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law of the Kingdom of God that life in tliis world must be sacrificed, if need lie, that life eternal may be gained as a permanent possession. After the Saviour's life of service, the due reward will be honour from God. When the heavenly voice spoke, the Saviour was consoled and uplifted by the thought that He would cast out the prince of this world, and be lifted up (ui/'wSu) as a victorious conqueror. It was a prediction of His final triumph over evil, and His eternal reign over all men. Tlie outwardly shameful death of the cross would be His true exaltation as the world's Saviour. By the identification of outward events with their inward meaning. He advances men's thoughts to the idea of His exaltation to heaven as the vic- torious One. This anticipation of Jesus is the starting-point for the Church's fully develoiied doctrine of the Exaltation. ' He rose again from the dead on the third day. He ascended up into hea\en. He sitteth on the right liand of God the Father, He shall come to judge the world at the last day.' See artt. ASCENSION, JUDGMENT, Session.
After the predictions of His suffering. He al- ways spoke of His future glory. He would rise again from the dead (Mt l&^]. ' In the regenera- tion tlie Son of man shall sit on the throne of His glory' (192«). 'The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then shall he render unto every man according to his deeds ' (16"). In the sayings in the Gospel of John there many lofty statements as to His heavenly glory
(cf. W
' etc.).
David M. W. Laird.
EXAMPLE.—
A. L1NOUI8TIC iisAOE.— The word 'example' (or 'ensaniplc') occurs 16 times in the AV and 17 times in the RV of the NT. In the two versions it stands 7 times (1 Co 106, ph 3", 1 Th 1', 2 Th 39, 1 Ti 412, Tit 27 RV, 1 P 63) for -z-^tk, once (1 Ti 116 RV) for irori^ian;, once (1 Co 10") in adverljial phrase for iutixj:, 5 times (.In 1316, He 4" 85, Ja 6io, 2 P 26) for iT.>i„.u«, once (Ac 2035) as partial rendering of i^ohuy,\vfjit, once (Jude ") for liiyfjM, once (Mt 119) as partial rendering of iuypucti'!,:^, and once (1 P 221) for iTtiypa.ij.jj.iii. For our present purpose Mt 119 falls quite out of account. SfVxwa (Jude ^) is a 'specimen,' 'an (illustra- tive) exhibit '—in this instance set forth as a warning, though of itself this simple form hardly suggests either imitation or shunning, as hn,li%uyij.a. does. The other passages all more or less illustrate the topic in hand. Besides these, there are, of course, many other passages which, though not employing the term ' example,' are no less relevant and significant than
TuTo;, whether tr. ' example ' or ' pattern, ' type,' has gciur- ally an important bearing upon mmi i.^pii . liiinniu ili- 'mark,' 'impression' of a stroke nr M - '1 '" ' ;■! ■ ' ' hence 'figure,' 'image' (Ac 7-13), 7^7 ,1
' type,' ' example.' Sometimes the c\:u ing, as 1 Co 106- 1'. Generally, how. 1 . 1 imitated. A corresponding sense is t.. i 1
(ITi 116, 2 Ti 113). (In the Lxtttr \. M
Cremer's interpretation ' Abhild ' .'•. . ,
Timothy is to hold fast the 'type ■ "I 1 1,
received from Paul, and this ' type ' in ii-i p m i . i ■
copy of Paul's, but as something which had Ji ",
mon to both}.— iToS!(>-/Ao; is a concrete iihisdii ii
tion, designed for imitation or for warnlim
former. In one instance in the NT iTo}n>,u« i~ ii ■ 1
representation (Ger. Abbild). — u-
of the NT terms indicative of Christ's exampleship. The term itself implies the strictest imitation ; though both the context and the general teaching of the NT will save us from the error of conceiving Christ's example as something formal and ex-
Among the other terms which give expression to the idea of Christian example, the most prominent are u.ifj.itfj.Ki and ^i^vjTijf (AV 'follow' and 'follower,' ]l\' 'iitiilalc' and 'imitator'). The verb occurs 1 hn,-- n, h,. m.' h, '. He 13', 3 Jn n), in one of these in ' . ,73.-. The noun
occurs 6 times 1 1 . . 1 1 . ; 1 ' ', He tii2— at 1 P
313 the readiii;^ . n cverv instance
signifying 'unihilo, ■ ,„ 1 Im- , 1 1,,.,., ,:,,,, ,, s.'nse. ' In Eph 61
who are to be imilatedi in 1 Co 4I6 St. Paul exhorts' to the imitation of himself, rather than to turn away from him, inas- much as he was their father in the faith. In 1 Co 111 he bids his readers imitate him as he imitates Christ. In 1 Th 16 it is
'IS and of the Lord,' while in 1 Th 2" it is 'the
churches of God in judasa,' of whom the Thessalonians had become imitators.
Jesus in gathering His disciples about Him generally bade men ' follow ' Him (iyjiX.^h,,, ; in one instance, Mt 419, iwrt oTiTu). Primarily the expression means no more than 'to ac- company ' as a disciple, and yet manifestly it became, m our Lord's lise of it, one of the most characteristic and intensely significant expressions of the idea of discipleship in all its deepest import. So where Christ bids the rich young ruler sell all that he has and ' come, follow me,' or in the words on ' taking up the cross and following,' and elsewhere (see esp. Mt 1921 1038 16'", Jn 1'2'» 2122). The verb is not found in the Epistles, except at 1 Co 104.