[23] Cf. Dobschuetz, _The Eschatology of the Gospels_, also Schweitzer, _op. cit._, and Sanday, _The Life of Christ in Recent Research_, E. Scott, _The Kingdom of God and the Messiah_, and Moffatt, _op. cit._ [24] Cf. Barbour, _A Philos. Study of Chr. Ethics_, p. 184. [25] 'Jesu predigt in ihrem Gegensatz zum Judenthum.' [26] Cairns, _Christianity in the Mod. World_, p. 173. See Schweitzer, _The Quest of the Historical Jesus_, for advocates and opponents of this view, pp. 222 ff. Cf. also Troeltsch, _op. cit._, vol. i. p. 35. [27] Cf. Moffatt, _op. cit._ [28] Luke iv. 21, xvii. 21; Matt. xii. 28, xi. 2-8, xi. 20; Luke xvi. 16. Cf. also Matt. xiii. 16-17. [29] Our Lord never uses the word 'final' or 'last' of anything concerning the kingdom. Only in the fourth Gospel do we find the phrase 'the last day.' See art., _Contemporary Review_, Sept. 1912. [30] The view of Weiss. [31] Luke xii. 19; Matt xxiv. 13; Mark xiii. 13; 2 Tim. ii. 12. [32] King, _The Ethics of Jesus_, p. 143. [33] Mark xiii. 7-31 has been called the 'little Apocalypse' and the hypothesis has been thrown out that a number of verses (fifteen in all) form a document by themselves, 'a fly leaf put into circulation before the fall of Jerusalem, and really incorporated by the Evangelist himself. See Sanday, art., _Hibbert Journal_, Oct. 1911, and _Life of Christ in Recent Research_. [34] Matt. xxiv. 42. [35] Matt. xxiv. 23. [36] Matt. xxiv. 27. [37] Matt. xxiv. 30. [38] Matt. xxiv. 31. [39] Matt. xxv. [40] E. F. Scott, _The Kingdom and the Messiah_, p. 256. [41] Matt. v. 48. [42] Lev. iv. 11, xix. 2. [43] Mark x. 18. [44] Cf. Orr, _Sin as a Problem of To-day_, chap. iii. [45] Cf. Jacoby, _Neu-testamentliche Ethik_, p. 1. [46] Matt. v. 3 f. [47] Matt. v. 17. [48] Matt. v. 18. [49] Matt. vi. 1-6. [50] Matt. vi. 16-18. [51] Matt. vii. 1-5. [52] Matt. v. 20. [53] Matt. v. 41. [54] 1 John iv. 8, 16. [55] John xvii. 11; Heb. x. 31; Rev. xv. 4. [56] Cf. E. Digges La Touche, _The Person of Christ in Modern Thought_, pp. 150 ff. [57] 1 John iv. 21. [58] Matt. xxii. 37. {146} CHAPTER IX THE STANDARD AND MOTIVE OF THE NEW LIFE In every system of Ethics the three ideas of End, Norm, and Motive are inseparable. Christian Ethics is unique in this respect that it presents not merely a code of morals, but an ideal of good embodied in a person who is at once the pattern and inspiration of the new life. In this chapter we propose to consider these two elements of the good.