The life and teachings of Jesus; a critical analysis of the sources of the Gospels, together with a study of the sayings of Jesus . are heavy laden, and I will give you my yoke upon you, and learn of me ; for I ammeek and lowly in heart : and ye shall find rest imtoyour souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden islight. The passage is unique among Jesus sayings,and yet we do not think that there is any sufficientreasons to doubt that Jesus really spoke it. Theknowledge that in the midst of loneliness and mis-understanding and the heartsickness of failure, Godknew the truth of him and
The life and teachings of Jesus; a critical analysis of the sources of the Gospels, together with a study of the sayings of Jesus . are heavy laden, and I will give you my yoke upon you, and learn of me ; for I ammeek and lowly in heart : and ye shall find rest imtoyour souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden islight. The passage is unique among Jesus sayings,and yet we do not think that there is any sufficientreasons to doubt that Jesus really spoke it. Theknowledge that in the midst of loneliness and mis-understanding and the heartsickness of failure, Godknew the truth of him and had marked him for hisown, the consciousness that he was permitted to standin a special relation to the Father, and that to himGod had been revealed as he had not revealed himselfto any other man, that this revelation was a message ofinfinite love and compassion to weary and burdenedmen, which he alone was able to make real to them,this is what gave Jesus his divine confidence. Fromanother man words like these would sound strangeand boastful; from the lips of Jesus they come to us naturally, because of Jesus they are CHAPTER IV. JESUS ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE I<AW. OF the general attitude which Jesus held towardsthe Mosaic law and the religion of the Old Tes-tament there can be no reasonable doubt. Jesuscertainly believed that the Old Testament furnished arevelation of Gods will, and upon it his own spirituallife had been nourished. There is no evidence thatupon critical questions which concern the Old Testa-ment he held views which differed from those viewswhich his contemporaries held ; critical questions onemight say indeed would have had very little attractionto him. He reveres the Temple with all its associa-tions ; he recognizes sacrifice as one way of payingworship to God ; he does not blame the Pharisees be-cause of the attention which they paid to the lessermatters of the lyaw, but because they neglected whatwas weightier; there is one who is good, he says, an
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