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ROBERTSON
to Broadus's
Harmony of
the Gospels.
Life
God
the
Father.
Keywords
in the
Syllabus for
New
Teaching of Jesus.
Testament Study.
Students' Chronological
Epochs
in the Life
Epochs
in the Life
New Testament.
of Jesus.
of Paul.
Studies in the Minis-
Short
Grammar of
the
Greek
New
Testament.
Ministry
Paul's Exultation in
Preaching
By
A. T.
ROBERTSON,
Professor of
in
New
M.
A.,
D. D.
Testament Interpretation
NOV 20
New York
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Chicago
H.
Toronto
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Edinburgh
and
1990
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To
The Rev. James Stalker, M. A,, D. D,
Professor in the United Free
Church
College,
Aberdeen,
Teacher,
Preacher,
Inspirer of Preachers
Preface
is
IT
now
a good
many
ii.
with
much
made
first
its
my
gripped
first
my
appeal to me.
life, it
Greek exegesis
class in
heart with
As
noble pane-
this
not mere rhapsody on Paul's part, but a magnificent exposition of the preacher's task from every
It
is
point of view.
have made
it
my
Last
students.
November
in
South Carolina
made
" as pre-
me
to write a
little
book on the
subject.
appeal.
this
My
know much
life
is
PREFACE
8
old.
for
all
The
and
critical, if
have not
They
are subject to
really are.
have written
and
his mission
whom
as they
may
distinctly-
for
much misun-
derstanding.
It is
lines
of them.
find
Hfe, in Paul's
Some,
bracing words.
recover their
love.
first
may
for
class,
Some young
may
as
world that
calls
and take
not
in
a
the
where
it
ministry,
of our
of
by
is
pray
little
book
The volume
Paul's
though that
conception
of the ministry
writers
with this
needed.
is
exposition
grand
Paul's
ideas
it
mere
may go
of Jesus.
for interpreters
is
own
the heart of
related
sufficient
to
is
glorying
it.
modern
The
PREFACE
Many
swer the
call
of the noblest spirits of our time anof Christ with joy and gladness of heart.
The substance
dresses
before
of this
the
Tabernacle
Bible
in ad-
Conference
A. T. Robertson.
Louisville^
Ky,
Contents
I
The
Joy
Disheartened Preacher's
The New
Standpoint
13
51
II
The Glory
that
Faded
The
The
Attraction of Christ
83
IV
The
Preacher's Privilege
113
V
This Treasure
in
Earthen Vessels
The Human
Limitations
141
VI
10
Invisible Consolation
VII
Well Pleasing Unto Him
The
Preacher's
Passion
Master
^79
207
VIII
In Glory and Dishonour
Taking Life
II
as It Is
.
.
I had no relief for my spirit
But thanks be unto God, who always
leadeth us in triumph in Christ."
.
Cor. a. 13 f*
I.
IT
that Paul
He
had founded.*
very greatly.
seemed
It
in Corinth, a
church
European churches.
It
The
by
Julius
in a
new atmosphere
city
Mummius
destroyed
It
it.
was more
of
years since
open
was
made
it
more
hard to win a
fertile
ground.
Two
years
wicked metropolis.
become a
* Acts
*Acts
It
Christian.^
xviii.
I-20.
xviii.
II, 18.
He
'Acts
xvii.
15
in vain.
He
synagogue, Crispus,
Gallio,
l6
new
the
proconsul, the
first
Roman Empire
"
heart.
One
disaster
away
modern
of the
the
in
*'
that
Few
work
after
left it.
The
He could
upon me daily,
Corinth.
which presseth
ate
into
how
to preach:
soul
upon
pressed
Almost
anxiety for
like
corroding
" In nothing
Paul's
'
2 Cor.
xi.
rwv
28 ^
rust.
No
But
iv.
it
church
iT:i<JTaai<s
fiot
ij
kad^
i][iipav^
i)
Epochs
[xipijiva
ikkX-qniibv,
'^
knew
Paul
be anxious." ^
fxipi/iva.
6 /jLTjdkv fisptfivare.
Present imperative with
implies that they were anxious.
"Quit being anxious."
all
The anxiety
Tzaatbv
all
to
easier
is
his
that
his
work of
at
the churches."
he has
till
sadder experiences
heart crumble
for
of mishaps
series
in Corinth.
in Christ Jesus I
come
Province of
the
But a
in
that gave
Achaia.'
whole
new standing
Christianity
permission to
official
fx-/j
with
great
these very
It
spiritual
and
gifts
But
possibilities.*
The
showed
divisions
and
scramble
members were
The very
another.^
of disorder and
confusion.^
ApoUos and
sides
for
against ApolIt
was so bad
Some
praised the
Some thought
" flowery."
one
were scenes
They took
that Apollos
body
in the
hostile towards
services in church
selfishness.^
him too
was of
as the
The household
Gentiles.
Peter
had
3 I
^ 1
^
Cor.
Cor.
Cor.
Acts
'2
i.
4-9, 12-14.
xii.
i.
3 I
25.
10-13;
i"'
xviii. 27-xix.
Cor. X. 10.
21
;
ff.
Cor. xi, 18
Cor. xiv.
iv. 6ff.
81 Cor.
iv.
II.
ff.,
33.
on
make
the most of
it
As
silenced for
ence,^ but
also.
moment
at the
Jerusalem confer-
before.
name
name
to
of Peter in support
There was
also a
the Church.
with
personahties
intense
and
Few
jealousies.
by the
The
majority.^
members would go
feel-
to law
There
There was
to
idols.^
' I
Cor.
V.
4 I
Cor.
The
liberal
ii.
vi.
i-ii.
^ i
Cor.
vii.
ii. i-io.
Cor. viii.-x.
parties
daggers'
at
to
deny the
poor
saints
points
The
resurrection.^
19
in
preacher's heart.
He
wrote them a
he sent Timothy,
see
letter
his
which
this is
situation
to
come
He
in
It is
possible that
come
fact.
Indeed the
Corinth.
case.^
Then
with a rod.^
but
lost to us.^
is
do.^
He hoped
and con-
to
strife
go
the
what he could
commended
It
all
He
He must
3 I
20
come while
rather than
and cowardice ^
his indignation
was
such
at
heat.
(Stephanus,
tion
Fortunatus, Achaicus)^ to
Paul.
his heart to
them. After
Timothy Paul
sent Titus,
who seemed
the return of
to be
made
sible
that
manding an apology
so, that
If
letter is
lost
to
pos-
It is
Timothy.
us.^
for
Titus to
Troas.^
for
Corinth
through
at
At Troas he
Macedonia.^
in
Corinth.
gang agley."
Ephesus soon
ourselves
Paul
sickness
"
in
We
ourselves."^
seemed
fatal
Death came so
answer
"
in speech.
The
peril
2 Cor.
Some
p. 196.
6
2 Cor.
ii.
'
2 Cor.
i.
^ i
The
it
is still
So he seemed
writes.'
21
Thus
be dying.^
to
it
were a burden to
But
this
wrought
trius
was not
The whole
in the theatre.^
city
was soon
mob
an uproar
in
difficulty
his
companions
in travel,
to remain in Ephesus.
Macedonia.^
who
Deme-
Ephesus.
for
in this over-
against Paul.
ness,
all.
it
He
him
departure from
for
So
field.
His
when he was no
<
2 2 Cor, vi. 9.
Acts xix. 29-31.
He was
longer welcome.
?
and
v.
Acts xx.
I.
2 Cor,
iv.
22
PauVs
2.
He
It
was
at
go to Macedonia.^
call to
God's providence he
the hand of
God
ward
in
is
gospel of Christ."
it
had
in Troas.
had come
It
Perhaps
here again.
is
He
it.
Then
much work
to Macedonia.*
ceived the
Now
Timothy
at Troas, for
me in
the Lord."
had no rehef
for
my
brother."
he
writes, " I
The
spirit."
my
spirit,
It is
it off.
tension
of any kind.
because
had become
it
was chronic.
He
12.
" I
acute.
He
It
my
had
could not
use.
*2Cor.
was of no
in Philippi, to take
to health.
it
But
2 Acts
62 Cor. ii.
xvi, 8-10.
13.
23
come
to
Then when
danger of rebellion.
no happiness
zest
it
He had
was
idleness
lost his
He was
He knew that
despair.
otherwise.
is
There was
the heart.
Paul in Troas.
for
door
may harden
work and
for
opened
the
was not yet time for Titus to come, for Paul had
But, none
the
less, his
Every-
come on ahead
of time.
made
shown by
is
call to
more hopeful
field,
move on
to pastures new.
drudgery
in the tasks of
at the
toil
temptation
life.
humdrum
The
real
One
is
The gold
is
only steady,
ministry.
The
calling.
just
is
every-day
in a rather
Paul.
of the
go elsewhere, to get
plodding
One
There was no
all
difficulties
At such
a time one
is
proportion to the
24
facts.
is
in
danger of becoming
bitter
is
He
in jeopardy.
own
Thus he
task.
compass and
drift
out to
sea.
In
there
is
"My Dear
Jim:
am
191
1,
Yesterday
7,
through.
men doing
I shall
God never
intended me to be a minister.
If He
not big enough and brave enough to pay
the price.
Even if it leads you to write me down a
coward, I'm going to tell you why I've quit.
" To be perfectly honest with you, money has had
that
did, I
am
25
much
charge
to
me
26
not
field
less
at
than ^200,000.
'
'
,.
number
mean anything
a pitifully small
seem
in the evening.
It
did not
church from
real sacrifice
27
expected; tired
is
when
it
myself or
left
it
your
to lose
friendship.
" Yours as of old,
'*
The
ter.
William."
It is
umph
is
Dods."
8,
i860, p. 382,
No
"
tion to give
to
me on
work
me,
up
this
work
writing sermons
is
we
proba-
this
am
temptation appeals
not
is
terrible.
sometimes
away without
me
'
visiting
costs
tri-
entering.
lowness of
is
and
all
whom
it
have gone
spirit that it
the consequence
it
would not be
may
concern that
28
this, that
is
when
He
was, in
fact,
my
me
Dods came
in the best of
comfort in the
little
habitual state
unspiritual."
is
young
cus
am
fear
could
overtake.
going hitherto
to
But Mar-
minister.
New
be the principal of
College
But
gone,
He
it
may be
it
down
as Paul
had
at Corinth.*
pay
to receive a man's
not receive
it
He had
apostle.^
was
He
for his
proved
pay
at
Corinth
like a regular
in want,"
his right
"
him
manhood and
He had
of
them
made
that
tents with
living while
Aquila and
he preached
He
had
Priscilla so as to get
in Corinth.^
But he would
Cor.
ix.
6-18,
2 Cor.
xi.
5-12.
Acts
xviii. 3f.
in
Corinth.*
some
29
of the Church in
chief
He
standpoint.
But, while
this
all
work
we know, Paul
He
not
the
interloper* also.
did
whom
for
motives were
His
signed.
Paul,
himself.^
for
"poor saint"
was disheart-
at Troas, but
it
If
he could go on elsewhere.
3.
It
at Troas,
was
to
Macedonia
certain future.
Troas.
at
It
Avent
disciples
He
on
to Philippi.
hood.
the
It is
At
possible,
Philippi
brother of Luke.^
conjured up
all
was Luke
in all likeli-
But
Paul's
mind doubtless
2 Cor.
xi.
2 Cor.
2 Cor.
X. 3.
10.
30
The
ship went
but
relief,
"
all
into
we were
Macedonia our
For even
on every side
afflicted
had
flesh
;
with-
Much
as
from
position
its
rowed down
The
to recede
to a Pauline
test.
How
were involved.
sharp
letter
He went on
about
his
which he had
felt
compelled to write ?
to
He had
as
This
in his heart.
having no
spirit
rest
on
brought
He knew what
this restlessness
truth the
of
insomnia^ was.
all
He
has had
the way.*^
In
affliction in everything.^
He
him.
set
right.
it
He
What he means by
>
*
8
'
2 Cor.
2 Cor.
2 Cor.
2 Cor. vii. 8.
2 Cor. xi. 27.
Present perfect tense.
Note the anacoluthon due to Paul's passion.
2 Cor. vii. 5.
vii. 5.
vi. 5 ;
vii. 5.
cf.
* 2
we do not
Cor.
vii. 5.
know.
He had
sort.
actual conflicts of
These were
apprehensions.
the mind.
It
is,
in truth, a
new enemies
old or
Perhaps on board
some
The
some
fights
of foes.2
31
We
his Hfe.
It is
it
There
between
by the world
dark side
There
is.
boast of his
Judaizers
at
in
is
Jesus and
life,
when Paul
Indeed,
work
at
sympathy
is
but
Paul
If
spirit.
trials
of
set
bond
thus a
is
get,
on the world
is
this juncture.
we
is
life
to
driven to
Corinth
it
which he counts.^
is
the
He
catalogue
of his
kinds,
thirst."
his
" watchings
" If I
often,"
my
2 Cor.
"
hunger and
I will
glory of the
his
But
weakness."
xi. 26.
2 Cor.
just
xi.
now
23-33.
32
He
He
glory in anything.
spirit
This
and
in
body.
cannot
is
Who
is
ministry.
4.
Despond and
heights of joy.^
He
But thanks
leadeth us in triumph in
Joy
Laughter and
lives
next door to
Many
We
S.
2 Cor.
in
transition
is
sudden
are accustomed to
in Paul's writings,
xi. 29,
die
Korinther.
2 Cor.
ii.
14.
33
At once
at the
the
But,
is
completely carried
coming of
news
Paul
He
emotions.
his
in the Epistle
just this
is
'
make
does
come back
after he has
to earth.
book
this
it
will
is
It
con-
be well
" Nevertheless
He
The word
"
comfort
in this Epistle.
tion
and consolation.
child after a
one, particularly
faith,"
also
in you, while
The
"
"
And
not by
common
he was comforted
this
common
rejoiced at the
ing,
^ is
he dearly loved
for
his
It
"
longing
^ 2 Cor. vii. 6.
2 Cor. vii. 5-16.
Titus i. 4.
Eager longing in the Greek. Cf. Phil.
i.
me
"
so that
I re-
2 Cor.
8.
vii. 7.
34
and
made
Paul
tails,
Titus
tell
all
it
over again
with
many
It
ing
of the
result
was a charm-
mourn-
"
Titus.
sorrow
had
As
come
for Paul
the de-
all
The
by
like
Possibly
message
was music to
it
for.
that
/ Indeed, he had
after
it
sorrow
regretted
it
that he
was too
" I
it
bore
had written
late.
fruit in
it
not that
ye were made
a change of
it,
But Paul's
rejoice,
really
now
Paul's misery.
sorry
of a godly
mind and
life.
So Paul
The word
all."
35
*
is
the one
and
heavy-laden
the
" I
you
give
will
rest."
a most
and dehcate
difficult
who
task.
has accomplished
now
that
and
is
Paul's
inthians."
them
of
to him.
" heart
mouth
"I
He
is
glad
justified.^
So
in a tender
own
some
his
then Titus
in
is
is
rejoice that in
everything
^
O
I
Cor-
am
of
all
things.
Three Taverns
of Paul's arrival,
The Market
whom when
human
to
The
life
is
fellowship.
inner hfe of a
1
Rest again.
2 Cor. vii. II.
The
of Appius and
in
is
meet
Few
came
preacher's
He comes
life
This
close to the
^2 Cor.
^
vii, 14 f.
Acts xxviii. 15.
36
to heart.
is
a stubborn minority
who have
and
Church
at
that
But
view of things.
his
in the
left
Corinth
it
Church
It
to Paul
is
saved from
by
come
his
latter part
to
pay
It is this
double aspect
came
to Corinth.
left,
f.
for Paul
though
full
will write
of joy and
it is
interesting to note
The
in prison.^
which he
is
If
from
Rome some
commands
to rejoice,
longer a prisoner in
here, even
spirit.
He
years hence,
is
though Paul
at
But he
is
is
now no
free as a bird as
es Cor.
ii.
the earth.
5
f.
We
owe
22 Cor.
his
x-xiii.
of heart in Paul.
The
reaction was
from the
precedes
Paul's
in
He
imaginary.
more
the
all
is
It
treatise
The
on
brightness
brilliantly against
black cloud
troubles
equal to
noted,^
mediately
high as the
the
as
action.
37
outburst
this
of
were
ministry
real,
if
joy.
The
not merely
one.
His
real
still
after
he meets
Titus,
He
has a
new Hght
on the problems
over his
new
life
That
at Corinth.
and forth
light flashes
He
the future.
into
mood
to estimate his
preacher to reach a
of despondency.
It is
final
own
back
has a
Now
in the right
is
life
are
difficulties
he
ministerial
conclusion in his
moments
on towards
it.
Gospel
chance to get
*
2 Cor.
ii.
will
this
i2-vi. 10.
him
calls
be wise
if
to be a preacher
he gives himself a
See beginning of
this section.
38
forth
by Paul
is
in his
moment
The
of ecstasy.
highest
The temptation
is
expediency, and
con-
modern thought
the relations of
real " Sky-pilot "
spirit.
as
It
is
is
No
him.
at
to the Bible.
Nothing
man
to the service
if
its
puts
sorry,
you
in,
you
but count
will stay in
it
grip on
He is tugging
and you
If Christ
will
not be
It is
probably
in
every calling.
than anywhere
But
else.
it
hurts
more
But, after
all,
tn ^he ministry
i.
12.
the world.
If
one has
man
that,
of the ministry.
" Let a
me
39
of you, or
judgeth
But with
is
it
man's judgment
of
me is
the Lord."
So Paul
is
He
that
going to sing
Hear what he
The
5.
He
on
Paul
and
and held a
New
has a
new
is
The sun
standpoint.
the mountain
when
He
near,
up and down,
obstacles that
in the clear
seemed so large
often shines
is
it
can see
empyrean.
in his
path have
far
The
now
fresh
in this
world-view.
Let us
stand upon the mountain with Paul and catch his view
of the worth and dignity of service to Christ.
own
Paul
ministry in
and
he
treats
1 1
it
Cor.
in
iv.
its
1-4.
fundamental and
40
way
eternal relations in a
heart.
Triumph After
(a)
Paul
Paul's.
triumph
God
ages.
in Christ."
meaning of
All.
Christ's
is
'
There
is
bold image.
this
it.
No
no doubt
does
Col.
in
ii.
them
15
in
as to the
not
Paul uses
it,"
it
word has
of Jesus
the captive
who
is
mean
always leadeth us
It
has
"
He
is
and in
Roman
triumphal pro-
cession, and,
yet heard of
its glories.^
sometimes kept
at
Rome
when
it
took place.
Thus
who came
hands, a prisoner in
great triumph.
1
Rome
Greek
literature
see
until his
So Claudius ^
Bachmann, 2 Kor.,
S. 129.
3
in
p. 87.
loco,
But
**
of
that
to
parallel
When God
4I
Paul's case
is
not quite
Vercingetorix or Caractacus.
what happens
it is
the beginning of
him."
for
Even
'
tions
It
is
passed through a
in a
New
crisis.
all
in Paul's
tribula-
hand of God
Prof.
triumphs, in
after
we have
one morning
pic-
at the terrible
harbour.
ness ? "
he
His glory
now.
in the dark-
falteringly asked.
in
it
all.
What seemed
to be defeat
he now knows
is
victory.
an
Did we
has revealed
God
The
ministry
1
is
Denney,
God
in his
own
life
p. 88.
and
He
42
and Titus ^
'
whole long
God through
who have been instruments
in
in
If
Paul
is
way
pointed the
secret
lies
But
point.
for
this
is
The
looking at one's
in
life
only possible
" Christ
" in Christ."
is
takes place."
F.
W.
Robertson
is
is
victory."
right: "
It
God
The
de-
the joy of
is
He
feels.
has
{b)
the
Roman triumph
tions."
"
says that at
full
of fumiga-
a very
is
He now
victor's
natural
one,
march of
^
transition
Incense was
The
chariot."^
in Jesus.
Plutarch
2 Cor.
i.
victory.
He maketh
**
manifest through us
2
I.
2 Cor.
ii.
13
vii.
fF.
* Ibid.
p.
618.
" Incense smoked on every altar as the victor passed through the
streets of
8
Rome."
Denney, in
loco.
loco.
43
The
the "
and
The knowledge
knowledge
God
of
in Christ
it
This
in
way of God.
fragrance
due to no merit
is
ister,
is
that the
is
is
is
near to
But
spread
is
in the
min-
God because he
But
there
is
as
God along
Preaching
that of
the way.
is
we
preacher
so
is
The
figure
ment.^
The
life
common
is
really leading in
Genitive of apposition.
15.
i.
9, 13, etc.
odour
triumph
ii.
'2 Cor.
The
perfume.
is
in
He
filled
filled
Christ.
is
For
so
doubtless means
is
**
lowliest
will
This
of sanctity "
is
life
speak
is
which
which God
infallibly
and
at Corinth as at
Ephesus.
Meyer, in
*
loco.
Denney, in
loco.
44
of Jesus
who
men
But
it is
found
it
all
The
and Pharisees
scribes
impossible to please
to be "
and
fault
things to
save some."
all
all
Paul found
men, that
may by
all
He now
knows
He
better.
Paul
careful
is
any
slip
on
am
who
still
means
It
It is
As
One
brother writes
me
that
writes
is
minister
make one
This very brother who so
it is
enough
whom
he so severely
criticizes.
to
found
in the
words
"
is
But Paul
open to us
unto God."
It is
life
all.
a joy to
manifests
God of Christ.
(c)
The Peril of Preaching. The joy is mixed
with sadness, for all are not saved. God is, however,
Christ.
That
glorified " in
* I
Cor.
ix, 22.
life is
them
redolent to
and
in
2
them
2 Cor.
that
xi. 12.
death
to the one a savour from death unto
Hfe."
to the other a savour of Hfe unto
knew
effect of
preaching
perishing ^
and
Paul
'
is
45
his ministry
is
like "
seemed
The idiom
The
Law
but an aroma
an aroma
The
who
human
it.
will
But that
"
There
progress out of
is
Paul
is
life
into
it
them
are saved
by
in sin
"
a bright side to the picture, for in
is
sad
men
that
the inevitable
is
On
freedom.
It is a
know
be hardened
was
figure
life.
thought
faith to faith."
from
more
life.
that
life."
There
the
joy comparable to that of witnessing
This
conversion of souls under one's own ministry.
no
is
to have
was the joy of Jesus and it is possible for us
A ministry in which souls are not saved misses
it.
It is small wonder that, in
the chief joy of service.
a ministry,
view of the solemn responsibility of such
1
2 Cor
Meyer, in
'
ii
15
f.
Rom.
^ Bernard, in
loco.
Present participle in the Greek.
loco.
John
iv.
32.
46
Paul asks
"
The Greek
And who
order
these things
is
who
is
sufficient
is
The word
Many a
preacher has
The
enough
cult
make
means
fit
of unreasonable
may
is
minister.
It
The
difficulties.
call for
no one
life
sufficient for
often surprises us
such a
question of
we
But Paul
He
does
not
"
Word
mean
that
of God.
the
He
*
By
" the
many
"
who
Paul
tree.
For
dares to
!
Judaizers.
He
God."
his thought.
com-
(d)
diffi-
is
demands of preachers.
say that he
meet
not ready
is
has sketched
stoutest heart
for
in
all sorts
"
"And
utter inadequacy to
fore the
and death
felt his
He
such a situation.
He
"
"
Paul
does not
Bernard, in
loco.
is
not
feel that
now under
he alone
is
loyal to Christ.
47
is
He
istry, as
they
ing "
is
comes
still
mean
to
do,
is
ex-
retailer or a huckster.
It
was
on top of the
The
the basket.
and show.
good
One
at the
afraid to face
men
sound to the
core.
will
be
made a
plausible plea
on two reasons.
are as
Judaizers
on top of
is
His berries
his sincerity.
bottom
He
is
not
it is
He
found out
is
as at the top.
He
to
of the betrayal of
saw a hole
(viii.
7-13) there
God by His
in the wall
found a door.
He went
In one of the
flaws.
is
a vivid picture
ministers.
Ezekiel
round about.
men
house of
And
Israel
the
them seventy
all
"
Then
48
man
dark, every
in
chambers of imagery?
his
The
In
was doing
in the sight of
He
looks at
it
God, speak we
from various
He
of his authority.
He
him.
like a
God
He
He
Gentiles.
one with
also
this
*'
made
nant;
is
is
God on
He
never
He,
less
He can
never
any one
sufficient in
from
God who
new cove-
is
us sufficient as ministers of a
the
letter,
equipped them
diamond.
the source
message, nor
not of
multi-
of the saints,
himself.
is
did
vi^as
of God,
He
in Christ."
sides.
It is just "
riches of Christ.
tell
As
*'
he
plies
He
fact,
his
for-
other reason
is
for
Jehovah hath
but of the
rest
into the
"
God
spirit."
God
ministry and
Such confidence
that
It is
fills
not
self-
Paul with
49
The
He
is
He
troduction to
when he went
them
ApoUos had,
as
for instance,
open
all
letter to
duction
is
be read of
after all a
with
all
their
very heart.
may
is
men.
a stranger.
is
an
letter of intro-
lifeless
thing.
It
The
pastor
who
words
he
calls
up the
faces
to
steel
II
**
ill.
Moses,
6-16)
who
2 Cor.
in. ij.
II
PAUL
is
representative of the
as
who
Mosaism.
It
claimed
is
Jewish propagandists.'
method
gorizing,^ a
casion.^
be
to
But
it is
that Paul
knew how
to use
alle-
on oc-
draws a wonderful
parallel in the
of Judaism
Judaism of
is
This passage
is
worthy of the
beclouded
monialism.
It
Paul's bold
ness of a
Covenant.
closest study
by the
by
sacerdotalism
and
cere-
mere sacerdotal
is
New
his day.
of
istry
exponents
the
ecclesiasticism, to-day in
Roman Churches
loco, foot-note.
3 I
Cor. X, 2
Gal.
53
iv. 25.
Bernard, in
loco,
54
condemning.
It is
in large
ister as priest
and
cleric rather
The
harm
to the ministry
any
sense.
tive
and
He
the
is
man
intensely
is
modern
The problem
in
many
which to some
dearest
others
hope
all
in
is
now
before
The
phases.
its
many
people.
calling of the
lost.
It
min-
many
of
glory for
its
of ecclesiastical
Paul
the
man who
the
It is
se.
is
man
not
privilege,
He
station.
is
per
The
people to distinguish.
how
Bonnie Scotland.*
to justify the
1
fair
flower
Numerous modern
modern
denial of Jesus in
modern
of faith
in
novels seek
its
appeal to
the picture of
with powerful
Real Glory
all
mean
to
"
Sinai,
The
He
called unto
left
Moses.
divine glory was on the face of
with
wonderful
came
to pass,
Moses
radiance
simplicity
it
forty days
These
forty nights of
of external
glory of Jehovah
and
of the
The coming
fact of the
deny the
it
effect.
I.
six days
55
and power.
mark
The
It is told
"And
it
down from
The charm
by
Hes
The "God
of
the unconsciousness of Moses.
" had appeared unto Abraham as He did to
glory
an angeF as
Stephen whose face shone like that of
in
he began to speak.
.
Cf. "
Robert Elsmere."
Acts
vii.
Gen.
It
xii. I.
2 Cor.
iii.
'
7-
'
Acts
vi.
^ Cor.
15
iii.
9-
vii. i f.
56
God on
He
himself
is
all
it
in their hearts.
"
his face.
life
to the people.
and
the chil-
all
shone
They
felt
afraid to
awe
a solemn
They
in his presence.
The
rabbis
felt
God
had a
in
fiction
mere
is
trifling.
was the
It
he
is
ministerial
There
lege, but
this
the
of course, no special
may
it is
of God."
He
his
radiant glory, no
Presence
his side
itself
preacher
with God.
is,
very work of
on
ineffable glory in
the countenance of
It is
God.
filled
had to
There
way but
is
no way to put
Aaron and
the rest to
listened
I., S.
369
f.
when
speakable responsibility
with the
is
moment
a man's soul
is
of un-
ablaze
Word
It
57
of
made upon
one
is
the soul.
able to
power.^
-cry" with
It
is
at
such
studying
- Parable of the
Poindexter preach one day on the
get away from that
Talents," and he could never
sermon.
It
questioned
if
useful service
sermon.
istry
the
him
sent
It
may be
a more
Dr. Poindexter ever performed
preaching of this
in his life than the
There
is
under God.
work
still
One way
of the ministry
is
to enlist
to pray for
more men
in
more labourers
as Jesus
to
commanded.^
tion of the
isters
a joy
1
4
6
^ Isa. xl.
' Isa. vi. 6 ff.
f
xxxiv
A. Broadus," p. 52 fRobertson, " Life and Letters of John
Matt. ix. 38 ; Luke x. 2.
Ex
6.
58
the ministry
on
own
his
is
He
head.
Lord.
That
who
is
case, but
no longer the
it is
an honour to a
2.
"
Hidden Glory
he put a
veil
on
his face."
Paul interprets
it
thus
face."
upon the
^
They
face of
felt as if
Moses
brilliant light.
who
We
smoked
resort to
took the
In-
dare
veil off
only
when he went
in to
So Moses
speak with
it
who
beheld
God
Christianity leads us
lets
'
to the
mount
of vision,
and
"
is
seen.
Moses
2
veiled the
We
face that
laren^
59
among men."
Mac-
veil, is
'*
Old
Dispensation
So, he continues,
revolves."
fire as it
partial
through a
veil, flashing
here in a
rite,
like a chariot-
revelation,
gleaming
it.
Christianity
is
is,
God
and Christian
all this.
It has,
esoteric doctrines,
no hints
possible,
no
reserve,
no use of
in-
understandings.
It
is."
plentifully to de-
^Ibid.
loco,
60
not
it
enjoy the
charge
modern
inner light
of
they did
The
Christianity.
is
istry that
it is
Either
and progress.
in
some
quarters
given to
newspaper sensation.
the preacher
As
a result
who
made
is
is
made
man who
freely
light
it
all
is
are
made
to
an unworthy calling
beheve
for a free
Hear Lord
mise
"
essential
and
makes a man's
using his
living
will
his abstaining
from
depend on
his
come when
The
by
Lord Morley
nostic,
and
is
can thus
is
6l
taken very
seri-
land,
He
istry."
says
"
They
by the
Nor
years ago.
tween
the theological
is
wider
There
is
student
now than
dents
for
gerated
may be
influence, but
Hooker and
evi-
number
of stu-
partly due
now
to
this
it
is
He
a real problem.
Church of England
"
Were
Thirlwall,
is
quarters
Dr.
its
in the
It
many
happily disappearing,
cause.
thirty-
critics
Were
were
all
On
1 Article,
" The Clergy, Conscience, and
Hibbert Journal^ Jan., 191 1.
Free Inquiry,"
The
62
among
most
the
alert,
intelli-
own and
so far as
Nor
succeeding generations.
is
there,
This
a part."
is
that they
a pertinent reply.
many men
in the ministry
is
But
to
Lord
Moses was
IMorley's charge.
the people
not
on
at first
uncon-
conduct of
of the radiance.
It
veil.
It is
was
He
no
new
light
is
He
coming, more
may come.
upon
He
God.
has
But,
upon
Modesty
He
Cross.
If
all
is
is
not
the hidden
must be wiUing to
Christ,
he
is
not called
and to go on mumbling
The door
is still
open
for
him
to
He must
when
there
63
no freedom within
is
still
on
it.
less
But there
vital issues.
is
ings
one
is
much
in
of what
movement
in the
Modernism."
It
to-day a
called "
Pope Pius
to such
is
Roman
is
true.
Then,
There
tell,
Catholic Church
its
destruction.'
we can
fore-
recorded in history."
it is
chiefly because
against medieval
is
never, unless
see
Romanism
the
did,
upon the
Christians themselves.
Roman CathoHc
priests in Italy
group of
have addressed a
in
the Present
Hour."
64
letter to Pius
they say
"
entitled "
Our
society
siders
The Church
it
foe.
con-
is
ness of nations
the priest
common, ignorant
is
insulted in public as a
and Chris-
expressions
of a decayed
tianity are
regarded as
civilization,
answer to the
ideals of
cry of
The
Roman
trouble
is
Catholic
priests
tinguish between
priest
is
men do
and preacher.
Paul
on the ministry
calling
is
not
men
to the
rupting
Men
the despairing
about Romanism.
could bind
kingdom.
to the glorious
not bound.^
is
to Christ, but
had no
fear of man.^
free.
was God's
in the Hibbert
the face.
65
any
veil
upon
who
put a
veil
means
**
upon
telling
his face."
The word
it all." ^
God
as a minister of Christ.
has
come
in Christ
and
3.
expressly
Paul
Temporary Glory
calls
attention
to
the transient
who put
" Moses,
So
Moses
Meyer ^ takes
away."
'*
Which
Paul's language to
mean
that
and
in
his
work.
would
his
him
Moses.
he said
Paul
is
in verse
2 Cor.
iii.
13.
it is
bril-
loco^
66
The language
in
a purpose to
presents
prevent the people of Israel from seeing the departure of the glory on the countenance of Moses.^
that Christ
meant by
is
is
There
is
But
no direct
made by
Paul,
is
is
beyond
Paul's
off.
Moses since he
But one
He
in
is
going
Exodus
probably
first
to
put
Then he
when he
out the
veil,
was no longer on
his
countenance.
not
made
is
How
long he
day came,
Paul.
2
Cf.
is
Rom.
X. 4.
2 Cor.
iii,
13.
Denny, 2 Corinthians, in loco. For a discussion of the interpretation of the Targums, the Septuagint, and Philo, see Bachmann,
Der Zweite Brief des Faulus an die Korinther, S. 156
5
veil.
67
away each
There
time.
there
action
is
dissipate at
pression produced.
lest
once the
story
is
real spiritual
told about a
when he was
we
is
it.
of
it,
it
but,
permanent
to have
Him, we cease
to reflect His
at all (almost
cease looking at
glory.
im-
famous
in the pulpit,
never enter
the
need of caution
may
When
inspired.
is
every minister
temporary nature of
his ministry,
he had to
hide his
teach.'
preacher
is
often tempted to
out of sight in
To
is
justifiable,
is
saying.
momentary gleam,
^
"
Moses had a
a transient brightness
Cf.
Meyer, in
loco.
we have
68
perpetual light.
But the
ness."
There
Gospel which
greatness of
revealed,
is
all,
maineth
is
and with
in the Gospel."
glory,
in glory."
**
For
if
New
Paul exults in
which passeth
message to man.
will
shall
demand
ing lost
was
its
in the
takes on
first
new
in
phases.
man
is
Gospel to-day
century.
each
The
than
new
continue to get
Nor
is
The
just the
That
Human
generation.
light
it.^
has preach-
re-
The
in Christ.
same
as
which
redemption of
Jesus
We shall
that
for the
His true
it
that
much more
Testament ministry
no higher word
true
is
The
"
God
its
is
is
we have is
own like-
light that
is
life
The
tele-
men.
loco.
'
Denney, in
Works
loco.
2 Cor.
iii.
II.
like
supply
men and
The
Christ.
of the
the place
man who
has
sin
who
minister
69
in Jesus
This
hearts.
is
heart-hunger^ of sinful
men
God
unveihng of their
for
in
all
upon
moving of the
Spirit of
for the
God.
Roman
so.
The
to speak for
call of
God and
will
may
human sympathy,
God.
system or to
to this
who can
that.
He
is
will find
not
men
face.^
4.
The
greatest spirits of
power
bound
mighty
Protestant scholasticism,^ a
of
real selves,
continue to do
knowledge of
still is.
Cf. Stalker,
'
Denney, in
It is
an argument
There
at first
from
p,
25
f.
loco.
70
.
came with
ministration
how
glory,
"
The
'
and by a
New
of the
"
Dispensation.
For
if
the ministration
much
Paul
much
New.
In
itself this
remaineth
is
in glory."
glory,
^
if
much more
less to
a self-evident proposition.
is
For
no
is
which
that
which
the greater.
New
"
For
is
Covenant that
It
of glory in the
dis-
that
such an overplus
"
verily that
the
which
by reason
in this
respect,
eth."
glory at
the
all,
New
Covenant.^
"
The
veiled
Moses represents
*' In
Luther in Dr. Kawerau's tribute to Spurgeon
the
is not enough that books should be written and read, but
it is necessary that there should be speaking and hearing.
Therefore Christ wrote nothing, but spoke everything.
The apostles
wrote little, but spoke a great deal."
Martin
Church
it
2 Cor.
2 Cor.
iii.
7 f
2 Cor.
iii.
9.
2 Cor.
iii.
il.
iii.
9.
62 Cor.
iii.
10.
2 Cor.
iii.
10.
on
abolished."
The
moon
the
rises;
"
are bright
stars
herself reigns
sky.
moon
the
till
heaven
in
till
when
which was
the sun
no other glory
is
her
in the
Paul had
already caught the vision of the conquest of Christianity and of the vanishing of Judaism
The Jews
God's
still
Word
till
Israel Zangwill
even
now
laments
ism."
Christianity
outdistance
is
John saw
crease."
What
threat-
no
rivalry, so far
does
There was no
"
He must
light
increase, but I
The
Sometimes a preacher
Christ.^
must de-
sun arose.
Maclaren,
'
Luke
John
fulfilled.^
is
Judaism.
that of Jesus
*'
rivalry
4 77^-?
by comparison.
<'
Expositions," in
is
far
loco.
its
as the
fulfillment in
sorely tested
beyond him
2
when
in use-
Denney, in
loco.
Rom.
x. 4.
iii.
30.
72
His light
fulness
Happy
may
he that reapeth
dimmed by
is
he
is
he can
if
rejoice together."
An
'
old
God
will
there
sits
*'
In that inner
eyes.
in.
It is
of
life
face,
Memory
room
his life in a
coming
ing in
'
in.
But,
The Lord
inward hour of
life."
for
shall
in the full
He
is
**
at full length,
and
the minister.
St.
own
every line of
There
is
more
it is
in his writings
life as
John
iv.
36.
which
ministers than
portrait
the portrait of
Cf.
Psalm
all
ages
cxxi. 8.
73
exalts Christianity
all
life's
Nothing
callings.
Him whose
ground of
all
an authentic
existence,
and whose
thought
is
the
will of love
is
the
life,
the
more
cultivated
and a
to be;
real
passing
general
down
themselves
let
opinion,
mind
or to
as will render
it
incapable of taking an
ence."
5.
At
its
best the
Defective Glory
its
opposed to
"
made
**
letter,
but the
but of the
spirit
giveth
spirit
life."
"^
Stalker, "
2 Cor.
6.
iii.
It is
spirit."
a min-
God
new covenant
us sufficient as ministers of a
not of the
killeth,
real glory.
It is
p. 27.
not entirely
74
clear
takes
mean
to
it
why God
made
the law
But
power.
more
it
is
among
making a
is
cision
Romans
newness of the
Jew who
In
the rabbis.
is
as in
spirit,
Romans
He
is
deemed
literalism,
by
Paul.^
but
as letter
spirituaUife
is
strangled
meant by
is
and works
when we
redeemed
Christ has
a curse for
us.
The
re-
it is
The law
We
The
man.^
spirits
and not
mean
does not
by
death.
6 he
29 he de-
ii.
letter
trast
vii.
is
letter."
Spirit of Christ
makes
become
alive
our
law, then,
In loco.
Denney, in
'
Cf.
>
and
life
law current
The
made
hath
them capable
the spirit."
Meyer'
Rom.
'
loco.
vii.
while
kills,^
7-24.
Cf.
Rom.
^
the
vi. 4.
Gal.
iii.
Spirit
Cf.
Bernard, in
10.
Rom.
quickens.^
Gal.
iii.
loco.
13.
When
tences
with
when
kill
'
'
he has supplied
and
make
mentions
plainly
" the
'
dition in Philo
it
life,
felt
in itself, yet
Paul
that righteousness
insists
2 Cor.
iii.
*Ex. xxxiv.
*2
Cor.
iii.
7 f
and
Cor.
lii.
9.
'
7.
5
29.
'Gal.
iii.
21.
Rom.
v.
It is all
There
^2
min-
is
faith.^
isters of righteousness."
" thou
it
The
sin.^
in
righteousness."
tra-
in
"
The
Sinai.
Paul had
own
contrast with
in
"
so.
as far
an effective
ministration of death,
on stones
and applies
stone,
spirit
'
he has gone
in stating
word
and
contrast."
He
'
alive,' in
letter
75
Vita Mos,
20
f.
vii,
^2 Cor.
iii.
is
2.
7-12.
xi. 15.
76
New
ministers of the
New
Dispensa-
The
is
cer-
tainty.
condemnation.
It
still
is
a terrible thing to
fall
into
ter of Christ
is
He
of old.
This
How
who
will
good things
"
them
Paul
is still
tidings of
though
is
ministers of the
"
evil,
is
pardon to sinners
God.
it
by
knew
to be
this
Isaiah.^
It is
sad
Paul's appeal
is
for
in the
men who
Sinai.
human
Heb.
ii.
Rom.
X. 15.
1-4
xii.
will carry
spirit
2
lii.
Covethe
Paul sees in
25-29.
4 Isa.
New
Heb.
cf.
from the
x.
26-31.
Nahum
i.
15.
There
Paul
life
chill
of mere formalism
out of Judaism as
it
has destroyed
is
peril in
Christianity.
sacerdotahsm that
The emptiness
in Judaism.
feared
77
spirit.
He
mere
had known by
and
religiosity
sanctity
of mere
sanctimoniousness.
Professional
He saw
in
and of personal
No
piety.
Judaism of
priest.
his day.
The
priest
meant.
vital
up
in the
the scribe.
in
The
had
priest
Love
experience of God.
the inner
life
and
crucified Jesus of
life
Nazareth
His
for
Stephen
expounded by
Jesus.
kingdom
of
God
in
official
re-
Pharisaism
78
Judaism.
in the current
upon the
Christianity of Jesus.
with
perverted Judaism
fetters of their
man was
in
jeopardy.
its
He
in the thick
is
when he draws
and
of
The
and
legalism
very
battle
spiritual
Romans.
afterwards.
difficulties of
to enter the
tianity
Christianity,
spiritual
Christianity
Galatians,
years
who
Christianity.
ceased.
of
Paul's
and
lists.
failure
Luther took
The
peril
is
it
up hundreds of
always
real.
The
The
of
some
ministers to be apostles
They should
man
or
all
who
priest, state or
innovationist.
The
if
seek to
church,
minister
he
is
will
to fight
Paul had to beat off the Judaizers with their narrowness on the one
their
79
false liberality
The preacher
life
to avoid this
empty
an
as
call
initial
may
be,
it
will
Valuable
''
ministry of growing
The soul
touch with
in
of fresh revelation.
answer
profes-
to
his
perplexities."
'
the
Religiosity
not
is
religion.
6.
The
Ineffective
of the people.
its
failure to
The
work the
story of Israel
letter of the
the Captivity
around them
in spite of
Elisha, Isaiah,
Jere-
'
But
their
God
again.
Hear Paul ^
for until
same
till
renewal
miah.
this
spiritual
again
Glory
Covenant was
is
An
veil
Stalker, "
*2 Cor.
iii.
remaineth,
it
f.
p. 53.
8o
that
it
done away
is
whensoever Moses
ple
day."
Oh,
and
see,
you a heart
to
knew when he
this
day,
this
veil
read,
is
Moses hved
heart."
But unto
Christ.
in
cried
and have
sin
of gold."^
So Paul
felt
my
Paul
my
brethren's
But
flesh."*
how
rested
hard to do.^
They had
bitter
it
its
analogue in a
had
*
Deut. xxix. 4.
Rom. ix. 3.
John i. II.
The
2 Cor.
iii.
14.
veil
on
the face of
like
tough
Moses had
veil
Paul
to the Gentiles.
very
them
knew how
it
on
*Ex.
Cf.
'Cf. Acts
his face
xxxii. 31.
44 ff.;
He
xxxii. 32.
Hebrew Tragedy."
xvii.
5;
The message
gone.
Covenant
of Moses
is
written in the
may know
he
Old
Israel
was
The
to see.
**
But
as to
spread out
my
hear.^
remain.*
veil
see
on
in the
Some
their hearts.
some beauty
of
them
Others
in Jesus.^
Moses.
are beginning to
^
The breach
is
not
all.
Some
Some,
modern
alas,
find
mammon
fear
man.
The
Heb. ix. i6 f.
Acts xxviii, 28.
Cf. Montefiore, "
'
Cf.
be-
exists.
who
life
and
that
the
own
souls,
whose hearts
are slaves to
still
have the
still
light has
God
hills.
Cf.
Eph.
18.
Rom. x. 21.
5 Rom. xi.
82
"
But whensoever
away."
By
"
"
Lord
the
it
taken
veil
indifference
What
is
No
one
is
else
can do that.
Moses and
rabbi,
of philosophy
that
will
is
in the
from
and
mammon
and
self,
from pride
Face of
Christ.
2 Cor.
iii.
6.
Ill
The
light
glory
of
Christ."
4-6)
of the
God
in
knowledge of the
the face
of Jesus
Cor. iv. o.
Ill
I.
PAUL
not probably
did
He
flesh.
once knew
know
Him
Jesus in the
means
but that expression almost certainly
once looked upon Christ as men of the
persecuted
world still do. He had once hated and
that he
Jesus.
It
is
the earthly
places,
more
"
of Jesus.
life
He
especially in the
tells
us in several
opening chapters of
Galatians, that
of historic
surely
Gardner again
fixion
much
reading
we
"
into
Paul.
Hear Professor
human
life
of his
celestial exaltation.
ment
*
John
i.
1-4
cf.
"
The Face
of Jesus," by
85
David Smith.
THE LIGHT
86
IN
the
cared
Paul
It
right
life
and
Him
than he
mere
But a
his addresses
Acts
in
show
will
all
true that
is
interpretation of
that he
Many
life.
knew
of these
life.2
No
no knowledge of the
historical Jesus.
Sanday ^
3-8) must
Luke could
(cf.
Cor.
xi.
23-25
knowledge of the
details
of the
mission of Jesus
If
life
He
of Jesus.
he understands the
is."
The
qualifications of Paul as
this
3
*
^
before us.
is
the
2 Cor.
iv.
4-6.
It
is
Christ,
87
had
him
that
his soul.
nothing
When
"
of Jesus.
"
his
but Jesus.
from
his
life.
face fol-
baptized, but he
That was
light
light."
fell
That
his
unbroken testimony
Damascus.^
That
vision."^
transcendent
all
its
experience
was the
He
Many
reality for
one moment.
who
Him.
The
and
is
No
Acts
Acts
ix.
ix.
27
xxii.
THE LIGHT
88
IN
man, but
free
No
No
Pity, un-
flitted past.
purity and
unsullied
strength.
man met
Untarnished truth
The
lies.
noblest impulses
The
flash
rific
away
like
clear
cowed
in.
with
livery of
beasts, guilty
ter-
men
and condemned.
to their hearts
not
The
which
who
There were
at the struggling
men
could see
all
that calm
and powerful
raged them.
fellows.
Its
saw
When
his
in a position to see
spirits.
face.
But
less gifted
In his after
He
artist.
of a supreme
skill
At
89
Paul had
first
He had
soul.
the
power but
its
it
He
it.
The gaze
refuted him.
its
power
it
of anger
Matheson
aptly describes
"
Remember, the
Man
heaven.
in
His
of Galilee.
meet him
heavenly splendour.
of power, a Christ
He came
What
to
his inner
in
who came
that
it
saw
him panoplied
first
first
earliest vision
and wreathed
He
Paul
a Jesus glorified.
Christ
whom
Christ
The famous
first
Matheson, "Representative
Ibid., p. 343.
Men
wonderful
Christian image in
It is interesting
of the
New
Testament,"
how
p. 335.
THE LIGHT
90
IN
memory from
He
Moses had
me,
pray thee,
Thy
and
And
live.
come
shall
thee with
back
My
cleft
face
Me
a place
is
it
have passed by
and
shall
not be seen."
it
This
marks the
when Moses
said
"
My
poetic imagery
said,
Behold there
My
Show
And He
man
'
until I
My
for
said.
shalt stand
hand
away
but
face
to pass, while
My
take
will
My
put thee in a
will
glory.
Jehovah
in his
is
differIt
is
God
itual reality.
as Paul
saw God
"
for " face
''
in the face
24.
Christ.*^
It
1 1
i.
Cf.
Matheson,
umes.
8
Num.
Cor.
xiv. 14.
xiii.
12; 2 Cor.
4
ii.
10
2 Thess.
i.
9.
Two
vol-
iv. 6.
QI
mirror
through a
time when he would no longer see
baffling enigma,
as through a puzzUng and
'
The Image of
2.
God
"
who is the image
Paul expressly speaks of Christ,
2
By this term Paul means much more than
of God."
God^ Man in his power bears
moral likeness to
It is the destiny of
the image and glory of God.^
the Son of God. But
believers to bear the image of
similarity
here presents not the idea of mere
He
but the
It is the
of God7
representation and manifestation
moral excellence of Jesus
divine nature and absolute
as in Colossians i. 15*.
that Paul has here in mind
invisible God, the first"
is the image of the
evidently come
born of all creation." Paul had
was worthy to be called
to see that Jesus Christ
Acts xx. 28, in
God. Indeed, the correct text of
elders, has - Church
Paul's address to the Ephesian
with His own blood."
of God which He purchased
punctuaRomans ix. 5 the most natural
Who
So
in
"
tion has
1 I
...
Cor.
Col.
4 T
xiii,
iii.
Tor
Or
God
xi
blessed
forever " in
apposition to
22
,^
12.
10;
^,
likenesl'
'
Cor.
iv. 4.
.,
P^iil- "i-
2^' ...
^
I^O"^' ^"^' ^9
THE LIGHT
92
**
concerning
Christ
IN
the
who
flesh,
is
over
all."
Christ existed
before
in
in
the
heaven
Whatever the
is
clear
He
*'
He
on
in
earth.^
heaven as
He
If
case of Paul as of
*
If
we ask how
all
whose
believers to-day
human
a psychological sketch."
is
Lodge
indeed
when he
we do
says
make
the
we must
not know.
finds
how
no objection on
through
scientific
that
grounds to the
make
in order fully to
^ phU.
Phil. ii. 6.
2 Cor. viii. 9.
" Person and Place of Jesus Christ," p. 320.
"Jesus or Christ" {Hibbert Journal Supplement for
p. 119.
it,
It is reassuring at
a Divine Spirit
went
he looked.
rate to see
here.
though he
any
face
actual condition of
the form
man
fact.
We
real
He had
was a
ii.
7.
1909),
realize
93
of the free
permitted to exist.
and human
know
And
this individualized
we
man hke
as Jesus of Nazareth, a
ourselves,
it
and
word from a
In
alien will."
may
first
finality
interpreters' specula-
than
can
their
cosmology."
projected
Sir Oliver
made
human
Dr.
still
Case
believe
Himself into
One
tions
He
of
Christ.
history."
is
a bold suggestion.
He
not afraid of
We may
But
never
Dr. Sanday
takes advantage
of the
new
self to
1 Prof.
S. J. Case, of the Divinity School of the University of
Chicago, Biblical World, Jan., 191 1, p. 8.
THE LIGHT
94
of Jesus has
human
its
calls this
Christology."
Natures, but
It is
notion "
Tentative
most assuredly
attractive
Two
He
nature.'
Modern
IN
doubtful
is
it
if
after all
it
would
all
one
will
But
it is
faith in
more than
likely
own
may have no
The
facts.
is
in a
more
We
shall
As
human
of Christ.
either
God.
in
It is
a matter of fact,
nature
we do not understand
we
are
somewhat
the two.
Scientists like
Ramsay make no
mate
Sir
William
qualities of matter.
Theologians
may
ulti-
well be
no doubt
is
" It
Jesus.
He had
at
all
not putting
is
as to
it
Him
put
who have
race,
is
men
Him
for
Him, and
classified
and
his passion."
won
To
God.
is
But
spirit.
in a series
95
God which
'*
We
would grow
It
'
has
might
faint
and
'
That one
face, far
Or decomposes, but
to recompose.'
its
There was
Christ."
1
The Glory of
its
God
God
in the face of Jesus
strange,
enduring permanence,
3.
its
iv. 6.
THE LIGHT
96
glory of God.
*'
IN
Paul
upon the
Moses
face of
For a
careful
Hebrews
He
i-6.
iii.
is
At
came
and horses of
fire
" a chariot of
Elijah
Elijah
was not
looked
The
divine.
face of
Jesus
is still
Son
" Behold,
part of His
is
in the Incarnation
way
Paul in a marvellous
of Christ.
In his exaltation
That
of man."
glory .^
But
and
Stephen had
He said
an angel.
fire,
pictures the
way.
Jesus
in
^2
2 Cor. iii. 7.
*C{. Heb. iii. i-io.
John
He was
of Abraham ^ and
xiv. 6.
just to
stair-
In His humanity
the seed
to God.
God.^
It is like
Jesus
Kings
ii.
to
is
11.
make
possible free
com-
Acts vi 15
Phil.
"
">
vii.
ii.
Heb.
56.
5-9.
ii.
16.
Men
.^
97
made
little
glory
cause of the suffering of death crowned with
honour, that by the grace of God He should
and
man."
Peter
am
glad to
if
in
he wrote the
know
the view
is
For
He received
there
from God the Father honour and glory, when
pleased
and
My
is
this voice
out of heaven,
mount."
beloved
This transfiguration
before
the
borne
ourselves heard
Father
we
Him
in the
holy
was a temporary
Incarnation.^
when
glory
by His return
restoration of that
to the Father.
"
We beheld
his
His glory,
Word became
"^
John
Mark
t;
ix. 2.
John
xvii. 5.
flesh
^^^*
2 Pet
'
i.
and
" ^*
i6-i8.
John
1.
14.
98
THE LIGHT
dwelt
among
John
IN
Whether
is
He
we do not know.
this witness.
As
look of Jesus.
in the
And
amazed
it
glory "
His
fested
glory of
if
No man
It
He
who
God
God
and
is
But
He
mani-
the grave
I
not unto
bosom
The
as
it
was not
any time
at
the
in
is
Said
He was
hath seen
gotten Son,
*'
read
God ? " ^
"
By
miracles.
thee that,
afraid."
life
by His
we
Jesus
of thoughts
full
of the
Father,
manuscripts
best
In His humanity
only begotten."
really
Jesus
God's
Word
He
of
God
final
interpretation
has
to
Mark
John
x. 32.
i.
18.
2
6
I,
for
John
John
ii.
my
8
"
flf.
full
He
is
and
the
11.
xiv.
the
men.
is
made
if I
New
the
World."
God
glory of
This
'
He
is
99
the Columbus of
is
if
one
may
'
Christ
4.
This
the
is
carefully chosen.
Lord
Christ Jesus as
way Paul
It is
preached.^
The words
are
may have
which
combated
is
But that
is
in Colossians^
and Ephesians.
Christ.
the
of
left
He
merely
Him
The
at
any
He
"Expositions
of
Holy
ference to Gnosticism.
lan-
Scripture," 2
.'
identi-
Corinthians,
^ Cor.
iv. 5.
any
re-
;:
THE LIGHT
lOO
IN
whom he
He was
fies
Jesus
"
man
the
Jesus, the
among
certain
The
of Christ.
The
Docetic
Gnostics
His
rejected
humanity.
Paul
the
God- man.
interpretation?
Paul's
The
interpretation.
stood Jesus.
" Let
hath made
ye
known
reality
other apostles
Him
know
of Pentecost
assuredly that
crucified."
or merely
had so under-
sources
modern
this
If
of the
criticism, either
The
God
this Jesus
life
of Christ according to
(the
Logia of Matthew)
is
all
whom
Is
He
Lord
the Apocalypse
is
Acts
'
Cf.
ii.
New
The
36.
to
Selbie,
'
Aspects of Christ."
Biblical
lOI
same point
It is
a lame conclusion to
in his "
in fact.
ical Jesus."
the lake-side,
not."
He came
None
Men come
He
*'
comes
by
as of old,
to those
are so blind as
to Christ to-day, as
own heads.
who can get out of
The sun
the fog.
The very
It is
of Christ "^
" greatness
critical interpretation
sible.
all
difficult
and
in a sense
makes
impos-
But
in the sun.
is
We
light
"
The
"
Place of Christ in
must use
freely
We
The
Life of
an interesting topic,
Modern Theology."
Jesus Christ.
^ is
"
for the
have nothing to
new
hght.
all
interpretation
of
Evolution
fear.
Confined within
New
variations in the
Testament, and criticism of the sources have
thus combined greatly to strengthen the argument for the truth of
Sanday.
ff.
Fairbairn.
I02
THE LIGHT
human
tions
limits,
He
IN
is
view Him,
direct us to
He
is
It
is
all
But
who
has
Some
deny the
Germany
there
is
It is
assumed that
historicity of Jesus
is
a controversy over
Other
make
critics
admit
Christ a matter of
faith.
a good
day.
is
critics
In
altogether.
one
point
rate
The
criticism
any
at
man named
Jesus
who
is
Him
by
He
Nietzsche,
rail
at
as the
in the
world
still
s For
p, 14.
1909.
3Cf. Biblische Zeitschrift, 1910, S. 415-17, for bibliography of
this discussion; also American Journal of Theology, Jan., 191 1.
Lord
glory.
of
103
Son of
away from Paul and back
'
to Jesus,'
it,
God
of
first
at
many
appeared
brilliant
picture
When
Ecce
Homo
the
fuller
and
But
study of
qualified
really
is
to
study
the
history.
The
who have
glory."
which
To
" for in
Him
head bodily."
is
Christ
in
is
among
the
hope
of
you, the
Paul Christ
is
dwelleth
all
* Forrest.
J
Col.
ii.
9.
The
Col. ii. 2.
^ Col. i. 27.
Christ of To-day " (G. Campbell Morgan)
is
THE LIGHT
I04
5.
This
IN
Paul's Christology
is
Romans ^
"
of
My
The hght
"
of the Gos-
He speaks twice in
He means by that
Gospel."
to preach to men.
It is
seen in
its fullest
Romans, but
more or
little
less
fullness
There
is
found with
is
it
expression
if
No
Christ.
message of doubt
he had the
knowledge
Paul
of Jesus Christ
who had
felt
He knew
and holy
trust
Paul
felt
He
told
was committed to
my
trust."
"
God
make
it
that a high
To
catch but a
to
burn forever
is
known."
2 Cor.
"Rom,
iv.
who
'
Gal.
i.
2 Tim.
'
II
cf.
Gal.
ii.
Rom.
ii.
16,
i.
No one
He has
cf. iv. 6.
XV. 19.
Timothy
God which
16 ; xvi, 25.
Gal. i. 6-10.
7.
St.
Paul," p. 14.
I05
fs
He
is
It
'
in life that
the exponent of
But
liberty
*'
is
To
set us free."
give up Christ
is
to
bondage of the
or the
ample
for the
modern
Paul
letter.
is
here an ex-
to sail
There
is
Paul.^
his
eye on Christ.
He grew
in
apprehension of Christ,^ as
his
of salvation
tinct "
2 Cor.
by grace through
mental growth
"
faith.^
Redeemer and
There
is
a dis-
perceptible in Paul as he
3
xi. 4.
Gal. v.
i.
Bruce,
See DuBose, " The Gospel According to St. Paul "
" St. Paul's Conception of Christianity "
Somerville, " St. Paul's
"
Dykes,
Conception of Christ " ; Stevens, " Pauline Theology
' The
Gospel According to St. Paul " Anonymous, " The Fifth
Gospel, The Pauline Interpretation."
^ See
Matheson, " Spiritual Development of St. Paul "; Sabatier,
' The Apostle Paul."
5 Robertson, " Students' Chronological New Testament."
Acts xiii, 38 f.
' Fairbairn, " Studies in Religion and Theology," p.
535.
3
fi
THE LIGHT
Io6
IN
He became
before the
human mind.
intellectual
expounder of Christ
He had
that to-day.
is
who
the greatest
He
in all history.
is
He
knowledge of the
was able
glory of
God
man.
The
It filled
6.
He
in his heart.
Genesis
Lux
i.
" It
3.^
is
a reference to
in the hearts of
men."
ning.7
The
life
was the
came
Light
it
not."
the world
"
2 Cor.
'
The word
2 Cor.
">
John i. 3 f.
John xii. 46.
Cf.
light
" I
"
came.
am the light
am come
iv. 6.
Col.
i.
New
16
f.
a light into
of the world."
iv. 4.
the
But men
when the
the
became so used
see
And
men.
light of
John
i.
'"
2 Cor.
iv. 6.
Testament.
Bernard, in
f.
And
"
loco.
John xii.
w John viii.
cf.
35.
12.
is
world, and
men
is
107
come
into the
works were
is
evil."
"
Look
therefore
Isaiah
that,
that
light.^
**
The god
of
who
them."
God
let
word
It
was
daybreak
like
in
its
place.
only
**
your
hearts."
in our hearts.
The
It is
daybreak
'
God
a squalid,^
It is
is
a blessing
special use
arise in
in
our souls.
We
no
all
>
like
disciples of Jesus.
'
was
It
The
in.
until the
^
In a dungeon a lamp
dark place.
of untold comfort.
This
dawn upon
is
Luke
xii.
2 Cor.
2 Peter
vi. lO.
35.
iv. 4.
i.
19.
THE LIGHT
I08
IN
visible
It
all
that
man
had seen,
before, he
all
to
whom
Love
of God, as completely as
them."
'
He
man
could understand
made
dim by com-
else
have believed."
"
And
it
" in Christ."
all
is
now
is
no longer
crucified
The key-word
of Paul's
life
That
That did
Christ.
He
least.
is
life.
Others
scientific
and modern
as
own
Christ.*^
experience.
perfect
in
well,
principle.
It is
no
William James *
Denney, 2 Corinthians,
2 Tim. i. 12.
p. 153.
'
Acts
xxii, 11
xxvi. 13.
ii. 20.
iGal,
Die Neutesta
who
With Paul
was an illumination
gives
it
and
the
all
109
Christ
Hfe.
light that
real
is
any man
has.^
for
dure
much
conflict.*
is
tures
heaven
the Lamb."
is
peculiar
He
if
no one need
in
John
Testament.
God
of the Cross
mean
respect.
is
central
that his
The
is
own
rather,
he
despair.^
pic-
it,
does not
this
who
The image
The dynamic
argues that,
New
did lighten
mind.^
in Paul's
case
as
God
glory of
just
that the
It
men
is
The
self-
when the
"
repent and put the " righteous
to shame.^
Eph.
"
Cf.
5
'
i.
18.
The adequacy
2
John
i.
9.
Heb.
vi. 4.
Eph. i. 18.
Rev. xxi. 23; xxii. 5.
Clow, " The Cross and Christian Experience."
Tim. i. 14-16.
Luke V. 30 f. Cf. Begbie, " Twice-born Men," and " Souls in
Cf.
Cf. 2
Action."
no THE
tion lies in
power
to
meet
"
bad homiletics
preacher
in
7.
is
this
guilt of sin."
is
full
by a preacher,
Judaizers in Corinth
Paul
who
is
sure to reveal
is
It
it
commend
"
the
is
himself.
as well as
of himself, for he
numberless ways.
That
themselves
selves,
them
in
viz.,
right.
themselves.
mind.
They
to the
They do preach
themselves.
It is
had
And
and bickerings.
is
the theme
" and
himself
sake."^
He
of his brethren.
man
It
was much
so to describe himself.
But
come
was
into his
for this
own
III
purpose that
face
Ught of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
^
He had faced Christ and must reof Jesus Christ."
flect
was
He
darkness.
the glory of that Face to others in
for
pass on the light. Paul knew " The Passion
to
Souls"
"for
That
is
fit
The hunger
Men know
it
after
of the preacher
is
Christ.
inquiry
of the heart
He must
:
is
He
Christ.
for
The need
just this.
vision to Christ.
pathetic
describes
characterization of ministers
of Christ.
Face of
Matheson
Sake."
the Twelve
pity."*
Jesus'
turn the
man
without the
Philip with a
see
Jesus."
to
Strange to say PhiHp did not introduce them
He went instead to Andrew. Together they
Jesus.
it to
could not unravel the problem and brought
centre.
the
It touched the heart of Christ in
Jesus.
The
mind
at once.
come
to
Thus
Him,
for
between Jew
thus would the middle wall of partition
and Gentile and both and God be broken down.^
The modern
minister stands
3 j.
2 Cor. iv. 6.
Matt. XX. 28.
Studies of the Portrait of Christ," Vol. II, p. 83.
5Johnxii.2i.
H.
Jowett.
.
6Eph.ii.
112
THE LIGHT
masses
just to
Christ,"
" Sir,
IN
we would see
" to
be willing
though that
is
much.
must himself
talk
is
Jesus."
It is
not enough
One must be
modern men.
for Jesus
Face of
But
"
borrowed wings."
1
No
**
he
Paul
Denney,
first
able to
IV
We
all,
IV
THE
It is in
face."
who
Paul means
is
all
Christians,
applied
specifically
"
open face
"
we have
the privilege of
believers
all
we
"
''
all
this
it is
is
the Gospel:
of
ministers
to
By
face.
ministry."
It is
preeminently true
because of necessity he
face
"
God
with
Holy
Christ.
in
The
has his
minister
Where
I.
One
is
Lord Is
this phrase.
tionary, tied to
to have in
Some
mere
mind the
tradition.
minister himself.
Spirit of the
There
is
'
2 Cor.
iv. I.
iii.
The man
will die
away
7, 13.
"5
into
by the use of
2 Cor.
iii.
17.
as
Il6
He
with Moses.
He
honour.
is
is
of recognition which
He
tions.
is
bondage of the
His
(condemnation, death).
letter
is
minister
upon
his face.
is
his heart
empty
and
The
life.
There
of fear.
no
is
He
Spirit-
is
veil
fellow-
able to
Dr. Sanday
to others.
type
of "
is
mere negation.
it
it is
that
much
Ritschlianism
facts
is
and professes
God as a
He very probably was not God in
That
is
at
may
of the
*
comfort in treating
to this
Him
so.
find
The concession
issue involved.^
is
self as
the locus
already urged as
it
That
hearted Christianity.
and
of doubt
free
to
do
fear.
"
right.
is
bondage
makes
us really
is
easy.
Love makes
it
half-
love that
It is
he
of a Ritschlian than
demand
does not
II7
anity.^
He
up
it
" because
who came
in,
may
are always on
in
in Christ
There
Son
therefore the
free indeed."
know the
The only
shall
make you
Jesus put
it
real
glories in his
emancipation
Paul
is
is
free,
also thus
the truth.
is
"
shall
Ye
make you
in the truth,
be
shall
free."
He
fetters of Pharisaism.
all fact
and
Jan., 1910,
p. 136.
2
8 Ibid.t
and Jesus
no blind obscurantist.
Shailer Matthews,
ye
" If
Christ.
p. 216.
John
viii.
32.
Il8
truth with
No
heart.
one has
opened by the
some
Spirit of
mere
But that
is
meant
man who
in Christ
life
ble
refuses to face
is
where the
not
that.
It is
of
Spirit of
Certainly the
life.
Lord
means simple
is.
"
is
only possi-
The Lord
is
the
identification of Jesus
The thought
Spirit.
not what
in medicine, science,
Such freedom
free.
Spirit of the
and the
all
is
by the
to be
Christ.
traditionahsts, ob-
is
not so simple as
is
The
of Christ to men.
minister
is
There
rules.
and
is
to
expound
principles, not
mere
life.
face.
him
try
is
as
is
>
2 Cor.
F.
W.
iii.
"
Ours should be a
i6.
etc., p.
II9
but boldness
whose very
free fearlessness
because
it
is
a ministry
ment, no reserve
life
is
outspokenness, and
safe
in failure,
world
which
made him
free.' "
'
Paul
i.
f.)
or
is
rejoices
spirit
all
The
Christ
may be envy
is
Transformation
He
is
no mere theory
with unveiled
image."
1
F.
worth
W.
preached
of Paul (Phil.
and
all,
in contrast to
There
truth has
mere pretense.
2.
of
when
is
"
etc., p.
675.
Cf.
We
2 Cor.
iii.
18.
all,
We
Words-
"
I20
"
The analogy
we
of
Corinthians
when we
had no
shall see
veil
God and
it
on
Him
as
till
we meet Him
He
true,
*'
is.^
He
however, that
this
word
mind.
in glory
his face as
we shall not
true that
It is
"For now
12:
xiii.
is
expressly
It
men-
doubtless
is
to be thus translated
Image
of God.
It is
no
mere
his-
Spirit of
in
No
work
life.
actual
There
will suffice to
and
fills
study of the
is
The
God
transformation
is
wrought by the
from the
veil, is
of glory.^
final assimilation
The
mation
^ is
a remarkable one.
It is
we
The new
life
is
a mirror."
ishes
when we
also,
It
is
of righteous-
which beholds
an impossibility van-
it is
faith,
we now
the glory of
ception of Christ
all
many
is
in
"
is
is
Ibid.
^Ibid,
To
of
modern thought
Per-
But
my
sonality
"
The reahty
universe.
God
is
is
Christ,
in
Sun
mind and
by the eye of
takes place
like
consider that
represented as a
grows by looking
Him.
What seems
is
It
look
ness.
It
are undergoing.
process.
It
the
is
121
Holy
Holy
122
had
Jesus
life."^
Henceforth
definitely
Jesus
my
Lord,"
consumed
Christ
to
is
figured
by the
Christ in him,^
by
his hfe
the
is
which
qualified
Spirit of Christ,
if
and words.
first
^
He
Jesus.
"
experience of
this
men about
tell
to
whom
minister, to
Paul.
know Him,"
all this
knowledge of Christ
his
bition.3
hold on
laid
This
is
to
Face of
it.
There
mysticism.
by the
comes
It
is
is
is
no magic
Thus the
of Christ.
Spirit
There
Thus the
to the soul.
human
is
spirit
vision of Christ
vision
is
continued.
The
the
work of
Christ in our
own
hearts
As we have
are
all
of
mirrors to
Christ.*'
Reflection
is
no doubt that
Richard Brook, The Interpreter, Jan., 1911, art, " The Living
Christ
<
these
work
Rom.
Phil.
57.
iii.
e
12.
cf.
Phil.
iii.
8-14.
Bachraann, in
loco.
this
calls
" as
23
a mirror the
Stanley^
in
lives
Moses
are unlike
his,
of
its
the
reflected
Moses received
presence, as
glory
it
on
of the divine
his countenance,
they have no
in that
fear,
such as
its
The
Christian puts
conceal.
His
life is
on no
veil for
no
is
is
he has nothing to
at least a reflection,
and power of
life
is
He
perfect, but
"
There
is
is
on us
We
reflection
'
'
light of
strike
it.^
He says,
is
2 Corinthians, in loco.
Maclaren, " Expositions of Holy Scripture," in loco.
* Horn. VII on 2 C<K
Denney, 2 Corinthians, in loco.
*Denney, in
loco.
124
we behold
If
we
are trans-
we
are transformed,
is
there to be seen.
he abideth
saith
even as
He
in
walked."
have to submit.
Him
when he
it is
cerity
Even
"
ye which are
spiritual, restore
message^
if
in
after
John
fault,
spirit
thou also be
lest
'
It
when
is
It
ii.
a critical
moment
to
in the history of
Everything de-
6.
Acts XV. 38
call "
of frequent
spite
their eyes,
the soul
de-
overtaken in a
looking to thyself
we
which
such an one in a
hght."
that
pearance.
open
He
"
to the light
It
man be
stumblings.
says
up
mand
tempted."
only the
of meekness
if
But
'
no
It is
we
is
There
veil to
glory
image.
reflect that
If
2 Tim.
Gal.
iv. 1 1.
is
taken.
3
vi. i.
6
Mark
Men's
xvi. 7.
18.
Acts xxvi.
125
eyes are often opened, and yet they do not turn from
Who among
darkness to light.
loathed himself,
and
lips,
to
for a
and
man
to describe
to
it
others to forsake
know
pos-
It is
his
and has
a flash
in
as to rouse
it
There
is
much
to
And
then to
not accord-
ing as
But here
is
at
His
trial
John
Peter
in
Him
that of recovery.
men His
impart to
has
done
it
momentum
does only
It
of His Spirit.
harm
One
thing
is
certain.
It
which we
He
f.
126
Hypocrisy
do not possess.
most
forth the
way
only
words uttered by
terrible
God
be hke Him.
we
is
There
in Christ
no need of a
is
and glory, no
our
"
from men.
failure
"
Ye
veil
to
is
long as
veil so
The
Jesus.'
If
we
can hide
Even so
your
let
light shine
before men."
Perseverance
4.
"
We faint not,"
human
says Paul.
insufficiency "
He is
uttered in Corin-
answering
thians
ii.
tone.
16.
The
for "faint."
still
best attested
be weary in well-doing
reap^
if
we
with
"
And
let
difficulties
word
also in
us not
due season we
There are
faint not."
in a ministry
in the
word* occurs
vi.
for in
triumphant
in a
it
shall
enough
all this
When
Paul
is
a prisoner in
Rome
grown
"
discouraged
Wherefore
by
reason
his
troubles:
my
tribula-
Matt, xxiii.
'
* Cf.
of
evil.
2 Cor.
293.
Eph,
in St. Paul," p.
God
iv. I.
jij,
i^.
"
He
1 27
did this
when he was an
at
work.
to
could
mean
to "
abandon one's
no examples of just
hard to overcome.
first
at
but
used for
Perga the
and go on
flush of the
he faced
is
to the
is
the
romance
"^
work
perils of rivers
is
give up and
easy just to
It is
But it
cowardly surrender.
quit.
self to badness,"
and
is
when
perils of
John
the world's
have
this
spiritual
who
ministry,"
says
Paul
afraid at
this
It is
ministry of
the muck-raker
Elisha's servant
grew
and chariots
And
"Therefore seeing we
need of Him.
'*
Alas,
my
master
for
how
shall
we do ?
128
are
us
eyes of the
may
full
power of Christ
this
vision,
And
see.
young man
"
and he saw
and, behold,
Oh,
for the
we
obtained
that.^
Paul had
no
waver.
There
march.
The ground
is
if
mercy."
The
fire
of the
vision
even as
And
Lord,
said,
He
true leader
of Paul's cheer
onward
not in the
is
It
Look
and you
at Jesus
will
And
let
us not be
weary
season
we
shall reap,
if
"
In Chapter
we
go on with your
in well-doing
task.
for in
due
faint not."
Here
is
a reply in the
who
same
journal
" Dear William
I have not a doubt that all
your causes of discouragement are real, and hard to
:
but I am
You have been
bear
you
'
a fresh grip.
*2 Cor.
i.
13, 16.
iv. I.
129
'
'
amount
salaries regularly,
I confess,
'
and
in sufficient
pre-
'
them the
just as before
Israel.
The words,
'
The
'
130
suffer-
which we endure
"
Do
"
Renunciation
craftiness,
deceitfully."
This
heart and
life.
at
Judaizers
bitter
a very remark-
is
able
13I
Corinth
of
full
Christ.
He had
shame be gone.
He
light.
are
all
The
preacher's heart
works
One who
"
"
come
If
to the
you
light.
receptacle
the
plots,
Renounce the
lift
from the
ecclesiastical
a good
is
flee
not to be
is
vengeance,
to
private
of
The
devil
impure
and
all
" business
and
make
real
it
"
slumming
"walking
in craftiness."
The word
resort to
any
for craftiness^
Renounced.
The Prayer-Book.
is
practice to carry
2.
iv. 5,
One
132
He
best
work
God
is
The
with
in the open.
That
He
his strength.
is
The
veil.
word of God
other particular
deceitfully."
is
Both of
Word of God.
He is never hap-
The
pier than
"
when he can
And no
into
marvel
of
on the coast
God
own
to their
The Word
of
God
calls for
He
juggler of words.
serious
frankness of
argument
God.
It
is
very work
mind and
We
first
to spread
is
in life
of Christ
iii.
*'
2 Cor.
no
Observe
St. Paul's
Word
;
for
of
our
throw sunshine on
light, to
no consequences
lo.
is
heart.
way
essen-
truth, to dread
Pet.
is
is
honesty
The prophet
a true preacher.
tial in
Cf.
honesty of interpretation
Intellectual
and exposition.
selfish
poses.
mere
to ruin are
Word
for
light."
an angel of
false lights
for
xi. 15.
no
real minister
2 Cor.
ii.
17.
who
I33
The man
He
down.
looks
all
men
in the eye.
6.
"
This
is
pohcy
Paul's
a minister of
as
the Judaizers.
tricks,
of commendation,^
mended himself by
truth
all
may
see.
"
with truth.
The
The
We
all
is
kingdom
you
things to
goes well
in truth."
He
that of truth.
Pilate
for
removed that
preacher's province
call to
The word
lid is
The word
spake
sorts of
He com-
truth.
full
means unconcealed.
all
true.
the
viz.,
of
conduct of
has no
who
is
all
truth both
F.
W.
<Cf. 2 Cor.
Cf. I Cor.
xi. 10,
xii. 7.
all
'2 Cor.
628.
^Cf. 2 Cor.
Scien-
etc., p.
iii.
i.
2 Cor.
vii.
14.
134
tific
itself is
not the
Certainly philosophy as
The
minister
fest
is
The
in theory.
is
is
to mani-
is
not
ethics,
speculative
The preacher
grips
the
misses the
He
of men.
conscience
to intel-
of the imagination
and the
appeal to
safety,
or emotions.
The conscience
will
'
conscience can
The
is
"
Christ.
trines taught
like."^
It is
is
at
on the doc-
Clothed with
man's heart.
It is this
makes the
that
Men
are so
God.
The
evil heart
all
that
who can
*
Pros.
truth
comes
real preacher
as a rude shock.
truth.
and
" It
is
the
Light shines on
is, all
feel,
Bernard, in
loco.
The evidence
who
of the sun
he has redemptive
So
dial.
If
I35
is its
Christ
is
Hght
divine
It is well also if
truth.
is
distinctly secondary.
is
The
Professor
disappearing.
won
fair
worthy of study.
philosophy
It
will ever
is
by no means
understand
itself
certain that
We
religion.^
need
"
not seek to define more closely Paul's use of " truth
He
is
moral judgment of
He makes
man and
does
it
truth.3
7.
**
And
them
even
if
that perish
Veiled Gospel
our gospel
:
in
whom
is
veiled,
the
God
it
is
veiled in
of this world
who
is
the
Paul
F.
136
truth,
who heard
if
had declared
Gospel of
his
There
There
for those
no
is
no
veil
over
New
veil
There
Covenant.
veil
no
is
preached by Paul.
But
veil
it is
many who
he
ix.-xi.
will
true to His
which Paul
this
read Moses
It is
a sad
In Romans
how God is still
he interprets as the
The
Christ.
real Israel of
spiritual
promise and
The
Israel included
confronted.
is
who
in Jesus.'
soon be explaining
Word though
is
situation with
is
Every
work.
"
ineffective secret, to
again.
beyond doubt,
his full
The
it
again and
duty.
He
is
appalling."
It is
sometimes
done
fulfilled)
" Short
'
hear
an impotent
many who
secret,
137
ness.
made here by
He
Paul.
What he
for himself.
his
moments
But that
is
of sorrow
says
is
that
many have
wil-
They have
minds
so
let
that
" the
they
god of
this
world
who
Sammael "
who was
spirit
He
cannot understand.
He was
This warning
mammon
is
called
the evil
is
Israel.'
Paul
of their belly .^
now when
men as is
mad race for money at the cost of prinof men and women, law and order, love
seen in the
ciple, virtue
.^
religion, resents
flesh,
Wetstein, in
John
Luke
xii,
loco.
31.
xvi. 14.
Cf.
Bernard, in
if
no
effort
loco.
'Phil.
^ I
Tim.
iii.
19.
vi. 10.
138
made
is
make people
to
" the
by Paul
rightly called
really spiritual
god of
and good,
The
this age."
amazing success
is
in putting
Denney
Hear
life.
neglect
"
spiritual
What
itself
aspirations
and
sleepy conscience,
world
'
"
too
it is
them
As
much
already explained,
that perish
'
in
"
by the perishing
by
is
it
it,
to call Satan
in
things
it
possible that
be taken as
At any
by which." ^
rate
men
all
the world
ness, excited
God
see
by
in
the
Isaiah's
its
pleasures, petrified
find their
its
its
busi-
maxims,
"
Jesus
prophecy.
2 Corinthians,
<
by
and
'
Men who
radiance of eternity
in
"
p. 156.
F.
W,
8.
By
phrase
this
velopment of
Glory
to
he aptly
all
who keep
Christ.
The joy
those
I39
in constant
of his
life
He had
progress.
touch
was the
a holy dis-
God
The
himself.
is
to quote
this
Spirit,
is
he
here
J.
am
glad
Wilbur Chapman:
is
like Jesus,
God
dissatisfied
Paul
more
ence.
'
of Jesus the
in Christ Jesus."
to
men.
minister's
ground of
minister
rightly,
It is
development
manifest to
The
rejoicing.
when a
That
is
God dehght in a
handle the Word of God
saints of
all.^
for
iii.
18.
Phil.
2 Tim.
iii.
14.
ii.
15, 21.
Tim.
iv.
15.
140
progress.
development may be
least conscious of
it.
spiritual
Certainly
who
who
into
That man
will see
more
of the Cross.
day " we
even as
be
shall
He
is."
like
Him
for
'
1 1
John
iii.
2.
we
shall see
Some
Him
" But
7-1s)
we have
this treasure in
earthen
of the power
may be
from ourselves."
Cor. iv. 7.
"
EARTHEN VESSELS
THE HUMAN LIMITATIONS
THIS TREASURE IN
I.
is
ITtween
the glory of
God
men
is
conveyed to
" is
case or also
by taunts of
personal weaknesses/
his
Later
the
in
Epistle
own
Paul
him and
his
work
in
"
Corinth.
For
his
letters,
is
is
of no account."
unknown
have no support
are suggested
by Galatians
iv.
15
"
weak eyes
Ye would have
he did once,
*
See Meyer, in
if
But
loco,
and Bachmann, in
143
loco.
2 Cor.
x. 10.
144
you
my
in
flesh "
'
spised.
been welcomed.
"
would have
and
bodily imperfections
He had no
limitations.
He
fects.
had
"thorn
his
how
bond
delicate
learned
union
of
pleasure in weaknesses,
persecutions,
for
when
am
in
He
with
in
injuries,
for
distresses,
weak, then
even
am
in
to
(a
thus
and
Paul),
burden,
was
it
who have
ministers
all
to bear his
in
because his
it
in
blessed ignorance
a
"
had
**
take
necessities,
sake;
Christ's
strong."
To
his
answer
power
is
"
My
grace
made
is
in weakness."
perfect
experience.
his
Some
preaching.
had
for
My
That hard
to learn
by long
" His
speech
is
of
no account."
letters rather
Gal.
iv. 14.
Paul
than deprecia-
made no
claim
2 Cor.
Cor.
* I
xi.
ii.
30.
2.
2 Cor.
xii. 10.
and
in
" I
men.
all
I45
much
And my
trembling.
fear,
speech and
my
Gospel, one
and
persecutor,
injurious."
" a
blasphemer, and a
He
still
There may
himself to
felt
have been an
enemies in
this
comparison.
for himself, if
knows how
exquisite suffering in
He
is
he
many
not able to
he has the
is.
spirit
There
a minister's heart as a
One must
least of all
The note
not be oversensitive,
that
"There
sympathy.
less of
is
is
the chord of
polemical argument,
his
own
feel-
"We
Epistle/'^
sels."
1 I
Cor.
It
ii.
is,
3.
have
beyond
I
4
all
Tim. i. I2ff.
Tim. ii. 20.
Cf. 2
'Stanley, in
loco.
146
that
God should
feeble instruments
"
destroy/
own
matchless treasure to
entrust this
The
whom
he has been
vessel of clay
destroyed.
^ is
is
mind."
easily
The
broken and
own
The
time.*
earthenware
silver
in
story
of Rabbi
life
jars.
to
is
when
a rabbinical
contained her
He
mean appearance.
father's wines.
vessels
There
whereon
turned sour,
in silver
the
rabbi
ences in men.^
same
frailties
and
There
They do not
is
man's
use
littleness as
He
frequent.^
are, to
all
The
be sure,
is
differ-
all
have them.
that
is
It is
men
other
God
If
look in
demand an
men and
Ministers are
result dissatisfaction.
will
as
147
so long
no hope of
is
He would make
no music.
title
and
of teacher
There
is,
of
it is
true perspective.
and yet
Moses had
of God.
his
man chosen
to
make
man
own
God's
after
Israel
still
tree,
Adam,
2Isa.
pp.
46 ff.
'*
Woe
is
all
5.
Cf.
God
at
Horeb.
Isaiah,
me
Stalker,
sat
for I
am undone
vi.
and
small voice of
ness, said
became a
a nation
"The
p.
because
339,
Preacher and
His Models,"
148
I
am
man
of unclean
lips,
King Jehovah
the
and
for
Hosts."
of
Nevertheless, he
am
Here
"
from the
altar
send me."
and cleansed
And
Peter,
his
who,
denied
Lord with
his
oaths
and
tremendous
effect
needless to go on.
who expected
allow a man
demons
in
by Jesus
to be praised
the
name
down
wanted to
call
Samaritan
village,
of Jesus,
fire
who
for refusing to
company
not of their
who
to
cast
out
with James
kingdom
of Jesus
John became
who
who
2.
Son of God.
There
is
no doubt of the
completely.
Satan tempted
fact of the
human
limita-
whom
all
his
Every preacher
is
servant
is
not above
I49
made
special
throw temptations
across
may
plainly, preachers
love of
money, and
O man
of
God,
God can do
that
to love of praise.
so
is
of Paul
"
He
is
upon me."
rest
Luke
xxii. 31
this per-
The word
measurement.
There
human
There
is
no
limit to the
God had
in
God.
be God's purpose.^
all
to
But thou,
God's power.
was
women,
"
refused to
victims to silly
fall
these things."
flee
To speak
path.
their
power
work
of
of the
f.
Tim.
vi. II.
a terrible picture.
2 Cor.
iv. 7.
*2 Cor.
xii. 5,
ft.
I50
The
preaching
ways
is
not eloquent,
Men
attractive.
not learned,
is
is
not
al-
Moody. God is the only exMoody had really great powers, but gave
wholly to God and God filled him with His
the power of D. L.
planation.
himself
own power.
Paul had
already
God worked
Corinthians that
explained to the
your
faith
power of God."
Preachers do
The
differ,
God and
a gift
bickering,
but
makest thee to
is
increase
humble
of
differ ?
gratitude.
"
Spurgeon, Maclaren,
man,
Liddon,
Beecher,
Parker,
had
many
many
that
own
gift
"
God chose
He might
New-
Brooks, Broadus,
from God.
world, that
wise
his
who
each
selfish
For
didst
Moody,
from
gift
These
many mighty,
not
He might
strong
Cor. ii. 5.
Cor. iv. 7.
I shall never forget a masterly address delivered
to the students of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary many
years ago by Archibald G. Brown from this text.
*
3 I
God
He
might bring to
naught
This
is
Look
his
all
awkward
call
afterwards
That
multitude to repentance.
as
is
of
God
this,
and looked
for serv-
he moves the
who saw
at the
151
No
Not
an ugly
little
one
him, but
in
it
God."^
*'
in
One
no person with
any longer
men, we are
less
still
identified
told,
with the
do they go to church.
make no
in the
use of
* I
own.
Cor.
i.
But
26-29.
Gospel.
Clever
There
them
al-
God
above contempt
gifts
lost in
admiration of
Denney, in
loco.
P. 160.
152
them, and
is
it
well said
and
they see
men do
it
may
unthinking and
it
know
not always
its
cheap jibes
will
easy to set up a
That
needs to be
at the ministry
is
"
of intellect, not to
it.
But
to the point.
be forgotten to-morrow.
man
It
Manhood is the first essential in the minOur first minister was a man, but he was not
preacher.
"
ister.
a minister
not a
He had
Tears."
But he was
tellectual gifts.
of
God
It is
also a
man
"
Man
of transcendent in-
ness.
all
of
his
human
man
great-
thought bursts up
geyser and
falls
will
" pause
like a flaming
153
not
mouth
in the
lie
makes
Christ
but
The
student
appeal to the
its
God
gifts,
of
prowess of Paul.
the intellectual
It
The
men
does
ridicule
ministry of
of the noblest
is
life
if
But
by the claims
passes
it
it
supreme
He
Judean.
thought had
to-day
if
warm
religious
crystallized.
and hearts
the
Him.
to
He
heart.
The answer
more important
is
man
in the world.
it
to Christ.
another
mind and
is
where
seminaries
of Galilee
Christ
to
call,
serve.
At
best
it
offer,
is
only an
wholly un-
worthy of the
priceless jewel
place therein.
Who
of the
than to
Christ
tell
which Jesus
offers to
?
1
Stalker,
"The
p. 158.
154
The
of success
secret
simple.
It is real
is
very
vital
union
thing to
difficult
strains of
pull
life
us away.
our
in
eyes.
are
most
The
hfe.
is
ministry
the
in
just the
maintain in fullness of
upon
Hand
This
with Christ.
Guidi?ig
TJie
3.
God seems
us.
to sHp
away from
we
us and
left
people.
It
not
is
of strength.
It
is
it
a source
of
God
becomes a dynamo.
to a soldier, with
this Epistle
ened."
a corner.
comes
philosophy
his
rescue.
here
in
" It
The
like a
in
power
He had
man going
2 Cor.
'
Meyer, in
2 Cor.
iv.
cf.
loco.
iv. 8.
lost his
ii.
human weak-
viii.
not unto
in a circle,
Rom.
old negro's
mout be wuss."
despair."
common
'
straits."
an anacoluthon so
it,
yet
35.
6 Cf.
Gal.
iv.
20.
How
I55
We come
God
to
tremity
We
God's opportunity.
is
He was
Man's ex-
there.
are "pursued,
How
We
when
in
our
but not
flight,
left
behind
' smitten
Once more
The image may be
of
He
left for
When
go on proclaiming
life
Christ.
dead.
power
4.
This
is
in
life.
its
The hand
of
God
This
sustaining
But he
in his
the
is
Paul
is
more
or less success.
*Denney, in
*
loco.
Stanley, in loco.
come
Paul has
come
to rejoice in
up that which
is
lacking of
156
He
is
day
"
So then Paul
is
is
on
long.^
He
has no complaint to
*'
sake."
make
It is part
this score.
He
dying daily .^
is
For we
for Jesus'
when
the bul-
lets
knows
Paul
Besides,
heart.
him
of
his
work
dehverance,
strength,
in
sufferings
for Jesus
perils,
the
excitement
" the
that
are
die."
wearing
^
He,
out
his
like Jesus,
work
if
he had
said,
with us wherever
body.'
"
life
we
his
we go
is
of Christ
hand was
" It
a purpose in
is
We
Col.
i.
24.
is
bear
Thus
it is
the
it all.
reproduced in
also of Jesus
But there
'
that the
life
But
to the
as
in
9 1
Rom.
viii.
62 Cor.
"^
Stanley, in loco.
2 Cor.
iv.
36.
Ii.
iv. 10.
Christian
peated
of
re-
it.'
life
is
His people.
in
since Christ
had
when viewed
Life
also suffered.
became grand
There
divine energy
is
who were
life
in death itself
157
by
benefited
in you."
^
^
for the
good
of
Paul
his ministry.
life
of Christ
calls this
That
It is
is
may be
presented to men.^
Cal-
true of
Corinthians
iv. 8,
shadow of
Only thus
death.
is
who need
mere words.
rows
Paul's
intellect,
it
is
weak
1
'
*
'
Who
is
that
to be a
grief.
more than
man
of sor-
Who
is
weak and
am
2 Cor.
xi. 29.
not
Matt, X. 39.
F. W. Robertson, " Life and Letters," etc., p. 631.
^ Denney, in
2 Cor. iv. 12.
Energeital.
In loco. Ironice dictum.
Stalker, " The Preacher and His Models," p. 159.
*
was
Brilliant as
loco.
158
"
Our mouth
heart
is
is
enlarged.
believed,
The
also
spirit
of faith
God
is
God
of
is
useless for
"
we
also
his
own
case.
It
is
Dis-
Without
No
positive note
is
trust there
by the
struck
believe,
and therefore we
let
It is
to chatter
We also
not
speak
him
who
minister
to us."
no conviction.
is
speak."
preacher powerless.
which
we
plied the
trust of
and therefore
believe,
Corinthians, our
5.
**
him
when the
own heart.
also speak."
be
at least
of
silent
If
and
People care
When
"
The
in a firm
in faith
arising
that
is,
2 Cor.
'
vii. 2, II.
LXX
cxv.
i,
Thoughts on Religion."
22 Cor,
iv.
13.
2 Cor.
iv.
13.
ence between
itself to
but his
co7iviction,
Nothing gives
others.
be heard
will
So Paul
felt
"
For woe
much
so
man
Men
*'
life.
with
For we
unto me,
if I
in the service
be hunting
for
heart.
but
The
for
It is
which
we saw and
is
life
'
also.
differ-
this
I59
for
fills
mere
mind and
his
intellectualism
by the bug-
watery.^
and
thorough conviction
sincerity.
6.
"
intellectual
For
all
Thanksgiving
W.
F.
Acts
Stalker,
&
Ibid., pp.
p.
' I
cause the
629.
iv. 20.
252
may
p. 253.
Cor.
IX.
16
l3o
God
That
Christ Jesus.
be grateful
in them.
for
will
They
shortcomings.^
thanksgiving.
these
be a joyful scene.
will
earthen
is
and
God
posthese
all
merits
Suppose
we had no
Thought along
that line
them
as
they
are.
It
might
thanksgiving
*'
in
vessels.
worse.
before
It is
with
That grace
far
his
Paul will
be
him and
be thankful
sible to
of heaven
converts
in
will present
articulate,
We
it
may
bless others.
The
upon
others,
life
As he
reflects that
in
glory
in
field."
Yes, and
*^
who
*
'
<
Parasthei.
Denney, in
loco.
VI
INVISI
" While
we
not seen."
VI
TE
'V "W"
%/%/
not," Paul
faint
He
one.
from verse
no ground
sees
repeats
for despair.
life
Paul
and
is
not
and
toil
his face.
He was
He
normal mood.
wood
He
robin.
been singing
like the
He
looked death
all
that
What
is
He
has
not dismayed.
is
life.
it
shortcomings.
but he
in the face,
eternal verities of
look and
own
He
He
means.
ventures to interpret
of the preacher's
realities
life,
heart.
in the minis-
ter's life ?
I
2 Cor.
iv. 1 6.
163
is
Man
day."
There
is
no
l64
and death.
One
is
has learned
how
benediction to
grow
to
Paul
the world
heart,
old gracefully
about him.
all
all
young
and be a
constantly
is
'
willing to
There
ister
follow
him through
no " dead-line
is
becomes the
richer he
is
and
spiritual
The
knowledge
at eighty years of
at fifty ,^
A man's
older a min-
in spiritual
and water."
fire
Alexander Maclaren
and power.
fill
him.
with
fight
who
the
who
It is a
min-
for
any use
in the world.
It
is
is
better to wear
no special
" Paul
could
himself,
the
upon him.
call
But
effect
which
He saw
it
apostolic
"The
his
He
work had
He
was
Stalker,
Some churches
INVISIBLE CONSOLATION
THE
man
The
strength.
their
crumbUng."
many
is
bound
become
enemies had
his
The end
ways.
visible
Decay ^ has
outward man."
in " the
man
"
mark^
their
left
man
in
Paul has
fleshly nature.
physical abode
the
visibly
he
was
vessel
earthen
upon Paul by
in
many
an age when
at
165
The
The
Pen-La.
Paul
" sustained
is
Adoniram Judson
ward man
real
and
glorious hope."
by a
renewed day by
is
is
at
day.
"
Oung-
glorious.
The m-
^
It is
marble wastes, the more the statue grows."
man decays.
true of all men that the outward
"
Time
tires
pactest wall."
there
This
1
*
'
^^
But
it
is
man."
a daily refreshment of " the inner
It is a
expression he uses twice elsewhere."
is
Stanley, in loco.
Gal. vi. 17.
Denney, in loco.
Diaphtheiretai.
The condition here assumes the reality of the decay.
Bernard, in loco, e 2 Cor. iv. lb.
Col. iii. 9.
''
Cf Eph. iv. 22
mjoco.
Line attributed to Michael Angelo. Cf. Stanley,
" ^Ro"^- v". 2 Eph. lu.
o Denney, in loco.
16.
I66
He
nature.
new man
man
and moral
in contrast
'
with
new life in
One who is in Christ is a
new creature (creation).^ One puts off the old man
and puts on the new man like a new garment.^ He
does not here mean the new birth by " renewed " as
" the
old
a description of the
Ephesians
in
iv.
23/ nor
is
God by
of the image of
in Colossians
iii.
power
He
as
is
Each
Here Paul
10.
morning
is
apostoHc service."*
for
renewed
brings
He
is
is
never-failing store of
energy which
spiritual
"
When
am
communicated
is
am
weak, then
to
strong "
With Paul
it is
him.
with a
the triumph
He
decay.
is
The
God
contact with
at disease, decay,
Cf, Col.
Eph.
Cf.
2 Cor.
iv.
iii.
24
Rom.
Col.
xii. 2.
xii. 10.
who
"
10.
can laugh
iii.
thus lives in
He
never old.
and death.
10.
;
is
minister
cf, 2 Cor.
iii.
17.
< Cf.
^
Eph.
iii.
16.
THE
INVISIBLE CONSOLATION
end
as
eneth me."
can do
This
all
167
things in
Yea,
in the face.
Him
that strength-
who
is
muscle and
fibre for
2.
"
For our
worketh
all
notion of controversy
way
his
eternal
with the
on the
to a height
On
far
moment,
and wings
mountain
for the
is
weight of glory." 3
Judaizers
which
light affliction,
for us
this glory-
He
his.
is
is
He
is
interpreting his
in vision
and probably
and ministry
life
hght
in the
other.
He
Every word
The
affliction^
does not so
is
is
much minimize
It
*2Tim.
iv. 17.
<
Denney, in
'
Cf.
Rom.
loco.
viii.
matters
17.
the affliction as
mag-
and
stress
little,
is
the
toil
in sight.
^Dgnney, in
glory.^
loco.
* Cf.
Standpoint
2 Cor. iv. 17.
Cf. Rev. v. 5 f.
Rom.
viii.
18.
1 68
much
determines
for us
our troubles
if
life's
values.
The words
He
word
view of
It is really "
in the other.
The
like a
The
The word
for
weight "
*'
is
Paul
The
drowns
notion
probably
is
the
It will
moment
"
There
is
in
Aionion.
opposition
is
confined to
perpetual with
is
no way
to challenge
Burden.
^
Hebrew word (Gen.
means both to be heavy and to be glorious.
Here only in the New Testament.
'
" eternal."
who
Once more,
in
it all is.
al-
afflic-
den was
"
the light-
trifles
tion in one
We
turned
is
What
very astonishing.
seem then
will
we have
eyes
is
here looking at
is
If the telescope
Paul
all.
like a substantive.
xviii.
20; Job
vi.
Meyer, Bernard.
3)
INVISIBLE CONSOLATION
THE
there
no glory
is
But even
all
Thus one
That
beyond,
in
that
lies in
sees that
the future,
He
is
all
make money,
to get
back on
it.
come
in the
mean
Far from
were
if it
one holds to
if
a belief in immortality.
169
the allurements of
way
to
when he
life
He
Damascus.
He
surrenis
not
He
ministry
if
pay enough
that were
Men
all.
for the
But no
work
of the
who are
character and worth as men for
the world with ministers who do
comparable
in
real welfare of
dent gets
all
his
ceives most of
next world.
pay
in
minister
is
The
minister re-
man and
entitled to a decent
1
Cf.
Cor.
ix.
the
not
'*
The
money.
his in glory,
But
not
is all
in the
the differ-
the spiritual
man.
competency and
lyo
man who
the bread of
He
did
it
of decay
**
The law
And
this
"
trouble.
abideth alone
He
but
his life in
shall also
Me, him
has glory as
will the
its fruit
fall
loseth
let
him
My
is
it
Paul's philosus.
and
die,
much
beareth
;
is
this
am, there
serve
This
out"^
is
afflic-
if it die, it
life
If
for-
Hfe out
is
the soother of
is
works
It
it
of our humanity
this
ophy of
he had undergone.
gotten him.
But no amount of
life.
fruit.
unto
Me
follow
servant be
Father honour."
and where
if
eternal.
life
;
any man
Affliction
spirit of
But go and
He
tell
him
tell
him
and there
is
the pe-
its
tender-
that
ness,
humanity,
zxvA personality y ^
W.
Robertson,
F.
'
Katergazetai.
F.
W.
Life
and Letters,"
to change
p. 633.
3
John
xii.
24-26.
his figure.
exceedingly."
He
Hterally piles
in store for
is
"
Ossa on Pelion
in
an
17I
He
There
his conception.
rest.^
much
3.
"
faith
power.^
at the things
life
Paul
is
watchman peering
ahead.
It is
We
steadily
and slowly
or a
momentary rhapsody
of
means.
the
is
Cf. Phil.
20.
^
6
iii.
14.
'
Denney, in
loco.
It is
under consideration.
4 Cf.
It is
i Cor. ii. 9
2 Cor. iv. 18.
cf.
f.
Welt-anschauung.
172
No
move
dergo the
which he
to
sacrifices
is
Moses,
God, than to
accounting
Egypt
By
of reward.
for
faith
who
is
invisible."
for
Paul.
as seeing
Him
man
in the
Jewish Dis-
just because,
to
him
at the
Burn-
So he stood
in
the
God
in their
And
Promise.
what may, he
is
sacrifice of
you
for
that
is
is
true.
xi.
and
faith, I joy,
It is
and
am
offered
rejoice with
in Paul's
whole, not
25-27.
if I
in its
Heb.
your
I will
your souls."
what
life
'
" Yea,
content.
upon the
all."
Come
in a
2
mind, though
able to look at
fragment or section.
Phil,
ii,
17.
^2 Cor.
It is
xii. 15.
to a just view of
strife
But there
life.
to help peo-
is
Much
men back
to call
that
is
case, in
material sense.^
The
duty
visible, principle
is
seen
invisible,
is
invisible,
is
any
in-
is
The
invisible.
is
un-
greatest
They
soul
invisible, love
73
just,
whatsoever
if
and
if
It
just because
is
good report
it is
on these
things."
man
is
the ministry.
There
The
man who
seer
is
the
prophetic vision
to
grip
is
is
conflict of the
The
seen.
ministers wish
if
are temporary.*
is
triumphant.
F.
Phil. iv. 8.
Out
The
of the
W.
what he has
essential to-day
life
of vision in
to
little
tells
men
>
Cf.
Rom.
i.
20.
p.
" In the
633.
* Cf.
Heb.
xi. 25.
174
We
beginning God."
The
with God.
come back
universe which
is
As
We start
to that.
we
which we do
the eye
sees
is
Paul
open.*
He
is
sense.
He
is
if
He
is
idealist.
eye
a practical
He
His eye
terms.
deeper
goes
on God and
is
self-styled
common
it
much
heavenly vision.
but
we should
We
need our
have
It is all
practical,
sense,
Christ.
of our faith."
natural, insistence
than philosophical
feet
very
on the
men need
on the
earth,
We are
not
Eden.
spiritual
impulse, else
pass away.
When
it
Rom.
i.
20.
other
all
Heb.
men clamour
may be
xii. 2.
allowed to
so
much
call
Denney, in
men
loco.
THE
INVISIBLE CONSOLATION
and now
in
view of
and
175
to a
life
here
eternity.
*'
tabernacle
in the
God, a house not made with hands, eternal
face to face
heavens."^ These words bring Paul
struggles.
with death as the outcome of his
overtakes him.
Jesus may come before death
is
He
really groans
True,
That
with a pas-
sionate longing
This
is
to be clothed
of
the probable meaning of this mixture
which was natural to Paul since the tent
metaphors
cloth used
by him
As
garments.^
could express
body
at the
in
making
tents
for
all
Second Coming
will
The new
He
is
not anxious
^
Herodotus
new.^
to drop the old, but to have the
after death, appeared
tells of a Corinthian queen who,
burn dresses for
to her husband and asked him to
1
2 Cor. V.
'2 Cor.
I.
'
v. 2, 4.
4Cf.Johnxxi.7.
6
Stanley, in loco.
Ependusasthai.
10 Herodotus, V. 92.
Cf 2 Cor.
ix. 14.
,S^-J^^I^'
/.
' Bernard, xn loco.
2 Lor.
v. 4.
176
bodied
*'
spirit.
may have
remarkably blended
what
apostle doubts as to
of."
He
'
may come
first,
not certain
is
He
first.
apostle
the
of;
certain
men now
all
are certain
certain that,
is
more
The
these words.
in
knows
certitude, are
if
death comes
body
to a heavenly
title
far
With measured
his spirit
be his in
which
will
heaven.
The wanderings
Paul.
on
in tents
their
way
to the Promised
The
tent
is
struck^ at the
is
The
eternal.
God
is
house
tent
is
of cloth.
not
on
is
in heaven.
The
At every
is
tent
is
also oc-
The
tent
stable
and
house from
as Paul
made
the tents
'
Torn down.
Cf. Gal.
ii.
18.
Oikia.
Cf. Phil.
ii.
10.
INVISIBLE CONSOLATION
THE
1 77
The note
know
Paul
him.2
worst and
that loves
we
that
There
is
have."
Let death do
body
understands that
the eternal
memory
in
of
Corin-
We
its
is
Spirit.
it
which
spirit
calls
is
is
heaven.
At Home With
5.
"
We
say,
He
is
He
feels in
content, that
1
^
6
New
'
home
wondrous
2
as are the
by the constant
He
is
won-
pres-
thinking of what
Him
and look
Clear conviction.
2 Cor. V. 8.
Ekdeineo.
at
home
be to be
to be at
will
and
feet of Jesus
it
Lord
the
sit at
the
face
which looked
Present tense.
at
Rom.
him on
viii.
37.
Bernard, in loco.
Greek word occurs only in this passage in the
5
The
Testament.
Endemeo.
^ Pros.
178
Then what
swallowed up of
He
life.*
mortal will be
is
now
what
is
God
His
own good
There
time.
is
He
John
in
foe.
It is
meanwhile, he
of
folding
is
his
He
to depart
ready
'*
for
will
many
not a
and be with
work.
welcome
He
Christ.
is
an inspiration
But,
has no notion
at the
The
end of a
Paul's
other-worldliness took
is
home and
It
upon
that.
waters.
1-3, that of
xiv.
good courage^
therefore with
the joy of
home.
God wrought
and wrong
2 Cor.
V. 4.
* Cf. Phil.
i.
23.
all
in this world.
Cf. 2 Cor.
i.
22.
s
2 Cor.
Cf. Phil.
i.
v. 6, 8.
24^26.
VII
**
Wherefore we make
home or absent,
unto Him."
at
it
to
be well pleasing
2 Cor.
V. g.
VII
I.
TTE
"m" "V"
\/\/
Him."
'
Come
life,
come
death, Paul's
Am-
is
a word in ill-repute.
umbo, both.
office,
It
The Roman
ways
at once.
It
go any lengths
a
is
good
Enghsh word
is.
nobler origin.
It
bad
The Greek
means
But there
be fond of honour.
to
One
is
ends.
tious
to
be
quiet.^
He
is
himself
ambitious to
men have
not been
With Paul
^
2 Cor. V.
Rom,
it is
9.
a matter of honour
^
Philo-th7ieomai.
XV. 20.
to please Christ.
3 i
i8z
Thess.
iv. ii.
Meyer, in
loco.
l82
Surely this
is
Since
Hfe, to
This
He
Epistles.^
is
for the
who
He
is
Lord."
his constant
He
aim
is
to please
me
the
is
He
taught him.
that judgeth
if
stands entranced
Christ.^
There
is
who is afraid of his shadow, who runs at a whisper, who lacks virility, who speaks peace when there
is no peace, who is satisfied with things as they are,
who watches for the praise of the groundlings, who
ter
trims his
sail
to every
to popular taste,
The
caters
sensational.
ing for
God
or man, only
let his
an unwillingness to do a
full
Here
"He
>
a true word
is
make but
>Rom.
Tit.
ii.
3 I
and
iv.
l8;
is.
a poor
Col.
iii.
lo;
9.
Cor.
iv. 4.
Stalker,
2 Cor. x.
62 Cor.
5.
p. 207.
x. I.
who would
if
who do
Christ.
The
is
So many com-
this
pHcations will
work, so
so
arise,
many
time
rapidly the
visits
made
highest.
The
of his toy.
who
The sermon
ought to have. The
slips
it
get on.
will
by.
comes
meet Christ
work.
Praise
is
"
Un-
child
The
interruptions to one's
God
There are
few preachers
to please
1 83
faithful servant
He
says
enter thou
2.
"
For we must
all
judgment-seat of Christ."
" all."
The
2 Cor. V. 10.
is
but here he
point to press
no wise exempt.
is
is
careful to include
l84
The judge
The
more common
But
this
claimed
Each one
firmation in sin.
receives
the con-
is
body.
in the
Jesus had
fact clearly.
a throne.*
is
is
to be the
judgment
**
self.^
him be made
word
We
filthy still."
2 Corinthians
in
"
'
v.
describes
ers
who
down upon
he that
is filthy, let
lo
And
like
The
us
Paul
^^
will
themselves be saved so as by
fire,
but
be burned up
There
like
The
'
Matt. XXV. 31
Cf. F.
Gal.
'
Rev.
thing."
W.
ft".
ordeal of
Rev. xx,
fire is
before the
ii.
xxvi. 64.
is
sort
work of
Rom.
xiv. 10.
'
Cf.
Gets back in
full.
p. 639.
vi. 7.
xxii. 11,
<
Denney, in
^YiQTo. phancros.
In
this
last
of any-
loco.
^
Etnprosthen,
>o I
Cor.
iii.
12-15.
185
Indeed, so solemn
is
his
He
rejected."
" lest
by any means,
myself should be
own
and
unto us
pungently said
to others
be sons of perdition.
life
No man
he doth not
if
sermon well
preaches his
first
preach
as with all
to his
it
men
is
There
is
truth in
deadliest Pharisaism
is
not hypocrisy
tremendous responsibility
man from
is
The
is
duty
is
Luke
At any
him
To
rate
we must
all
^ i
Cf.
4
6
* Cf.
Rom.
xviii. 5.
xiv. 10.
to
shirk
loss of self-respect
science.
the
result of
call of
which
it is
not to dissuade a
the
own
John Owen
the reality."
The
be the case."
this
With preachers
heart."
of
if
:
infi-
We may be apostles,
prize.
Woe
soul.
dels, freethinkers,
"
body
after I
*'
'
:
;
1 86
God
judgment-seat of
there
but
no creature that
is
Him
before
us
whom we
with
all
On
His work.
in
who
Epicurus wrote to
is
to the other."
"And
The King
our Theatre.
how we comport
upon
is
ourselves
He
us.
upon the
is
stage,
commendation
is
Persuading
men."
all.
concerning Jesus.
One
observing
and before
part.
His
Men
we
He
is
Some
With
mind he seeks
generation.
Heb,
2 Cor. V. II.
Acts xxviii. 23
iv.
believed,
At
Christ in
his
the
in the
lieved.^
the
is
enough."
3.
We persuade
Rome
our chief
is
Presence of Jesus
"
The goal
'
are a great
this
have to do."
to please Jesus
is
we
And
all
eyes of
for
is
"
in the
He
is
the judgment-seat of
to be faithful to the
sure that
God
'"The Face
13.
*Conative present.
f.
moment is
men
of
understands
of Jesus," p. 46.
^
Acts
xvii. 32.
made him
terror of the
of the Corin-
faithfulness of his
and
knowledge of the
Paul's
ministry.
187
He
Lord
was no
who
"We
zest unimpaired.^
must
re-
there
an extract from
is
its
In the "
which
his diary
is
a revela-
work of the
"
ministry.
Word;
for
growth
in grace, for
undergo.
me
Thought
them
most
easily beset
deliverance.
ters,
personal
They
when any
are
im-
tivity,
mankind lying
taste
at the
and an appetite
2Cor.
God and
bottom of
for
human
it
and above
applause.
Vol.
W.
I, p.
288.
con-
V. II.
F.
all,
My
ac-
the service of
1 74.
88
me on
science smote
I
my
ciple of
appearances there.
annexed to
faithful ministers,
and
diligence,
pray that
discharge of
ability in the
Prayed
terial office.
and prayed
for
my
zeal,
minis-
of them.
descriptions
all
relations.
Read
It is
things to
all
The aim
men
if
by
all
of one's ministry
is
able to be
is
souls.
the conversion of
The
evangelistic
There
sermon
is
the
chmax
to the throne of
any other
within
God
of public worship.
a larger
act of worship.
to bless
all
number
It calls
It
"
men
and
is
The
summons
of faculties than
upon everything
The sermon
But one
spirit in
conversion of sinners.
ter
1 I
is
how
Cor.
ix.
to
The problem
of every minis-
22.
"The
Hfe effect-
p. 277.
ive in winning
the same in
its
new
It
of every
not enough to
is
know
knowledge
and
in old sins
sores."
men who
way
It
and continues
will
help
little
to lose one's
Beside Ourselves
Some
it
such case.
4.
God."
babe
first
to persuade.*
where the
his destiny
in
a sympathetic
of the
temper
other books.
**
men
Christ.
"
89
to Christ.
difficulties
unto
it is
members
of
own
Himself.^
His
ascetic
and abstemious
ber because
He
The
*
6
'
in his
2 Cor. V. 13.
Matt. xi. 18,
Matt. xi. 19.
Pharisees ex-
by the
devil.^
Mark
21.
3.
Cf. Robertson,
"John
iii.
I90
He
Paul probably
is
is
a Samaritan
thinking of his
enemies in Corinth
which Paul
him
as
he
ironically that
is
He
admits
him
to do.^
He may
he was a
fool.
The very
enemies as proof as
his
lack of balance.
his
loud voice
is
shown by the
is
who
address on Festus
effect of his
exclaims in a
It is
He
learning
" off."
devil with
"
power.
to those
It is
which to
The
who
clip the
disciple
wings of a preacher's
them
to be in an
He had
God-filled man
him.
in
1
John
God.
48.
2 Cor. xii. 1-7.
Dt-nney, in loco.
a real enthusiasm,^
viii.
2 Cor.
xi.
God
word
Cf. our
1-17.
ecstasy."
'
derangement
Life seems
of the world.
for
may
fact
So
Paul was
in the cause of
to death.
and that
was
It
I9I
God than
far as
God,"
" to
God.
much
too
for
Better far
icy re-
Dr. A. C.
null."
Dixon says
that a graveyard
place on earth.
much
man and
and
follies
sins of
a worldling
minded.2
ing crafty
modern
He
I
He
that he
money
for his
dis-
in all the
damned
as
criti-
is
is
saints,
after their
If a
Paul.
is,
family,
nary by some.
he
what they
is
they charged.
money
for the
minister saves
poor
little
society.
Some thought
also.
willing to be
is
if
he does.
if
Paul
The preacher
beside himself.
counted as peculiar
He
considered
cism
is
say.
It is
They
really be-
men
ridicule
'2 Cor.
v. 13.
2 Cor.
v. 12.
192
just to see
if
The prophet
They
self.
is
burn Savonarola
will
coming generations
monument.
build his
will
Florence and
in
In
The
and Latimer.
ashes of
EngPaul
dilemma.
If
he was prudent,
if
it
it
was
was
a preacher to be
ideas.
or
will
leading article."
it
Paul has
It is
easy for
full
The sermon
for God.'
be
was only
If the
only a lecture
Newman
to hear
from begin-
critical
man
" It
is
lips
which
has to give.
is
Catch that
upon
^
'
one's
life
the best
To
feel
p. 321.
Ibid.
great moments,
its
come
and
often
life
is
gold."
fine
'
Spirit
is
fire.
5.
may
him
him
think
He
to Paul.
as
crafty or crazy.
It is
for us
his
We
Christ,
That
in brief
Jesus.
is
He
There
all.^
He
to prove His
relation to
a small matter
is
power
to save
saved by Christ no
We
no
sin.
They
from
193
own
The
love of that
to the end.
It is
used
Peter's
'
6
'
when
Jefferson,
194
The
multitudes press
Jesus
cation.
the pressure
felt
in
His
spirit
till
His
When
Stephen told
hand of God,
held^
their
Silas
came
Sanhedrin
the
word
Paul later
of preaching.
ears.
Corinth from
to
continuously to the
himself in a strait^
felt
amples of
fast.
"
this
The
word.
by the love
ical
imperative of 4uty.
that
is
this
It
he
In a sense,
is
held fast
is
It
is
herself
is
if
The
go."
The mother
power.
me
let
since, as in a vice,
of Christ.^
irresistible,
Testament ex-
its
New
Christ.
It is
impulse.^
The
constraint
is
not re-
the
The
Luke
Acts
'
F.
Sun.
viii.
45.
xviii, 5.
W.
Robertson,
Luke
Phil.
Life
xii.
i.
50.
23,
and Letters,"
p.
9
love of Christ
Acts
Denney, in
vii.
57.
loco.
644.
l^ygei nos^' Vulgate.
presses
hard, harasses
me
have no peace.^
beyond
desire to get
me
He
no
195
lures
Christ.
him on
Jesus
is
has
ever with
With
to higher heights.
Be not
"
his side
peace
for I
thee to
harm
He
all.'*
afraid,
am
thee."
To
all
beyond
that stage,
he
new motive
look.
The gold
him.
He
is
in
life,
and
in
new angle
new
has gone
The new
glad to say.
is
He
has a
on
shall set
man
for Paul.
of vision.
passion, a
new
He
He
out-
It
life.
is
Christ.
6.
" Wherefore
The
New
The reason
flesh."
man ^
in Christ Jesus.
Ewald.
View of Man
is
"
The
2 Cor.
v. 16.
after the
is
anew
Chrysostom.
Col.
'
2 Cor.
iii.
11.
v. 17.
196
become new."
are
The
come
has
the
new
is
neither
In
place
its
of whatever race.
In
cision nor
bond nor
man
love for
ancient
free.^
The middle
debtor
It
the
is
The
Jews
world.
that this
and
Samaritans
hated
each
scorned
whom
those
and
" a
The love
man's a man for
slave.
cient world.
that
of
a'
that,"
of
the
"
Christ.
between master
as
the
Paul
spirit.
real
first
made
this
at
2 Cor. V. 17.
Rom.
i.
14.
Col.
iii.
II.
democracy,
discovery in
Bethlehem
conquered.
dividual
they
social gulf
man
other.
The proud
Romans
is
in the ancient
is
And
very
not,
the spir-
far
Eph.
Eph.
indeed
ii.
14
iii.
8.
f.
slave, clasp
matron and
Even the
of India.
197
down
Christian world
very
far
from
man
Paul has
himself.
to look
looked
upon the world, the eyes of Jesus which had
in pity
upon him.
Jesus has
men.
He
made
has a
a
new
new world
for Paul.
The y
to heroic
passion for souls that spurs the missionary
the love
in
to uplift the race is grounded
endeavour
of Christ.
The worth
of
man
is
recognized in
its
The world is
probmodern
There are always
in a state of flux.
mean
lems for the modern man, but this does not
view of man.
that Christians must drop the gospel
As
modern
come up
is
and apply
it
in
most
man
to Christ's view of
needs to do
to
Christianity
problems of to-day
on our knowledge of man and the worldrevoluorder, but evolution has not wrought such a
new
W.
Cf.
light
"
Ihe
198
man
as has Christianity.*
own mind
contrast
it is
As
just the
He
does not
mean
that,
He grew
man, but
in appreciation of
made
turn
in
by
Hfe
his
was
it
new
the
new
human
"
race.
philosophy,
grow up from
it
The
Had he
in the history
society,
old Jewish
new epoch
The
Jesus.
siveness vanished.
all
that a
new
literature,
knew
what
is
here said."
He had
flesh,
but he knows
Him in
time, this
God,
this
new
new
by
Jesus.
It
man
love for
is
the greatest of
as the offspring of
View
of
God and
8
viii.
13.
the
World
as Center-
B. Jowett, in loco.
Stanley, in loco.
this "
makes
all
an offering
men meet on
creatures.
in
in
new
world "^
a
in a
man
The
touch-stone that
is
for men.'
is
common
199
be given
to
Christ.
level
slides of life
women
after
Positively
is
the transformation in
Indeed,
good
that
is left
in
man
it
There
is
it is
inex-
and Hnk
the
on to that and transform the heart and life by
Holy Spirit. The old prophets dimly saw the glory
in the
Messiah of
whom
they spoke.^
painter
the
stood before a masterpiece of a genius and felt
" And I too am a
uplift of spirit as he humbly said
:
The power
painter."
of Christ
is
as great to-day as
spirit
upon him.
by
we look
we
up with the
ineffable
hope that
2 Denney, z /^r^.
iPhilii. 17.
also Begbie's " Twice-Born Men."
this book is called " Broken Earthenware."
4 Cf.
M Peter
i.
II.
the spell of
at Jesus
this
what
is
En
The
Christo.
^
British edition of
.
John 1.42.
200
we ought
to be like,
We
what we
be
will try to
like.*
Intellectual
7.
"
.
And
ciliation." ^
is
lifts it
calling.
Ministers are
we have
to propitiate
God.
It
God's
part
true
is
that
towards
angry with
sin.
He
has
that
peace.
in
God
God
punishes
something
there was
sin.
estrangement on
is
sin.
represented as
God
against Himself.^
as
well
as
"
something
is
bound
There
in
to
in
side
is
comparison with
is
man
be
so init
that
It is
W.
F.
2 Cor. V. 18
* F.
work
we
W.
to
f.
God
to
man.
20I
in the seriousness of
lem
a
in a
way by which
God's
He
justify the
and to
to remain just
has found
-phe
sinner.2
'
satisfactory to Himself.
way
prevails
love.^
This
is
life
God's overture to
and
man
them
the sub-
is
The
death of Christ.
for
their trespasses."
We
to reconcile
God
ator
Christ
effort.
It
is
is
precisely at this
in.
the Medi-[
He must
who other-
know
of
Christ or who,
if
work worthy
Son of God
of
Himself who Himself was the greatest Preacher
own
Jesus best interpreted to men His
Gospel.
the
1
Denney, in
6 Cf.
8
loco.
2 Cor. V. 19.
Rom.
26.
iii.
Conalive participle.
'
^T^^T\9.
10%^*
c
Tim. ^ 5.
* i
11.
'^'
202
The Holy
who
of Christ to men.
He
shall take of
No
Spirit
shall glorify
God without
whom God is anxious
to
Me
it
He
for
unto you."
men
There
is
no earthly task so
itself if it
in order to
for
winning
naught
sermon
men back
to
God.
This
All else
the
is
is
work
He
The
pulpit
life
is
God
subsidiary to this.
"
A
A
spirit.
He lays down
of
cannot save.
with God.
delicate
gifts,
God's coworkers in
is
win men
if
We are
is
go
Spirit
minister
in their hearts
Holy
The
to bestow.^
The
work
ciler
life
promised as
is
for the
life
is
of the world."
Paul
is
a preacher of
John
Jefferson,
xvi.
3 ,
287.
Cor.
2 Cor.
iii.
9.
v. 20.
8.
"
as
for
being an ambassador
common among
is
32 Jesus
yet
is
It
Luke
xiv.
of peace."
Paul
fully
is
he
commission which
great
In
**
Christ.
conbears
In a word Paul, as
He
is
is
off,
conditions
The word
way
scious of the
us."
tells
great
asketh
all
203
as
the ambassador
Christ with
rebellious Corinthians
of Christ."
love that
It is
He
We
utter sinfulness of
ministry
is
men to
The
human
makes
nature
sins.
revealed in the
is
this necessary.
An
earnest
Paul
gave
perversity that
sin.
"
He
receive
of
so loved that
He
them.
for
feels his
own need
reality
He asks
utterance may be
that prayer be
made
given unto
for
him
>
2 Cor.
V. 20.
a Cor.
V. 20.
" that
Meyer.
Cf. also
Luke
6
me
xix. 14.
Deometha.
204
my
opening
in
mouth,
to
make known
sador in chains
to speak."
He
No
The
chain.
The
ought
in
Rome wore
to feel towards
no wonder that
It is
felt
an ambas-
ambassador though
ambassador
Paul
am
boldly, as
ring with
is
Christ's
still
is
wearing a chain.^
that
may speak
that I
with boldness
man's personality
is
At any moment
element.
message inevitably
it is
Dr.
Hoyt
considers
preaching
that
human
The
is
is
Spurgeon
called them.
"
Poor
triumphs bring to
Excess of joy
as
it;
come
there must
a reaction.
for
by
Eph.
Phillips Brooks.
vi.
19
f.
Pulpit Discourse."
by a
we should be
in soul- winning,
our
off
by popularity, exalted
by success
Whirled
205
it
as the chaff
and
wrecked, naked
forlorn,
Ages."
In
'
this respect, as
in
work of
of the
offer to
men.
He
Christ.
"
has a
full
This
God's purpose
that
is
him
we
He made
solidity
ourselves
and
positiveness.
may become
Thus there
come
our Hves.
deemed humanity
in Christ.
He
is
of Christ.
Christ.
1
'
become a
sanctified
in
shall
re-
humanity
Christ's
port to Christ.
seat
will
to
is
on
sin
salvation to
Ambassador.
He
He
is
He
must make
to appear at the
longs
to
his re-
judgment-
be well pleasing to
206
of men.
preacher
deadly
who
Moreover,
the
God
world
earnest.
This
does
not
mean
mendous sense of
the worth of men.
were worth
bring
to
Christ's
his
high calling
They
dying
them.
the
loves
who
is
in
that
the
The
tre-
rests largely
for
peace
in the
on
They
VIII
IN
By
vi.
IS
i-io)
port
2 Cor.
vi. 8.
VIII
IN
AND
is
Him
workers."
fellow
God's
the coworker.
is
" for
God
That
is
man who
redemption.
is
Paul
we
are
is
the
his glory
The
in the ministry.
God
IS
stars
partner with
Modern
science has
His heart
of Himself in nature.
Christ Jesus.
is
manifested in
processes
into the secrets of nature to learn her
God must
God
in Christ as unfolded in
His
Word and
He must know
and
in
His
2 Cor.
* I
vi. I.
loco.
200
Cor.
iii.
9-
2IO
IN
His energies,
He
what
for
ambassador, but he
worker
also
is
only begun
the
first
with
But the
when he has
work
working
is first
minister's
an
work
Paul
is
If
God
speaking of him-
really
in
the
There
is
is
God
It is
an
who
is
whom
self as
Paul
'
a builder, a teacher, a
The preacher
must
no blessing prom-
The higher
classes
withhold their
too good for
is
tlemanly,
or
it,
The
less resolutely
indolent
who
man who
and
is
is
sensibilities
Maclaren,
Denney, in
'
The
weak.
too
too
preacher, therefore,
mon
no
spirit of
how
man
An
^
ex-
Paul
of the finest
loco.
Phelps, "
in
Men and
Books,"
p. 69.
TAKING LIFE AS
He
classes.
alive to
is
and
all
Christianity
in
grapple
its
knows how
man
to be a
the
vi^ith
vagaries
211
IT IS
theological
But Paul
time.*
work of
of affairs in the
He
of spiritual power.
is
He
at Jerusalem.^
when he wins
truth in his
that
in
Paul
There
" a
workman
possible for a
a detaint
He is
anxious
word of
man
no
is
and he compromises no
championship of freedom.
Timothy may be
Thus he
saints
of obscurantism
poor
truth."
It is entirely
the mere details of church finance and church business and thus lose the richer results of his life-work.
faith
trained an Alex-
who
the
kingdom
of
God than
and with
* Cf.
2 Tim.
ii.
15.
Gal.
ii.
We
word.
need a
of the truth."
spiritual vision of
There
The measure
needs
name
when
work
of a minister's
is
The
"
oiling.
not
is
often
as well as
in the press.
prominent
made by
is
work
many
for
IN
212
noise
is
its
soul,
is
sacrificed to
its
work.
You have bustle all the week and baldness on SunYou have energy everywhere except in the
day.
spirit."^
There
men count
cessful
success.
brilliantly
failure unless
the
spirit of
"
we
Our work
'
on
"
He
be a
we have only
Jesus Christ."
pious platitude,
to us a highly suc-
word
to
it.
call
sounds like a
our
own
lives
4" Ad Clerum,"
no
What seems
work may be
is
pp. 225-235.
TAKING LIFE AS
istry
is
213
IT IS
man who
There
failure elsewhere.
been a
no magic
is
has
spell
Ms
work
"
with
God
all
their
good motto
We
God
for
one who
is
a coworker
Appeal
2.
"
souls.
in vain."
He
is
The
entreaties of
If
God
it is
"
is
entreaty,
It
translate.
exhortation,
and consolation.
It
us."
is
It
is
Pan! has
He
the
is
for Christ.^
He
is
has
afraid
the work
But he cannot
in Corinth
come
to
He
God
naught.
8
B
They have
'
2 Cor. vi.
I.
Parakaloumen.
>
2 Cor.
xi. 3.
IN
214
of no
who
He
it
and void.
null
He
He
self.2
limited.
in
is
It is
He heark-
As
able ^ time.
in the
is it
crisis in
to-day.
was in
it
As
Corinth.
Crisis
is
it
Isaiah's
it
time
was
so
must be
"
so.
now
it is
in Paul's
day so
lips
of
God
should steel
because
it
is
voice.
my
The crown
of a man's
The
The sound
drown the
men come
To emptiness.
<
Isa. xlix. 8.
still
and
small voice
us to
this
woos
is
' i
displeasing,
Immersed
com-
in the cares of
to resent as an impertinence
^C{. 2 Cor.
vi. I.
loco.
TAKING LIFE AS
effort of
home
" The
to press
the hfe.
ness
is
life
to
21
fruit of
When
'
a redeemed
the minister's
he has ample
life
But,
end
is
it
only
failure,
he
may
if
all
of
all
will
believe in
the
in
bear
knows the
or that.
The
force
feeble appeal
any
lamity.
his
is
have
God
hope on
is
great
is
him
useless.
is
feeble and
" In
unsatis-
a positive ca-
is
great question,
alone
man
first
faith
to disappointment."
The
tell
undiscovered
its
builds his
position, a vacillating
factory.
The
satis-
true.
is
average man.
in the
have the
He must
nature.
capacity of the
if
He cannot
" He must
waters.
fruit, this
human
at least
so be that
which
God upon
given to God."
IT IS
is
the leader of
to vacillate, in
any
army
to a
At any
W.
F.
Jefferson,
Blaikie, "
The Work
etc., p.
p. 171.
66l.
in
2l6
IN
if it fall
modern
number
of
who do
men
upon deaf
in our cities
life
ears.
is
who never go
to church,
message of Christianity.
There
is,
surely, a differ-
of Jesus
disciples
churches.
But
it
is
still
work
of the king-
of God.
3.
**
Giving
No
Occasion of Stumbling
some
to think that
will actually
Paul seems
be glad of an excuse
They
be glad
if
for
Real
dom
One
the large
an occasion.
enemies
in
knew
in their lives.^
They
them such
actually said
His
Denney, in
Men and
loco.
p. 73.
less,
<
Paul will
2 Cor.
2 Cor.
vi. 3.
xi.
9 fF.
TAKING LIFE AS
He
one
men
will find
real
anyhow
for
ready to
must see
to
it
in his
minister
true
that
life, if
perfect
is
cavil.
men throwing
of
No
it.
It is
and, do
enough
far be-
accepting
for not
ground of complaint
be possible to avoid
it
not
is
in the fight.
falls
excuses
they have no
occasion
who
the pack
in
21
The
Christ.
that
for
IT IS
felt
stumbling-blocks in the
Him
"
Woe
way
of
it
must needs
man
ter for
him
his neck,
one
is
if
and he were
common
This peril
it
The
will
recall
2 Cor.
Mark
xi. 12.
ix.
42.
sorrowful
2
list
Strike against.
of
those
*
who,
Matt,
Paul
like
xviii. 7.
2l8
IN
upon the
It is
faith.*
careers of those
who once
stood forth as
jected
make a
the press
if
It
feature in the
whose hves so
of those ministers
news columns
It
hang
But better
shame.
makes every
head
his
the
all
sober
may be
Cross
who
work of
the world.
He
keep
to
Christ.
Paul
is
that,
if
possible,
no
con-
determined
is
ground of blame
desire
all
real
in
far
faithful
After
in dark-
His
men.
The tongues
Tim.
i.
19
f.
life
before
God and
2 Cor.
He
vi. 3.
was particularly
'
Momos.
TAKING LIFE AS
money
merely because he
is
The
know
that
all
all
confident that
may
man
usefulness.
minister
again.
God
under-
will
The
minister of Christ
soil his
reputation.
his
The
is
trouble
on
integrity.
God knows.
has no right to
God,
acumen and
of business
matters and to
in the sight of
219
IT IS
depends largely
his
useful
refuta-
who
It is
it
it
must build
is
up again.
it
to build.
Christ's
and the
of Des-
pond.
isters for
to
glory of
God
is
no special
in
call for us
2 Cor.
viii.
20 f.
We are
220
IN
may
One
abound.
life is
faults that
So thus
of Christ.
he saw in us as
behooves us
it
all,
as
PauP
Prof. G.
istry in
News
The Yale
letter
in
He
strictures
young
on the min-
ministers for
is
advo-
some years
any other
is
He
over.
" It
due to
is
this
more than
Episcopal churches
is
so largely
filled
with
men
of
is
it
in these
and
insincerity
makes the
laymen."
and
personal
unmanliness) which
clerical
W.
Dr.
this
indictment in The
1.
far
Eph.
V. 15.
must record
as
my own
my
ex-
in every calling,
TAKING LIFE AS
but
else.
221
IT IS
than anywhere
in the ministry
ministers
men
petulant
ill-mannered,
insincere,
is
number.
Prof.
The laymen
experience.
ministers in
my
The
opinion.
ministry
is
when he
man who may be described as constitutionally undevout who is not what the Hebrews call a man of
God his own relations with the ideal taking the
;
'
'
form of
interior colloquy
finely said.
on
The
"
in other
words, in some
real sense
**
This
Christian
Ministry "
that
it."
But
hear the
Jonah
God's
is
meant.
men
is
is
call
call.
ministers.
ministers
God
of
We
do
If the
or to heed
man who
not, indeed,
laymen
all
when they
has run
need a superfluity of
did their
would be required.
hear.
away from
full
But that
duty, fewer
is
an ideal
IN
222
State
ahead of
still far
mand
is
for
us.
more men
to
We
ment
but
we
also
and decay.
to stagnate
I
*'
if
the
work
is
The
not
word
when
The
fewer of such
the exit of
world
of them.
all
calls for
men
The work
God speed
of Christ in the
priestly ecclesiastics
tyrannical
is
heed.
Commending
4.
*'
But
isters of
in
Ourselves as Ministers of
God
God."
'
The merely
negative attitude
is
not
That of
itself
task.
mend
selves.2
2 Cor.
The
vi. 4.
minister's letter of
is
a tremendous
is
this
We
com-
commend themcommendation
2
Meyer, in
to
loco.
TAKING LIFE AS
his flock
is
his
That
life.
IT IS
223
is
The
minister's life
to the world.
says, not as
is
an open book to
is
him
vain for
It is
his
What Emerson
What the preacher
he does.
hterally true.
people and
men do
to bid
he
as
so pithily said
is
thunders so
This appeal to
must meet
life
as
life is
And
is.
it
'
The preacher
inevitable.
Paul
form a
is
not afraid.
climax to Paul's
fit
He
He
it
according to
has placed
it
in
its
probed
his
own
his time.
fulfilled
He makes
for
himself.
But he
is
meed
trial,
willing to face
all
still
is
has
has
ex-
fully
no such claim
all
He
the world.
pointment and
and can
He
He
He
He
ideal
bold contrast
of labour
and anguish.
He
is
God
praise
with a
full
heart.
He
in-
2 Cor.
vi.
4-6.
IN
224
35 his
After
ministry.
all
it
is
He
God
take
had
No
in Christ.
one can
He
Many men
matters.
The seasoned
in grace.
By
been
the camp-fire of
when
Son
the
with them.
attacks of
all
of
men
life
(ci)
them according
is
make un-
he now reviews
his
is
an expansion of "
and
his
a rhetorical de-
experiences.
to three words
artificial as will
Environmerit
division
as
in
can enter
spirits
There
God.
grouping of
not wholly
section
this
Paul's
in
divides
It is
These triumphant
as a minister of
vice
can
hearts.
fully into
No amount
be seen.
He
by^ as?
in^
The whole
in everything."
Conduct.
Bernard
calls
En,
Dia.
Hos,
In
loco.
TAKING LIFE AS
grace
is
manifest in the
opoly in
They
experiences
such
common
are the
frontier
of
life
of Christ.
for
Christ.
as
lot of
he here recounts.
men who go
Missionaries
in
to the
ages can
all
225
IT IS
God
in
It
will
He
it all.
is
a pat-
is
filled.
"
The
is
at issue
he
feel-
fountains
him
as
he
is in all straits, as
he
thinks of what
is
one at a time
liberty,
his soul
is
without
won
is
'
even so he
his
restraint."
But
an
Denney, in loco.
Mentioned twice elsewhere in
Rom.
V. 3.
emotion
this Epistle,
i.
6;
as
xii.
is
12.
2 Cor-
226
IN
inthians.
But
The word
acquiescence.
With
not silent
is
all
He
has Sturm
leash
and keeps to
tience
is
and
in verses four
crush
necessities
And
The
The
Hemmed
endure.
in
on every
Paul
is
for a
Hypomone.
proud
five
spirit
Hke
times with
limit of the
Roman method
prisonments "
particular.
law.^
scourging.'"
he learned pa-
now more
Mosaic
side
yet they
friends.^
The
" neces-
differ.
to
Distresses
tiently
of outward hardships
" afflictions,"
list
The
five.
holds himself in
his task.
'2
He had
of scourging.
also.
They were
Cf.
*'
Rom.
Cf. Rom.
'Cf. I Cor. ix. 7.
6 2 Cor. i. 6 ; xii.
2 Tim. iv. 10
7.
' 2 Cor. xi. 23.
8 2 Cor. xi. 23.
*" Josephus, Ant.,
14, 8, 21.
' Acts xvi.
24, etc.
his
" im-
more abundant
v.
ii.
;
"
"
TAKING LIFE AS
than the
Up
stripes.
IT IS
227
life
we
so that
They
are even
were
really
He knew
"
were
more ex-
toils
"
often."
more abundant.^
and were
*'
body
in the
could find no
many
diary of
of his
rest.
Paul's
words read
He had
a minister of to-day.
also
hunger and
knew what
Paul
health.
thirst,
in
fastings
The pangs
nakedness."^
it
was to be "
often,
in
in
and
cold
all
"
ent hour
Even unto
thirst,
this pres-
and we
toil,
was not
as
Rom.
xix.
8
5
29
it
xvi. 7.
Acts
Cf.
xiii.
This
xviii.
12;
xxi. 30.
'Cf. 2 Cor.
xi. 27.
4
6
2 Cor.
xi. 27.
228
IN
time
Christian
of
origins.
commended
Paul
the
bodily needs.^
lem of actual
good business
living
still
He
expenses.
must possess
ability to
appro-
his family
and lead
his
church in
liberality.
He had
speak
his
in
call
respect of v^ant:
whatsoever state
Not
when
that I
have learned
a blessed secret
is
for
"
in
That
how
to
was
heart with
are faithless.
spirit.
He
is
Holy
borne
Spirit."
aloft
This
him
The Holy
By
Paul had
Spirit
was
3Cf. 2 Cor.
vii.
11.
TAKING LIFE AS
also
is
By
"
knowledge
knowledge of divine
to
certainly in-
of motive.'
particularly
229
IT IS
"
he
refers
His
things.^
Longsuffering
realities.
attributed to God.^
It
is
divine attribute.^
other virtues,
The
an especial
called for in
is
Kindness
a grace often
^ is
is
also
Nothing but the new heart and the new view of man
make
could
The Word
undying.
preaching.
It
The Gospel
power
of
itself to
is
of truth
God
is
a description of
deals with
^^ is
It
^
man which
just
the
eternal
The
realities.
^^
The
may be
cross
to
wisdom
of God.
random remarks.
>
Bernard, in
^Cf.
Tim.
i.
Bernard, in
Rom.
10
"
is
They
2
loco.
16.
3
6
Rom.
loco.
ii.
4 ; ix. 22,
Eph. i. 13.
Cf. 2 Cor. xii. 9.
Cf.
it
etc.
Stanley, in loco.
w Rom.
i.
16.
Cf.
Cor.
xii. 8.
ii.
1
Cf.
Rom.
xii. 9.
Cf. 2 Cor.
Cf.
Cor.
ii.
17.
i.
18.
IN
230
They
very heart.
vital
not merely
Paul's
(b)
"
Christ.
By
the armour
There
is
" through
in."
There
resignation.
is
power of God
by " or
spirit
of
"
The
use of the
his words.
figure of
"
left,
good
passive
words
report and
evil
armour to the
of the Spirit.
life
He had
with the
make
He will
Roman
and
later,
for a
after
soldier
to
He
weapons ^ of righteousness.
the righteousness which
is
there
is
2 Cor.
*Eph.
whom he is chained,
Roman armour as illus-
sal-
Here, however,
it
is
vi. 7f.
vi. I Iff.
Via.
i Thess. v. 8.
eCf. 2Cor. X. 4.
TAKING LIFE AS
righteousness
grace of
offensive
23
IT IS
God
The conception
in the Hfe.'
The
and defensive.
in Christ's righteousness,
is
is
both
battle.
He
Nothing but
this
for
No
he shut
If
the
watchman
sleeps
him
upon the
But, while
alone.
walls of Zion,
young
is
debauched, manhood
is
If the
forces
If
he does
It
is
winks at that
preacher as
it
was with
hands wrought
his
in the
weapon." ^
perience.
iCf.
community, he
evil.
in a sense
Rom.
fight,
the
Nehemiah's men
"
preacher
in building
his
'Neh.
iv. 17.
IN
232
havens
of rest
world.
There
are
is
growing fewer
in
But these
modern
the
drift
now
mobile
rides,
on auto-
for
women
to
come
to learn
*******
Which
is
But who,
our
human
Some
if
awful
Cf. Goldsmith's
it
to the
He must be Wordsworth's
parties,
It will
worth while
week-end
Those who
paper at home.
fret
at
in.
Deserted Village."
TAKING LIFE AS
The outcome may be
honour."
He
'
or
which
may be
He
woe because
is
But
perilous.
of
the preacher to be
But
well of him.
" disfire
men speak
all
the
his
It is useless for
stantly kindling.
hyper-sensitive.
it
233
is
criticism (dishonour)
the
" glory,"
IT IS
even more
is
Some
way.
in Galatia
of his mind.
He
mean
we
to say that
"
entreat
we
offscouring of
become
men."
are
all
made
It
Being
own
bear his
among
brethren.
He
cross.
has
and
all in
a day's journey.
2 Cor.
<
Denney, in
'
Stanley, in loco.
vi. 8.
loco.
2 Cor, x. 2.
Cor. iv. 12
It
false
This
impu-
which he met
was
we
being defamed,
every turn,
It
reviled,
ward
he does
stung his
tations
their
not care.
among
at
the
all
a part of the
'2 Cor.
xii. 14 fF.
Cor. iv. 9.
Cf. I Cor. iv. 13.
f.
IN
234
game
Those
gifts.
He
(c)
Paradoxes
is
in
all.
it
What
has
He
is
the inspiration
and freedom
its
bright and
in Christ.
Antithesis
is
its
dark
side.
all
man
'
He
and
"
Paul's Ministry.
It
is
preacher of Christ.
One
He
'
runs through
school of
all
**
what
of
in the
The
lives of
It
much
most
But
TAKING LIFE AS
men
there are
meet
He
of the ministry.
He
in Christ.^
now
is
began
this
wonderful "digres-
He
interprets to us his
As
us in triumph
song before
in this last
"
than before.
The
is
In the
he says.
this
who
of thanksgiving to
lark.
in the ministry
till
235
real crises
sion "
mould
of heroic
IT IS
knew
of truth,
let
and
life,
time give
remembered
who
One needs
position to Paul
of his day.
ear
to
much
that
must have an
Stanley, in loco.
Roman
world
is
an-
To-day the
a teacher
its final
The preacher
will command
it is
^ 2 Cor. ii. 12
that deceiver " (Matt, xxvii. 63).
^
to Students,"
Second
John
far
f.
vii. 12.
flf.
IN
236
more important
have
to
Paul
one.
of
all
It is
its
though that
aspects,
the reserve
power
in his character
This
tion.
But,
if
in the
is
way
At bottom a
That
Often
a pitifully slender
not to be endured
if it
can be remedied.
and high.
If one's
manhood
to
all
he
may
have.^
him
Paul
is
true
men
will
he
slips
that
rings true,
great
mind,
integrity.
and work.
work with
tell-
what
is
in Paul's
is
idea.
is
apparatus
much about
is
is
He
intellectual integrity.*
is
If
at
all,
proceeds
however
"
Un-
nobody
clesiastical
circles.''
According
to this
high ec-
charge he
'
said.
company
He
No-
could be
of the religious
* My Note-Book,"
p. 90.
Spurgeon, " Lectures to Students," First Series, pp. 282 fF.
Beecher, " Yale Lectures on Preaching," Third Series, p. 293.
6 Cf. 2 Cor. lii. 2
2 Cor. vi. 9.
x. lO.
Phelps,
TAKING LIFE AS
So the
aristocrats.
he
is
" well
he were
IT IS
jibe ran.
as insignificant as his
What
is
fame
If
There
237
"
after all ?
He seemed
a touch
is
As
dying,
always on the
distance.
serious illness
at
with the
But,
ally
virile
his
to
some men
lived to a
ably lived
He
way
It
is
he
actu-
amazing how
is
Paul
fairly
much
Corinth
lo,
No
It is
The
is
body
make
away
effectiveness of a
often
to
killed."^
oblige
His
certainly
them.
enemies
2
2 Cor.
"
As
on
his
* i
dying right
chastened,
interpreted
vi. 9.
light of the
They simply
Cor.
i.
and not
his
troubles to
9.
2 Cor.
vi. 9.
mean
so.
IN
238
God was
that
He
the last
is
man
At any
chastening rod.
He
afflicting
him
he
rate
it
need of the
his
is
Meanwhile he
that.
Be
deny
to
will en-
God can
for him.
will try
is
not
He
There
lost.
is
it all.
Paul
his
lets
"
His opponents
overmuch sorrow
Httle
As
tears
terwoven
perpetual
how
life,
but
it
cheerfulness.^
to be anxious in nothing
God
the time.
all
the peace of
He knew
mock sympathy.
Paul in his
learned
like
plays
it
was
in-
He had
and to have
So
fell
to his lot
God
2Cf.
Paul,
Rom.
v.
hke Chrysos-
3: Phil.
iv. 4, 12.
TAKING LIFE AS
IT IS
torn,
knew what
and
who
preacher
most
is
it
some
popular applause
bitterness in the
"
He
As
his ene-
The word
a pauper.
literally
make money.
ministry to
bottom
poor, yet
was taunted by
means
The
the crowd.
likely to find
making many
239
Precisely this
remove
to
With Paul
this
much
now
tioch was
in
interest in the
brethren
churches
The church
worse.
missionary enterprise
the
home
at Jerusalem
path
the
them-
The Judaizing
ele-
Jerusalem.^
The church
at
An-
information
1
2 Cor.
vi. 10.
is
available,
gave him no
' I
Cor.
xi.
financial aid
240
IN
whatever.
to
do
The
work unaided.
his
thus
left
Paul alone
older and
more en-
come
to his
left
But
sporadic intervals.
own
to his
main he was
in the
Roman
the
human
antipathy, natural
forces
He
depravity, and
and corruption
of sin
He
He worked with
his
own hands
at his trade
Thus he kept
all
the greatest
in
its
evangelize the
Roman
Empire.
calls for
men
difficulties.
this.
a hero,
"
And
others had
it
and
in his efforts
weak man
The
ministry
trial
of mockings and
whom
being
TAKING LIFE AS
caves and the holes of the earth."
241
IT IS
This
'
is
the spirit
who
did
it
to
Jesus.
make many
There
is
no riches
won
Paul's
to Christ
and
yet possessing
all
things."
'
that
He had
in
nothing at
all
Be
store at this
but had
all
He
that
is
that as
won
it
the richest
man
all
He had
to the fulF
in all the
world as he writes
on the
the last words of this matchless panegyric
Christian ministry.
they outweigh
its
all
He
crass
' 1 Cor. i. 5.
xi ^6-38.
ministry
2 Cor. vi. 10. So Jesus in His later
lay His head.
5 Katecho.
1
Heb
' i
Cor.
iii.
22.
to
IN
242
commercialism.
istic
choice.
him
made
his
It
in the
way and
He made
his
He
and
He
material.
the
call
He
has
all,
he has
for
There
him.
He
still
is
life
is
Christ.
wind
is
And
in
him
Christ has
yet.
all
of
" I can
do
all
things in
the work
his face.
in the valley.
He
will
But he
will
down
to
keep on looking
at the face
of
glory of
lifts
to
God
Him
day Paul
who
Some
every one
will
look Jesus
full in
"
For
even as also
then he will
good
>
was
fully
Even
known." ^
fight, I
"
before
have kept
Cor.
xiii. 12.
TAKING LIFE AS
the faith: henceforth there
is
IT IS
laid
up
243
for
me
me
appearing."
"
And
me
all
at that
them
the
right-
many to
*
2 Tim.
f.
Dan,
xii. 3.
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