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THE GREAT TEXTS OF THE BIBLE
THE VALUE OF THIS SERIES
FOR PREACHERS AND TEACHERS
is evidenced by the following Extracts from Reviews of the first two volumes issued —
ISAIAH, and ST. MARK
" We are greatly pleased with the volume on ' Isaiah,' and those who do not usually find much profit from books of this class will find here a great store of the best material." — London Quarterly Review.
"Judging by this first volume, we venture to think that the work will prove one of the most valuable contributions to efficient preaching which has been issued from the press." — Church Family
Newspaper.
"The series will prove not only valuable, but almost indispens- able to most ministers." — Sunday School Chronicle.
"We cannot express too warmly our appreciation of the careful, conscientious, and scholarly work embodied in this volume." — Baptist Times.
" The series bids fair to become one of the best helps to the over- burdened preacher that has ever been published." — The Record.
"Dr. Hastings' name is a guarantee of excellence." — British Weekly.
THE GREAT TEXTS OF THE BIBLE
EDITED BY THE REV.
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JAMES HASTINGS, D.D.
EDITOR OF "THE EXPOSITORY TIMES" "THE DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE'
"THE DICTIONARY OF CHRIST AND THE GOSPELS" AND
"THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION AND ETHICS"
ACTS and ROMANS i.-viii.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
EDINBURGH : T, & T. CLARK
1911
CONTENTS
TOPICS.
Power for Witness
Whitsun Day
Apostolic Christianity
The Saving Name
Faithful unto Death
Why Persecutest Thou Me?
Come Over and Help Us
What Must I do to be Saved'
An Unknown God
The Beatitude of the Giver
The Lash of the Law .
Visions and Obedience .
Not Ashamed of the Gospel
Justification
The Harvest of the Justified
God's Own Love .
A Good Reckoning
The Wages and the Gift
Law or Love
The Carnal and the Spiritual
The Owner's Mark
The Resurrection of the Body
The Leading of the Spirit
The Spirit of a Son
The Assurance of Sonship
Joint-Heirs with Christ
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25 45 65 83 101 119 129 151 167 185 209 233 255 283 301 325 343 367 385 405 419 435 455 479 491
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CONTENTS
I. 8 .
II. 4 .
II. 42 .
IV. 12 .
VII. 59, 60
IX. 4 .
XVI. 9 .
XVI. 30, 31.
XVII. 22, 23
XX. 35 . XXIV. 25 . XXVI. 19 .
TEXTS.
Acts.
3
27
47
67
85
103
121
131
153
169
187
211
Romans.
I. 16 . III. 23, 24 V. 1,2 V. 8 VI. 11 VI. 23 VIII. 3, 4 VIII. 6 VIII. 9 VIII. 11 VIII. 14 VIII. 15 VIII. 16 VIII. 17
235 257 285 303 327 345 369 387 407 421 437 457 481 493
Power for Witness.
ACTS & ROM. — I
Literature.
Albertson (C. C), College Sermons, 101.
Bright (W.), The Law of Faith, 226.
Chase (F. H.), The Credibility of the Book of Acts, 47.
Church (R. W.), Pascal and other Sermons, 336.
Coyle (R. F.), The Church and the Times, 55.
Davidson (R. T.), The Christian Opportunity, 169.
Hall (W. A. N.), Do out the Duty, 10.
Hopkins (E. H.), The Law of Liberty in the Spiritual Life, 203.
Hutton (A. W.), Ecclesia Discens, 31.
Ingram (A. F. W.), A Mission of the Spirit, 139.
Keenleyside (C. B.), God's Fellow- Workers, 163.
Lewis (A.), Sermons preached in England, 15.
Liddon (H. P.), Clerical Life and Work, 149.
„ Easter in St. Paul's, 407.
Lowry (S. C), The Work of the Holy Spirit, 33. Miller (W.), The Vision of Christ, 69. Moule (H. C. G.), From Sunday to Sunday, 284. Muspratt (W.), The Work and Power of the Holy Spirit, 34. Pearse (M. G.), The Christianity of Jesus Christ, 1, 21, 30, 39, 59, 70. Percival (J.), Sermons at Rugby, 179.
Spurgin (E. B.), The Work and Fruits of the Holy Spirit, 68. Swete (H. B.), The Holy Spirit in the New Testament, 64. Terry (G. F.), The Old Theology in the New Age, 21. Christian World Pulpit, lx. 324 (Wordsworth) ; lxxi. 276 (Campbell
Morgan) ; lxxv. 145 (Campbell Morgan). Contemporary Pulpit, 1st Ser., x. 65.
Power for Witness.
Ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall be my witnesses. — Acts i. 8.
1. The Book of Acts takes up the thread of the story just before the point at which the Gospel had dropped it. It begins with a brief summary of the Forty Days, adding a fuller account of the Ascension. These introductory verses (i. 1-12) mark the tran- sition from the earthly Ministry of the Lord (" all that Jesus began both to do and to teach") to the Ministry of the Spirit which was to follow His Ascension. The earthly Ministry had been from the first in the power of the Spirit, as the Gospel has taught us ; and the Acts opens with an intimation that this con- tinued to the end. The last injunctions to the Apostles were given, it is noted, "through [the] Holy Spirit." The Messianic inspiration was upon the Eisen Christ as it had been upon the Christ of the Ministry, and was perhaps enhanced by the more spiritual conditions of the Eesurrection life.
2. In these interviews before the Ascension the Lord's mind seems to have recalled the days of His own Baptism and Anointing by the Holy Spirit. He knew that a like event was about to occur in the history of the Church ; her baptism with the Spirit was at hand. The Eleven were charged not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the fulfilment of the Father's promise ; " for John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized in [the] Holy Spirit not many days hence." As to the time of the estab- lishment of Jbhe Messianic Kingdom He had nothing to say ; it was in the Father's hands. It was enough for them to know what directly concerned their own immediate future, and the discharge of their duty in it. " Ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit has come upon you : and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judsea and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth." As the Lord's own Baptism had been followed by His