmm,g the Jews. It w"s dnminions, or still more if the march of"'' not, ae for as we can trace, even used in the 11.rmy h…
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!looked in great nnmbel"I! to his baptism. Abrahnm;" "And if ye P>e Ohrist'e, thc-n They were alarmed a.11d disturbed a.t hia e.re ye Abrnham's seed, nud heirs according preaching; they feared that that drear time to the promise" (Ge.I. iii. 7, 29). of awful suffering, generally known RB the Ver. 9.-And now also the…
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tents lhe duly or unselfishness, the berrnty of little moment whether they were legion- of quiet generosity in the sight of God. aries of Rome, or mercenaries in the PEif The whole tcnching of this eminent mnn of one of the tetrarchs or neighbouri11"' or God wns thorougllly pru.cticE1l. His pre- princeR. Tho leBBon is …
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altar and ,,.Id on the mouth of Isaiah 1he nntl1ing lhe pee.sants conl,l do woultl arrest Jll"Opi,et (hll vi 6, 7). "With fire," writes tlw swift work or the dovouring llamo. All Biahor Wordsworth, "to purify, illumine, that is hero Mid of the eondomncd is that transform, inflllme with holy fervour and lh,,y will be…
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l"ter prophet& So in this, the tnnsition on the official roll) pl\pere with the namee period of MPssiah, the visible glory of God of their parents aud their l\nceatore; these and the "ndible voioe of God were again !een and heard by mortal man. Jerome papers are formally witncesod." oalle attention here to the dist…
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(I) Bt. Lnke felt lhRt this wa1 the most emin,ml mn<lorn sd1nbn whn ncr,~pt it, I l!llifoble plo.ce in his narrative for 1uch a wonld instance Professor Go<let an<l Denn table. His work w111 cvidenUy most care- Plumptre. The arguments in favour or fully and ekil fully arranged npon the line■ this view-viz. that the gen…
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HOMILETICS. Vere. 1-18--7"he forerunner, and his ministry. Some thirty years have passed since the birth of a son of the old age had filled the house of the good priest Zacharias with the voice of rejoicing. The blameless priest and his blameless wife are dood. The son who, when an unconscious babe, was called "the…
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wildcmcse." But the rosulte decforcd-tbe 6lling of every nlley, the bringing low •>f every mountain and bill, etc.-seem too va.~t as a representation of the effect of Jobn's cry. lteB<lini Ie11iab'e sentences we im11gine a work with inspiring circumstances, with grnnd, striking evidences of its e.cco111pli.ehment; t…
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bring p<'rs0ns inrli,iduRlly fsce to fsce with the.t need, e.nd one of two th!Bae follow- eit her the r!'siRt11noe 0f the heart to condemnation, or the conviction of the soul to ~Rlvati,,n. Have we not far too little of the preaching of" repentance for the remission of sins"? Mark this: There can be no real sending …
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ln_g this shape. What of the descent of the Hol) Ghost? Observe it (1) as between Christ himself and the opened heavens, and (2) B8 a token of the grace and truth which have come by Christ. 1. What we have before us is not a coming of the Spirit for personal holiness, for in this sense the Holy Spirit had been with …
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~ists' ~tory that. _he waR a m,m, n-,t l~deed without some eon8e of juatloe and pity, not lll<'Apable of hemg _moved a~ the sigh~ of ~ublim_e. patieuce and innocence, but yet fccpt1cnl, supi,rst1t1ous,_ entrrely wantmg m political principle, ready to eacri.ll.ce n~hteousness to ~a,·e _his ~wn position_. . Of Herod Anti…
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oiJers to render to us. We cannot rejoice in him as in our Divine Saviour, rencemin~ us from the penalty and the curse of sin, until we have known and felt our own unworthiness an<l wrong-doing. 1. This is the scriptural doctrine. O11r Lor<l, before he loft hie apostles, instructed them to preach "repentance an,l remih…
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Vere. 8-14.-TJ,e Jitti1e in religiM, d4. In these verses we have brought Into view four aspects of religious truth. I. THE FUTILE. The Pharisee, H he were charged with any evil course, consoled hi'?1~elf _with the thought tha~ he Wa.'! & "son of Abraham;" to his mind it was every- thing wJt.h God that he was lineal…
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~tood prosperity better than a,lversit_y (see Matt. xi. 2, 3). He does not appear to have wavered for a moment in his fidelity to the Lord whose way be came to prep!lre; be alwa.ye retained a true estimate of himself, hie work, and his Master. lo thw respect he we.s as wise e.s he we.s true, and we cannot do better t…
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Vere. 1-20.-77ie ministry of the Baptist. We left Jesus, when last we studied Luke's narrative, in Nazareth, subject to his parents and realizing a gracious develop- ment in subjection. We have now to pass over about eighteen years, of which we know only that during them he had become a carpenter (cf. Mark vi. 3), t…
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the mountllin9, the ex!lltcd and proud; the crooked, the tortuous in Rin; the rongli ways, tile rugged and uncouth in nature. All the~e classeR, throngh ,John's preachi11g, are to be prepared for a sight of God's salvation in the Person of Messiah. How, then, did John try to prepare his generation for Jesus? By "preach…
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V. THE ~Al'Tl8T's .~IISS!ON _WAS BUT A PROMIRR OF A RETTER DAM'ISlf, (Vert. 16-18.) ,, hen Johns preaching haJ proved so succeBBful, the people began to wonder if he were not Messinh himself; e.nd then it WM the.t he declined leadership and spoke of a greater Leader and a fe.r more important baptism. So great was hi…
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great work. 1 It was not only II rPsponse to the Father's call to enter upon his peculiar Messianio work, a.a Weise in hie• Leben Jesu' hllS very properly suggested, but als" a deliberate assumption of the responsibilities of sinners. Hence it hBB been suppose,.; that, as the ordinary candidates for baptism confessed t…
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Rnd dirC1ct\y t.o ,fosus. Bntb l1carers wore <lonbtle~s rrgimled in the paternal communl• cation. Now, when we consider e.11 that Jesus hnd undertaken In accepting bnptism, he Furely bf\d a right to this essnrance, that as a Son he WI\B well-pleflsing in all bis con~ecrRt.('d life to the Father. It was upon this he …
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1lran~ epleode In the life 11 very ehort, thnt account it was not the loss real e.ml but hrmnonizee perfeclly with the longer true. acoounte of SS. Matthew and Luke. St. Nor is it by e.ny means a solitary expe- John omits it o.ltogether; flret, becauee, with rience, this living, beholding, listening, e.nrl the earlier …
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pnss out of the spiritual sphere, it was none Authorized Version eeems to prefer, but tho less r,•al, and the value of the victorv do!iver~nce from the power of some migltty waB none the leRR incalonlable and deciBive_;, enl bemg-. And In tbo&e days he did eat nothing. In thie state of ccstnsy, when tho Ver. 1.-A.n…
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the ldngdoma of the world in a moment of In St. Mo.tthew Jerusalem is he1'e oe.llcd time, 'l'his tempte.tion was something more "the holy city," e. ne.me still prcsP-rvod in th,m "offering to Ono who ha.d lived as & tl,e East, where it is still termed El-Khuds, villngo carpenter the throne of the world." the holy. Pinn…
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he<>n s~qu&intcd. The m&xims e.nd proorpte 1111ff'ering, no p11n11ulon howevor akilf'nlly of Deuteronomy were ueed in tile eduolltion worded, no sophistry however plausible, of e'l"cry Hebrew child. lte de'\"out llnd must be sufficient to turn him. He departed beautiful mnime were written on the phy- from him for a …
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goguee, being glorified of all. Hie miracles, Ver. 18.-The Spirit of the Lord is upon his words touching and. eloquent, perhaps me. St. Luko here '}Holes, with a fow 11n- too a dim memory of marvde whi,·h had important vari11tione, from the LXX. nf Isa. hnpponorl years before e.t hie birth, eho,l bi. I, 2. The ch1uso, …
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thP Law (tl>e five boob of Mc>BeB) e.nd the chosen people---of the Ji,we, who as a nation roll• of th ~ prophets. he knew too well would not acoopt him. Yer. 22.-And they 118.id, I■ not thi1 Hut if Israel would have none of him, he 1oseph's Bon T Quickly the pl'e8Cher oought would reign in the hearts of that unnum- …
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BBrily e. mJroole. There ii nothing hinted on the lake-shore, are generally believed to horo thcit our Lord rendered himself in- be the remains of the once rich and populous visible, or thcit he smote hie enemies with e. Capern:mm. And taught them on the Sab- tompomry blindness. He probably quietly bath days. ovomwed …
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11oods to giv<' a deb,ilcd ac!'onnt of the w11y as possessed by devils whioh really hru:I no in which one •Rbb11th dRy w11e spent, no existence BRVe in im11gination-is not only doubt intending ne to understand it as R quite foreign to the tr11nspare11tly trnthful specimen of the ('Tdin11ry e11bbath-d11y work chl\rac…
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alone," la srnrccly the impora.tive of M.w, but oure of the revor n( 8irnon's wifo'a mothn, nn interjection, po88ibly the Greek repro• we know was rapidly nni•erl ahroo.rl, anrl in duction of the Hebrew r:im,, ah! woe I '£here greo.t meo.sure a.ccoun ted for the crr>wrls whn wna evidently some deepa"°r' degree of miser…
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known, be could not know, this kind of trial. Now is to come the first dlatinc, experience or the devil's power. God-may we IIO say ?-carried him away ftom the eccne of the baptism and the opened heavens and the Divine voice, and prcsonted him to Sat1m, the prinoe of,~he pow~r of the air:" This.is my beloved Son: pu…
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points or regions of the temptation recorded. The order is slightly different in the accounts of St. Mauhew and St. Luke. That which is third in the one is second in the other, reminding us that too much stress is not to be laid on the mere sequence of the story. The first trial had reference to the urgont neec); it ca…
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9penly th1m do onr kindred or those directly related to us. What is rl\r-fetched is fn,qucntly more esteemed than what is home-hred, Nevertheless, the duty is to witness for God to the circle \\ hich encloses our tenderest associations. Yes, even to repeat. Rnd repeat our mes~age, and thus deliver our own soul. II. IT…
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sets before ue one of the eabbath dnye of thie early Ga.Iilruan period, and bide ue note tho use mnde of the eabbath by the Son of man, who was also its Lord. He takea us to the eyn11gogue, no doubt crowded by an expectant throng of fishermen, farmers, masters rmd workmen of busy Gennesareth. Jesus is the Teacher; and,…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1, 2 (first part).-Solitude and strugqle. We are not to suppose, even though we read tbis sta.tement as given by Matthew (iv. 1), that our Lord was led by the Spirit into the wilderness for the express purpose of being tempted by the evil one : to take that view would be to mistak…
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to look too much to our own feelingA, o.nd to dwell too little on the goodneee and the lovo of God; e.lso 11s to (2) our own reputation, and the eetimati()n in which we are held 11mong men. 2. Exce6,9ive disappointment and co,1sequent dieheartenment con- oerning (1) the life we e.re living before God; (2) the work we a…
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Yers. 6--8.-'l'emJ>la.tion: oittw,.-,·d and inwai·d gmnJwr. Of course !item! exoot- ncs.s is nC'CeBAArily excluded here; we must look for, and shall hnvo n~ difficulty in finding, the sense and spirit of the words. We will look Rt- I. 'l'HE APPEAL THAT WAS MADE TO oUB Lonn, and the correspondin~ attack that i8 made…
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there must bo a long, laborious r,roccss, by which the ju<lgment and the conscience of mankind would be convinced. There would be fatal folly in an endeavour to force an issue. 'l'here would bo Divine wis<lom in "beginning at the beginning," in gradually working onwards, in toiling upwards amid fatigues and sorrows unt…
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I. Tm: nnoKEN IIUMAN HEART. There are two thing~ which break hearta: 1. One i~ intolerable shame; I-he shame which comes from a crushing sense of sin; it may be of flagrant sin, such RB commands the deep indignation and stron.,. censure of our fellow- men, and in'l'olves the loss of our own self-respect; or it may b…
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or hie Iniquity. When men have come to hate ein thPy itre well on the ro11d towar,l it.a conquest. 2. Ily taking back the penitent to the favour and lr,ve or God. Through Christ sin ie po.rdoned ancl the sinner is restored. As one that loves Gorl, and seeks above all things to enjoy his favour, the man "cannot sin; " h…
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ne~ t.o kn_ow; a~<l tot.hem it becomes p;loriouely trne that the Spirit of the Lord ha.1 '\nomted hun, their Saviour, for "the recovering of sight to the blind."-0. Ver. 18.-Th~ bruised. "To 1101 llt liberty them that llre bruised." And who may the~- ,be "ho Rre thus characterized ? and in what way does Jesus Christ…
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"Come unto me ... I nm meek and lowly;"" Abide in me, and I [will abide] in you;" "Behold, I stnnd nt the door, and knock," etc. 2. .A note of con81deratrnes8. "Come Into a desert pince, nnd rest awhile;" 11 I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now;" 11 'l'be spirit is willing, but the flesh is w…
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. Ver. 4'0.-The hea.lfng Savi.our. Th_le \nteresting picture had evidently been 1mpr<'s~ed upon the mmds of the apostolic witnesses, for all the evangelists record th• fact tha_t the occurrence took place as the sun was setting, or in the evening of the day. ~t wa.s,_mdeed, a sight to be Jong remembered.. Who can im…
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tion," nor ru~h with e. light heart into it, nor shirk it, but accepted bre.vely what wa.~ forced upon him. It is only in snch a spirit that we can hope successfully to resist it. 'l'horo is no promise of Scripture to sustain any one who rushes madly into temptation. But, secondly, we observe that o. greo.t baptism of…
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wilb the arch-fiend, our Lord exclaimed, "Get thee behind me, So.to.n: for It 111 written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only eho.lt thou serve." The questio~ in the liri;t temptation WR.S that of ,·evelation, corresponding to the first of the bnptismal gifts; the question in this temptation is that of…
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lle read the Word, expounded it, and made a reputation for himself as a popular Tea,;her. Of course, a.long with his teaching, there was a measure of miracle. But his wonderful works were merely to secure increased attention to his still more wonrlerful words. His expositions of truth were really the important element …
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Ch1ist. A8 Jews, Rml II.I! his own townepeople, they fancied they hal A claim whioh could not_ be got over. This self-righteous spirit must \,e put down. Hcuce our Lord dC'clares, !n _the ~rst place, that "no p~p_he~ is accepted in his own country." To thia law of limited mfluence through forn1l11mty Jesus himself h…
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II. 0uB Lonn DEMONSTRATED HIS POWER OVEB DEVILS Al! WELL AB OVER MP:N. (Vere. 33-37.) In the synagogue there happened to be an unfortunate man pussesS"!ri by what is called an "unclean devil;" hie "inspirations" from this unhappy source being perhaps of a lustful and sensual character. The possession of men by demons w…
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