Our Lord's own favorite designation of Himself is, however, In Luke as In the other Synoptists, ' the Son of Man ' ; and as in the other Synop- ' Son of Man ' ^^^^^ ^^^^ designation is in Luke exclu- sively a self-designation of Jesus' own. For obviously when the angel at the empty tomb is represented as saying, " Remember how He spake unto
35 The emphasis is on the unlimited ndvra'^ cf. Hahn : " Jesus gives expression accordingly primarily to the general idea, that God has held back nothing for Himself, but has made the Son participant in all that is peculiar to Himself. These first words form the ground for what follows. The emphasis in them is not on the p.oi (Weiss), nor on the 67:0 TOO TzaTp6<; (Hofmann), but on Travra."
2^ Cf. Plummer in he: " It is impossible upon any principles o£ criticism to question its genuineness, or its right to be regarded as among the earliest materials made use of by the Evangelists. And it contains the whole of the Christology of the Fourth Gospel. It is like 'an aerolite from the Johannine heaven' (Hase, Gesch, Jesu, p. 527) ; and for that very reason causes perplexity to those who deny the soli- darity between the Johannine heaven and the Synoptic earth." It should be compared with the following passages: Jno 3^^ 6*^ 8^^ iqIS-^o 148 1615 176,10^ aii(j (.f. further, Sanday, Fourth Gospel, p. 109; Keim Jes. of Naz., IV. 63 referred to by Plummer. Godet says strikingly that Jesus' words here " become an echo of the joys of His eternal genera- tion." He means doubtless that the continuous interchange of perfect mutual knowledge here set forth is a reflection of the essential relation of Father and Son to one another.
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you when He was yet in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified and the third day rise again " (24'^), — this is not an instance of the employment of this title by another than Jesus, but only another at- tribution of it to Jesus. The title occurs in Luke about twenty-five times," and in the same collocations and with the same import as in the other Synoptists. If we attempt, therefore, to derive from the substance of the passages in which it is employed a notion of the conception which was attached to it, we arrive at the same conclusion as in the case of the other Synoptists. In Luke, the purpose of the coming of the ' Son of Man ' is declared in the form, " The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost" (19^^). Ac- cordingly human destiny is connected absolutely with the relations of men to Him. Those are blessed whom men hate and ostracise and reproach, casting out their name as evil, if it be for the * Son of Man's ' sake (6^^). For everyone who shall confess Him before men, him shall the ' Son of Man ' confess before the angels of God (12^); and on the other hand every one who denies the ' Son of Man ' in the presence of men shall be denied in the presence of the angels of God (12^), and whosoever shall be ashamed of the ' Son of Man ' and of His words, of him shall the * Son of Man ' be ashamed when He comes in His own glory and that of the Father and of the holy angels (9"^). That nevertheless blasphemy against the ' Son of Man ' may be forgiven as blasphemy against the Spirit may not (12^°), doubtless belongs to
37 c24 56.22 y34 n22, 26, 44,68 nSO ^^2,^,10,^0 jy22,24,26,30 ig8,31 jqIO 2x27,36 2222,48,69 [247].
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the humility of His earthly life before He has come in His glory. For in this life He comports Himself like other men, eating and drinking (y^**), passing a hard and suffering existence (9^^), and so fulfilling the Scriptures (iS^^^^'^'). Meanwhile, however. He ex- ercises even on earth the authority to regulate religious observances (6^) and to forgive sins (5"^). In other words, the sufferings He endures (9^ 22^^) are not the result of fate or chance, and do not belong to Him by right, but are voluntarily undertaken as part of His mission (18^^'^^ 17^^ 24''^). They issue in death In- deed (9^^ 18^^ 22^^ 24'^), but after death comes resur- rection (9^^ 11^^ 18^^ 24'^); and after resurrection, in Its own good time, a return in His appropriate glory (22^9 9^^ I2^« if'-'' i8« 21^'^ 22^^). The humiliation over, at once the ' Son of Man ' Is seated at the right hand of the power of God (22^^^), and when He comes again He will come " in a cloud with great power and glory" (21^^), — a glory described as " His own glory, and the glory of His Father and of the holy angels " (9^®). The suddenness of this coming Is adverted to (12^^ 1722-24,26,30^^ ^^^ ^j^g j^^ij^ f^(.^ emphasized, that