The Doctrine Of The Atonement As Taught By Christ Himself

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX OF NOTES AND HISTORICAL ELUCIDATIONS. Note A, p. 15.--Number of the Sayings on the subject of His Death. IN speaking of the limited number of the Lord's testimonies on the subject of His atoning death, I allude to several elements in the public opinion of the age, which go far to explain the amount of reserve. Among other circumstances may be mentioned the fact that few of the Jews at that time retained a right idea of the atoning work or function of the Messiah, as it is represented in Isaiah's prophecy (Isa. liii.). The Jews in the time of Christ do not seem to have retained the belief of a suffering Messiah, or of His priesthood (Ps. ex. 4). Nay, the prophetical office, too, was swallowed up in the one notion of a temporal prince (see John i. 21, compared with Deut . xviii. 18). Bobger, in his Disjmtatio contra Eberhardum, quotes writers who assert, and also writers who deny, that the Jews in the time of Christ still had the idea. The evidence from the Gospels, that the idea had well nigh perished from the Jewish community, is almost conclusive. The Jews seem to have expected nothing but a temporal dominion, and a Messiah who should overthrow the power of Rome, and give to the Jewish people an ascendency among the nations. Their words at Jerusalem, "We have heard out of the law, that Christ abideth for ever" (John xii. 34), are decisive. The offence, too, which the multitude took at Capernaum, as De Wette and Meyer correctly show, must, in a large measure, be ascribed to His declaration, that He was to die as a suffering Messiah (John vi. 60). (See also Vinke, p. 164.) The apostles were not exempt from the prejudices of their contemporaries, but rather shared in them in a double measure. This appears from the fact that they...

Excerpt from Doctrine of the Atonement, as Taught by Christ Himself: Or the Sayings of Jesus on the Atonement, Exegetically Expounded and Classified My task in this work has been simply to determine, by strict exegetical investigation, the import of Christ's words, and to reproduce His thoughts by the exact interpretation of lan guage. I have no other desire than to ascertain what He did say, and to abide by it 3 and the principle on which alone it is safe to carry on investigations into doctrine on any point, is, I am fully persuaded, to go to the Scriptures, not for the starting point of thought alone, but for the substance of thought as well, or for the rounded and concrete development of the doc trine in all its elements: and these will be found in Christ's sayings, if we but patiently investigate them. It is not, then, to the Christian consciousness that I appeal with some modern teachers, nor to Christian feeling and Christian reason with others, but to the sayings of the Great Teacher, and of His commissioned servants, employed as His organs of revelation to the Church of all time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.