The Truth of Christianity: Being an Examination of the More Important Arguments For and Against Believing in That ReligionTurton, W. H. (William Harry)
Religion
The Truth of Christianity: Being an Examination of the More Important Arguments For and Against Believing in That Religion
Turton, W. H. (William Harry)
Apologetics
22. And now the strain suddenly changes, the Sufferer is
restored to life and freedom and at once declares God's name
unto His brethren. And this exactly agrees with Christ's now
declaring for the first time God's complete _Name_ of, Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, unto His _brethren_, as He calls them, the
Apostles.[388] While if we identify this appearance with that
to the five hundred, it was literally _in the midst of the
congregation_--in the presence, that is, of the first large
Christian assembly.
[Footnote 388: Matt. 28. 10, 19.]
23. Moreover, His deliverance is of world-wide significance,
and great blessings are to follow from it. These commence with
the Jews, who were to _praise_ and glorify God; though with a
strange feeling of _awe_ and fear; all of which was exactly
fulfilled.[389]
[Footnote 389: Acts 2. 43-47.]
24. And the blessings are somehow connected with God's not
having despised, but having accepted, His sufferings.
25. And they include a reference to some _vows_ (meaning
uncertain);
26. and to a wonderful feast generally thought to refer to the
Holy Communion.
27. And the blessings then extend to the Gentile nations also,
even to the most distant parts of the world, who are now to
become worshippers of the true God, Jehovah. And, as a matter
of fact, Christians exist in all known countries, and wherever
there are Christians, Jehovah is worshipped.
28. To Whom the whole earth, both the Jewish kingdom and the
Gentile nations, really belongs.
29. And to Whom everyone will eventually bow down.
30. After this we read of a _seed_ serving Him, probably used
here, as in Isaiah, for disciples, each generation of whom is
to tell of this wonderful deliverance to the next. And this
they have been doing for eighteen centuries.
31. And so they will continue doing to generations that are yet
unborn. While the closing words, _He hath done it_ (R.V.) are
often taken as referring to the whole Psalm, meaning that the
work of suffering and atonement was now complete, _It is
done_;[390] and they would thus correspond to Christ's closing
words on the Cross, _It it finished_.
[Footnote 390: Hengstenberg, Commentary on Psalms, 1867, vol.
i., 396.]
Everyone must admit that the agreement all through is very
remarkable; though there are two slight objections.
(2.) _Two objections._
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