§ Except that of the strong man armed, in Mk 327 (cf. la 4924f., Ps. Sol. 54), etc., an allusion to His own defeat of Satan in the temptations.
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»!,„.•. nUo "iM where the npocAlvptic allusion o( Jlk. "'^\?r ,o 1m \-.nr» replaced lll.e conerele nn.l historical and iMt. to Un 11" i» "V'"'-, ', ':^,,V This like the sentence
fe-th neither pursenor wallet ."""^"fhtL- " ( ■ ^T t"-"" '» ""^itlen, •' Sut heX"ha» a' pnrTe'mus^ tike k now (iAXi
muit sell his coat f ■f^'j'^^^.'V.r me /'/ ..ol- dassld amo»,j
even their very existence for "»^"^^J ^^^ ^^ ^^^i,,' yoni-selves •"•^Sh "iSs .''^Vecann^-ne'.Iesn" uttering tfiesl, words with
r;^stuc.^^a;r^sestiven«.^T.--p--
asainst physical ""';"';,'' •,'''", "'^"ss in view of the critical n.etaphoncal «P'^"' °" /"Ji^f. I'jrvere too prosaic to caleh situation fl'^^ad But the d su, cs ^^^^^ ^^1^ .^^^ ^^^__,
S'^Sr.lfnise^f :f-d7e,ns/,ves a^inst tjie a^^
armed with a couple of swords or long ^mv cs (cr v ; a ,
naively hastened to f ^"?„,«J" , "J^ do ? ' S gh '. enough!
quasi dicat, Vixist s au""' 1 ■ , omissis de unis anuis
::: ;;^x:^^.7S^= ts:iSio t^= ;Sre,=wj;
mmmmm
reoently.defended ly luiutt, in ni i ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^
?''™''rie't"bSeferfthTco™n'a°nd'"oTuta sword was impossible to Di-lieve ui.ii y'\ ,, ,„ .11 „ niece of romcal fore- m^int literally fn^ ^^''"^^ly -J' '/ .^ff^^S'^u^^l welcome
boding.' . lie adds .th»tthe words an m .^^^^^ ^^^^^^
glimpse into "« ni ' ^ "J ou^Jf'd-J-i^, y ^___^ ^^^ ^^ _^
r me^^tr^Sge^ -' ^^-y^ ^^^^r ?f vs
in thislight ro.na.ns umque On any ">tf ^P^^''^^^, ^^ ,,,„ t„
He found that tie w .is i" "" " „„,,rtered bv the h red rullians of fr'1,r;VchV'TarHe"lto;^ed"Hsdisc\'i^
f^l£s;;wJ^t;^irJLfco;;^tii=^^ '•^r!Ze';,|g^i^H^j-o,u..;t^.m^^^^^
liir nT'l^'sis ) an/r vo^n luvel, tl.at this word of .Icsns I'rs-c^o^An^c'tJfw'iufa Special sit. atio^,^^^
bu""out of wUch"^ hopel His disciples would be able to
force a pas«.ge. ni-^wonb. n.fo. ^ .hi. e«Hn-^^^
momentarily J<'P;r'^\\""..- 1^,01.1:. '■"" "signs llimsell His followers. \V hen He say », ,'-"°"*'' ,;, '' iu,,,,ies8 of the ,0 the disciples' "'IfPPr,''.''""?^" „°;Hmght n Is^ni.Hl. of situation for MiinscU ; there la "" '"""If"^ , „„ illusions ottering any resistance to H.s »"'",'^."-,,if. V^ ".," uo ho, ,« thai
advert* to only '^ i'"°'"'"'^r» enough "He ha^^ "Toady
?he dis" iHes ohhe niagnitude of the conungjT^^^^
short, ambiguous word' (F von ^^"f^ {^^^^',,^,X,,,il^-,o,,.
without any reserve. ^^ f,'=",!^'"'.^^' "' I'^jdlc of the Dlh cent. l^oS^f Me;lrp^ortru!ag'ij5o^y«jP-. 1,^1^^
— -f ^- ^S^4l£S«the»"^ pacillsts tampered with ■'• . I'^^o 'Ind J^^im ^ lUmrativelv that
S:?r;^JS;n;:jt'^:re| =iS'&.. .. Olbson.
balnce of probabihtv is sl,gl|tIy-^M, favour o^(„)I„ the singular and nnlitant tone o the saying u^^ ,
mmsms
mmmM
. Keferring to the mission of the twelve (in 83) or the com-
"T«"o Sleil^^^'i'Wm"??;.. ChrManity, u. t^ondon «K»1
-5^Bngt/SZ^^5?rrffi^^^ Renan:'and loUowed by E. A. Sonnenschein, in UJ xni. 119151 865 f.
power and the temporal PO»er ^ 111 1 a J^ ,J„, cvangelicis
esse k'l^'l'os..si''""l"'';'»;'i" tthe latter Tderivativemu
.^.StiX^^Uio^^dta^^tpi^tln^e circks of messianic faith presents a more co.npl - cat«a problem. So far as .lesus was concerned the views of His mission which we have alreadj outlined are enough to prove that He stood aloo fo, all the cun-ent expectations o. a nationa
militant. iSie conceptions of a book l''^« Lno.l.
were iniluential; yet, when we read a pa.ssa-e like
^6" S describes the last onset of .he pa^an
I pow'ers. pon Israel, stirred "P.^'^" -"-"'Ir J.^
' ?o attack the holy city Init rnmed I'y 1' y^' "^^.'^^J :i
?L m .'hty opponeiits of Israel ((i'i^'-) .8 not tlu Son of^Man in the Gospels ; Jesus can be stern.
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but this is not His kind of sternness ; and, when a sword is j^iven to the slieep {i.e. the pious .Jews) wlierewith to rout tlieir brutal enemies (90"*), we instinctively think of the sword or knife by which the early Cliristians were constantly butchered (Ko 8^; cf. Uev 5'^). Yet the apocalyptic escha- tolo^y did carry with it sugj^estions of martial exploits, which may have ap[iealed to some members of the primitive church. We have only to look at the setting; from which the fuUilment of a prediction* about Jesus as the peaceful con- queror was taken, in order to see how closely the OT predictions of Him were bound up with more or less incongruous elements. AVar-weariness had prompted some fair dreams of peace in the older Jewish literature, but it should never be forgotten that the peace was to be the result of a conflict ; + only, as the international situation had so altered that the saints could not win the battle for tliem- selves, they were generally content to wait till God or riis messiah chose to intervene super- naturally in order to win it for them, or at any rate to call on them for aid. The very increase of a belief in demons and in the Satanic dominion wliich confronted God and stood behind the opposing powers of human life, did not altogether remove this conflict from the region of actual war. No stable peace could be looked for in the future unless and until the non-Jewish world had been reduced to subjection or annihilated along with the devil and his angels. The messianic interpretation of psalms like the 2nd and the 110th, which origin- ally depicted a martial monarch, like the mediaival St.* Louis of France, kept such beliefs and hopes alive. No doubt, when the little groups of Christians succeeded to this tradition, it was re-set for them by their conception of Jesus. Their ardent expectation of His return in order to take them safe to heaven prevented the large majority of them from cherishing the least interest In the fortunes of the world around them. Escha- tology tended to insulate and isolate the Christians far liiore than the Jews. Their faith detached them from the destinies of nations. The figure of Diocletian would have been intelligible to them ; tlie figure of Constantine never. The last thing of which they dreamed was the conversion of the Roman empire, and much less its subjugation by their celestial Lord. The sovereignty of God meant to them another kind of rule than that of a theocracy on earth, such as the fanatical Zealots dreamed of, who believed that God would not help them in their messianic hope unless they struck together a blow for faith (Jos. Aiit. XVIII. i. 1). But, while this was true theoretically and, in the main, practically, while the role of Christians was to hold the fort till they were relieved by the appearance of their messiah on the clouds of heaven, their literature shows occasional traces of another mood.