Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times . mother, and the inevitableraillery of the court. The command was given. The Romanexecutioner carried to the Baptist, dreaming of release, thesummons to Death opened to the captive thegates of Machaerus, that it might usher him into the libertyof the kingdom of God. The Baj^tists bloody head becameHerods birthday present to his wife, while the disciples ofthe martyred prophet obtained the poor privil
Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times . mother, and the inevitableraillery of the court. The command was given. The Romanexecutioner carried to the Baptist, dreaming of release, thesummons to Death opened to the captive thegates of Machaerus, that it might usher him into the libertyof the kingdom of God. The Baj^tists bloody head becameHerods birthday present to his wife, while the disciples ofthe martyred prophet obtained the poor privilege of givingto his beheaded trunk a decent burial. The justice of God does not always long delay. Herodsfear of the prophet proved to be no idle superstition. Insti-gated by the ambition of his still dissatisfied wife, he wenta few years later to Rome to obtain from Caesar the titleof king. In grasping at the shadow he lost the into disfavor, and driven an exile from the court, hedragged out the miserable remnant of his days with his yetmore miserable wife, known only to be despised, all her well-planned wickedness frustrated by her own over-reaching 302 THE CRISIS. [ CHAPTER XXn. THE CRISIS.* ET us now return from this sccrainG: diirrcssion tothe tliread of our narrative; a digression only infeb A appearance, since the Baptists death affected the^^ mission of Jesus no loss than the Baptists im-prisonment had done. Tlie latter Christ had ac-cepted as the voice of God calling him to his personal minis-try ; in the former he seems to have recognized an indicationthat it was time for him to set apart his twelve disciples totheir work. They had been instructed in the principles oftheir Masters kingdom. They had received the interpreta-tion of his parables. For nearly a year they had accom-panied him in his ministry, witnessed his miracles, and listenedto his instructions. To the comjiletion of their education itwas necessary that they should
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