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I. The solitary Saviour. The disciples are left alone with the divine Saviour. He is alone in His nature. 'Son of God. He is alone in the sinlessness of His manhood. 'My Beloved Son! He is alone as God's Voice to men. 'Hear Him! The solitary Saviour, because sufficient. 'Thou, O Christ, art all I want. Sufficient, too, for ever. His life is eternal. His love is eternal.
From this it would appear that lying, which Jeremy Taylor sets out with denouncing as contrary to God's nature, and as declared by our Saviour to be always of the Devil, may, under certain circumstances, be a godly sin. Gregory of Nyssa and young Chrysostom could not have done better than this in showing the sinlessness of a sin in a good cause.
Newman, with all the theology and all the controversies of eighteen centuries in his mind, deduces from this statement a number of refined consequences as to her sinlessness, and greatness, and reward, which seem to him to flow from it, and says that it means all these consequences. Mr.
May it not be said with due reverence that, if only His human life on earth had been prolonged, His teaching, and His miracles, and His sinlessness, and His love must have swayed and melted the hearts of men, even of those who so long and so stubbornly withstood Him? We might so think.
And if Jesus Christ is only one of the series, then there is no deliverance in Him, for there is no sinlessness in that life. However fair its record may seem on the surface, there is beneath, somewhere or other, the leprosy that infects us all. Unless He came in another fashion from all the rest of us, He came with the same sin as all the rest of us, and He is no deliverer from sin.
Triumph of Good Over Evil Few Stripes or Many Reformatory Punishment Bringing Good out of Evil Possibilities of Redeeming Grace The Ransomed of the Lord Wrath but the Shadow of Love Former Eternity of Sinlessness Wrath no Constituent of the Divine Character Pity and Indignation. There can be no mistake here. The Scripture declares, again and again that God is Love.
This was the negative part of Paul's work. This was the knocking down of the barriers which had kept men, and would always have kept them, from entering into the kingdom of heaven. But the positive part of Paul's work is contained in his theory of the salvation of men from death through the second Adam, whom Jehovah rescued from Sheol for his sinlessness.
His toils make his short pauses refreshing. Were those pauses prolonged they would be invaded by a miserable ennui. Perfect peace will be found here or hereafter, not when we sink down into torpor, but only when the soul is wrought into high action for high ends. Another element of the peace of Jesus was His sinlessness.
"You drink wine this is a sin; give short weight that is a sin; look on your neighbour's wife that is a sin; everything you do is sin even if you do nothing, that is sin; there is no road of sinlessness. "I went on living as I felt inclined, without care as to whether it were sin or no. But still I asked myself about man's life.
For, though he shows that remorse developed in Donatello "a more definite and nobler individuality," he also reminds us that "sometimes the instruction comes without the sorrow, and oftener the sorrow teaches no lesson that abides with us"; and he illustrates this in the exquisite height of spirituality to which Hilda has attained through sinlessness.
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