. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. a severe and damp zcinter, somecorner-stone of the Temple in a conspicuous and important portion of the building icouldbecome so disintegrated that it had to be taken out, leading to the substitution for it in a placeof honour of the beautiful stone originally rejected. This was the idea I have illustrated inmy picture, taking it for granted that fesus, according to His usual custom, took an actualandwell-knozvn fact to eiiforce His doctrine and render it more striking. We may. however,als
. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. a severe and damp zcinter, somecorner-stone of the Temple in a conspicuous and important portion of the building icouldbecome so disintegrated that it had to be taken out, leading to the substitution for it in a placeof honour of the beautiful stone originally rejected. This was the idea I have illustrated inmy picture, taking it for granted that fesus, according to His usual custom, took an actualandwell-knozvn fact to eiiforce His doctrine and render it more striking. We may. however,also suppose that Our Lord merely turned to account a proverbial expression several timesemployed in the Bible, in Psalm cxviii. verse 12, for instance, which is quoted word for wordin the Gospel narrative. In favour of the latter interpretation is the fact that fesus wouldHimself remember the words of the Old Testament, and it was from the very same Psalmthat the Jews took the exclamation with which they hailed the approach of Christ on PalmSunday : Blessed is he that comet h in the name of the Lord The I.
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