PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Great Texts of the Bible — Volume 15
James Hastings · 196,620 words · 202 reading sections
Section 181
(4) The power which raised Jesus Christ from the dead was the Holy Spirit of God. One writer declares that it was through the Eternal Spirit that Jesus offered His life while on earth without spot to God, and, in saying this, he only follows St. Paul in his declaration that He was marked out as the Son of God with powe…
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1 E. W. Corbet, Letters from a Mystic of the Present Day, 183. 468 RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD consistently unjust person, may always be rightly distinguished at a glance ; and if the qualities are continued by descent through a generation or two, there arises a complete distinction of race. Both moral and physical qu…
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(4) The resurrection was the convincing proof that Christ's words were true, and that He was what He had claimed to be. — He 470 RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD Himself had on more occasions than one hinted that such proof was to be given. " Destroy this temple," He said, " and in three days I will raise it up." The sign …
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1 Mandell Creighton, Life and Letters, ii. 168. 472 RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD mightest drive away from us the power of the enemy ; grant to us, Thy servants, that we may always live in the joys of His Kesurrection." In the Prayer-book of 1549 the same anthem was placed at the head of the short introductory service t…
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474 RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD to the sons of men. Or, in other words, if in the first anthem we realize the guilt of sin atoned for by t he Paschal Lamb, in the second we joyfully celebrate the power of sin crushed through the overcoming life within, and in the third we foretell the result of sin cancelled through th…
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Not as a fallen stone, Abiding where it hath been flung, Did Christ remain the dead among, But sprang from Hades' deep invisible zone, As the corn springs from where it has been thrown! Not, as at Nain of yore The young man rose to die again, Did He resume the haunts of men, But closed behind Him Death's reluctant doo…
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Better sleep you so will get, And at morning wake more gay — Saith the children's mother. You I must unclothe again, For you need a better dress; Too much worn are body and brain ; You need everlastingness — Saith the heavenly father. I went down death's lonely stair; Laid my garments in the tomb ; Dressed again …
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Death and darkness, get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking; All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marr'd is mended; 1 Bishop Boyd Carpenter, Some Pages of My Life, 287. i CORINTHIANS xv. 20 481 Graves are beds now for the weary, Death a nap, to wake more merry; Youth now, full of pious duty, Seek…
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«•{! ,'Be strong — " Be strong." G Be tender — " Let all that ye do be done in love." I I. Be Awake. " Watch ye." Be awake, lie not in slumber, that is the first requisite for all action; break the bands of sleep and indolence, or you can do nothing. The word means one of two things certainly, probably both — K…
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ii. Watchfulness. 1. Watchfulness means more than being awake. It is con- centrated attention in wakefulness. It springs from the conviction of danger, it is sustained by the responsibility of duty. It is one of those positions which are restricted to the individual himself. Watchfulness cannot be transferred : it can…
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If The soldiers insensibly forgot the virtues of their profession and contracted only the vices of civil life. They were either degraded by the industry of mechanic trades, or enervated by the luxury of baths and theatres. They soon became careless of their martial exercises, and curious in their diet and apparel. They…
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i CORINTHIANS xvi. 13, 14 493 rest. The argument of the resurrection, which is the glory of this Epistle, was addressed to the sceptical spirit of the Corinthian Church. That spirit expressed itself in the question, " How are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come ? " This is the popular mode of exclaimin…
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1 C. Jerdan. i CORINTHIANS xvi. 13, 14 495 they are not rooted and grounded sufficiently in Christ Himself as the fulness of their redemption ? Is it not because they have not embraced the faith with all their heart and mind ; because they stand wavering on the threshold of the fortress, and have never really entered…
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1 George Clarke. i CORINTHIANS xvi. 13, 14 497 must have raised in the minds of St. Paul's hearers and those which it would have called up if uttered by one of their civil rulers. How different a thing had manhood become to the Christian from what it was before his conversion. The thought that their life had been liv…
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1 Raskin, The Study of Architecture ( Works, xix. 32). i CORINTHIANS xvi. 13, 14 499 which had been of the same shape in its early days. When I saw it, the owner's slippers, and sundry other impedimenta, had destroyed its squareness, and the varnish had given way, here and there, in honourable scars of roughened brow…
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In the first place, then, if in any respect a man is expected to have more courage and strength than a woman, let him act as becomes a man. Here the protest is against effeminacy. Secondly, if in any respect a grown man is expected to have more intelligence, wisdom, force, self-control, or fortitude than a mere child, …
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H No meanness, hypocrisy, or dishonesty, whether on the part of rich or poor, could escape the rigorous censure of " that terrible Thoreau," as his acquaintances called him ; nor would he waste on thriftless applicants one cent of the money which he had earned by his own conscientious labours. He maintained sincerity t…
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When shall we lay The ghost of the brute that is walking and haunting us yet and be free? This is the great problem of life.1 (4) Courage. — Another principle by which the manly life is steered is courage. As to this thing called courage, people some- times distinguish between physical courage and moral courage. If t…
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^[ " I asked Kang Yu Wei, who has studied the Gospels profoundly, what seemed to him the most striking quality in Jesus. 1 Ganon Hay Aitken. 508 THE CHRISTIAN KNIGHT He answered, somewhat to my surprise, that what appealed to him most, in the personality of Jesus, was His courage." 1 And who the bravest of the brav…
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What is that Divine strength which is to transform c natural and human strength ? In one word, it is " Christ in Ti the same Divine power which secretly fought in and with J; noblest efforts of humanity outside the Jewish and the Christi? i Church. Only now its nature is revealed ; more than that, thai < is revealed to…
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into this vigour of business the fervent spirit serving God, so that, whilst the hand of diligence maketh rich, the heart and its treasures have no earthliness in them ! How easy might it be to be strong in religion, in the devotion of our souls to holiness and truth, if duty centred in the private thoughts and cou…
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Be Tender. " Let all that ye do (be done in love." 1. There is a singular contrast between the first four of these exhortations and the last. The former ring sharp and short like pistol-shots; the last is of gentler mould. The former sound like the word of command shouted by an officer along the ranks; and there is a…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.