Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the LordAbbott, Edwin Abbott
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Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord
Abbott, Edwin Abbott
Christian fiction; Jesus Christ -- Fiction
“For this cause, in part methinks, Jesus calleth himself the Son of man;
as if to shew that he is willingly subject to all the fleshly weaknesses
wherewith the All‐Wise hath encompassed the souls of men to the end that
they may depend on Him. For he teacheth that he, being the weakness of
man, shall be made strength and exalted to the very throne of God, and we
with him; so that we shall reign with God, and the Kingdom of God shall
also be a Kingdom of man, according as it is said, ‘What is man that thou
art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him? Thou madest
him to have dominion over the works of thy hands: thou hast put all things
in subjection under his feet.’”
“Yea, but,” said I, “the Psalmist speaketh only of the things of the
earth, to wit, the ‘sheep and oxen and the beasts of the field, the fowl
of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the
paths of the seas.’”
But to this Nathanael made answer, “In the Kingdom of God the Son of man
shall be Lord over all things in heaven and earth, not on earth merely;
yea, over death itself, and over the Evil Nature in man. For this cause,
even as an earnest of that which is to come, our Master checketh and
chideth diseases and devils in them which be possessed. For our Master
hateth the devils and diseases even as he hateth the sins of men,
esteeming them as the work of Satan, and not as the work of his Father.
But the course and appointed order of the world he esteemeth as the
vesture of God, whereof he would not disturb one single fold.”
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