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Afterwards they stood on the platform, but in spite of the valiant efforts of Uncle Tom and Peter, conversation was a mockery. "Honora," said Aunt Mary, "don't forget that your trunk key is in the little pocket on the left side of your bag." "No, Aunt Mary." "And your little New Testament at the bottom. And your lunch is arranged in three packages.
Rather, through any door or window left unwittingly ajar where he may steal in, even though unobserved, to lift and liberate a life, there the God of the New Testament will come "the light which lighteth every man coming into the world." Consider, for illustration, the many people in this generation who have given up active relationship with the Church and assured faith in God.
I sat opposite them, and watched their faces as Theobald read a chapter from the Bible. They were nice people, but more absolute vacancy I never saw upon the countenances of human beings. Theobald began by reading a few verses from the Old Testament, according to some system of his own.
Perhaps some day a student of Jerome will arise who will be able to throw light on the matter from examination of the text at which Erasmus arrived. To the New Testament the other work which occupied his time at Cambridge he had also turned his attention shortly after his return to Paris in 1500, beginning a commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul.
He is Son of God, but all men are, or may become so, in divers degrees. Every one ought daily to call God his father; all who are raised again will be sons of God. The divine son-ship was attributed in the Old Testament to beings whom it was by no means pretended were equal with God. The word "son" has the widest meanings in the Semitic language, and in that of the New Testament.
They were regarded as genuine productions, possessing an independent authority which, if not divine, was certainly supernatural; and some did not hesitate even to place them by the side of the Old Testament prophecies. In the very earliest controversies between Christians and the advocates of paganism, they were appealed to frequently as authorities which both recognised.
He asked me to read him a chapter in the New Testament. I complied, and ask'd him what I should read. He said, "Make your own choice." I open'd at the close of one of the first books of the evangelists, and read the chapters describing the latter hours of Christ, and the scenes at the crucifixion. The poor, wasted young man ask'd me to read the following chapter also, how Christ rose again.
If the Old Testament is so fascinating what may we expect of the New? It is day as compared with dawn; it is the morning light, with which Moses and the Prophets beat back the darkness of the night, enlarged until we have the sun in its meridian glory. "Old things have passed away; behold, all things are become new."
And no officer in Israel had any legislative power, but such as were immediately inspired. Even David, the man after God's own heart, had no legislative power, but only as he was inspired from above: and he is expressly called a prophet in the New Testament.
"Now that 'Jesus Christ brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel, and that in the most literal sense, which implies that the revelation of the doctrine is peculiar to His Gospel, seems to be at least the most obvious meaning of the Scriptures of the New Testament." Whately, l.c. p. 27.
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