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Amid the tumult of the storm, they heard a wailing sound, like a sob, in which a name was pronounced with difficulty: "Frantz! Frantz!" It was terrible and pitiful. When Christ on the Cross sent up to heaven His despairing cry: 'Eli, eli, lama sabachthani', they who heard him must have felt the same species of superstitious terror that suddenly seized upon Mademoiselle Planus.
"What, wilt thou not?" and seeing that Jesus would not touch the sponge he took it away. Then Jesus cried in agony, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani!" But those hearing him did not understand, but imagined he cried for Elias. "Hark!" said they. "He cried for Elias." Then Caiaphas laughed and said, "Let be; let us see whether Elias will come to save him."
If through all these dark waters the scornful reviewer have passed clear, refined, free from stain, with a soul that has never in all its agonies cried "lama sabachthani," still, even then let him pray with the Publican rather than judge with the Pharisee. "Jan. l0th, 1849. "Anne had a very tolerable day yesterday, and a pretty quiet night last night, though she did not sleep much. Mr.
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
He told them, in words that burned, of that three hours' darkness that might be felt of that "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani" into which was more than concentrated every cry of human anguish since the beginning of the world. And then he looked, as it were, straight into the heart's depths of every one of his hearers, and he said to each one of those hearts, "This was your doing!"
That is God's election; an election to the cross and to the cry, 'Eli, Eli, lama Sabachthani. 'Yes, you will say, 'but He elected him to the victory over Ammon. Doubtless He did; but what cared Jephthah for his victory over Ammon when she came to meet him, or, indeed, for the rest of his life? What is a victory, what are triumphal arches and the praise of all creation to a lonely man?
Matthew xxvii, 33 44. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
The hours of greatest suffering are the empty hours. 'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? The hours when the mysterious sustaining and driving force is withdrawn, and a lassitude and despair comes over us like that of a deserted child: the hours when we feel we have reached the limit of service, when our brief span of usefulness is done.
If we are doing any work for Christ, i.e. for others for Christ's sake, and as part of our service to Him, willingly and cheerfully, then we have the final and convincing proof that we are indeed forgiven, that the offer of renewed allegiance has been accepted, that we have been restored to His Friendship. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani."
"And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. The roles became reversed, because Elijah-John was no longer needed to be the ostensible guru of Elisha-Jesus, now perfected in divine realization. Again, in his hour of extremity on the cross, Jesus cried out the divine name: "ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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