The Teaching of Jesus Part 14

Footnote 35: _Studies in Theology_, p. 83.

Footnote 36: See Hastings' _Dictionary of the Bible_, Art. "Sin," vol.

iii. p. 533.

Footnote 37: This is the R.V. marginal rendering of Gen. iv. 13.

Footnote 38: R.W. Dale, _Evangelical Revival and other Sermons_, p. 66 ff.

Footnote 39: _The Kingdom of G.o.d_, p. 203.

Footnote 40: In his famous sermon on the Pharisees, _University Sermons_, p. 32.

Footnote 41: R.W. Church, _Gifts of Civilisation_, p. 71.

Footnote 42: Prov. iv. 7: "Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding," which does not mean simply, "Whatever else you get, be sure to get understanding." The marginal reference is to Matt. xiii. 44: wisdom, like the pearl of great price, is to be secured with, _i.e._ at the cost and sacrifice of, everything else that can be gotten. (See J.R.

Lumby on "Shortcomings of Translation," _Expositor_, second series, VOL.

iii. p. 203.)

Footnote 43: 2 Cor. v. 9 R.V. margin.

Footnote 44: _Laws of Christ for Common Life_, p. 59.

Footnote 45: _Bible Characters: Stephen to Timothy_, p. 95.

Footnote 46: _On the Authorized Version of the New Testament_, p. 14.

Footnote 47: I am indebted for these two quotations to Bishop Paget's _Spirit of Discipline_, p. 66.

Footnote 48: P. Carnegie Simpson, _The Fact of Christ_, pp. 116, 117.

Footnote 49: _Time and Tide_, p. 224.

Footnote 50: F.G. Peabody, _Jesus Christ and the Social Problem_, p.

219.

Footnote 51: Emerson had surely overlooked this n.o.bler meaning of the word when he wrote, "They [the English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer, for the queen's mind; ask neither for light nor right, but say bluntly, 'grant her in health and wealth long to live'"

(_English Traits_).

Footnote 52: To those who are interested in the subject of this chapter Prof. Peabody's book already referred to, and an article ent.i.tled "The Teaching of Christ concerning the Use of Money" _(Expositor,_ third series, vol. viii. p. 100 ff.) may be recommended.

Footnote 53: _Studies in Theology_, p. 239.

Footnote 54: "There is no subject on which it is more difficult to ascertain the teaching of Christ than that which relates to the future of the kingdom."--A.B. Bruce, _The Kingdom of G.o.d_, p. 273.

Footnote 55: J. Agar Beet, _The Last Things_, p. 46.

Footnote 56: Marcus Dods, _The Parables of our Lord_ (first series), p.

238.

Footnote 57: _Cathedral and University Sermons_, p. 10.

Footnote 58: John Watson, _The Mind of the Master_, pp. 203, 204.

Footnote 59: See T.G. Selby's _Imperfect Angel and other Sermons_, p.

211. Cf. Zachariah Coleman in "Mark Rutherford's" _Revolution in Tanners Lane_: "That is a pa.s.sage that I never could quite understand. I never hardly see a pure breed, either of goat or sheep. I never see anybody who deserves to go straight to heaven or who deserves to go straight to h.e.l.l. When the Judgment Day comes it will be a difficult task."

Footnote 60: See the very striking and beautiful chapter ent.i.tled "The Continuity of Life" in Watson's _Mind of the Master_.

Footnote 61: See T.G. Selby's _Ministry of the Lord Jesus_, p. 279.

Footnote 62: R.W. Church, _Human Life and its Conditions_, p. 103.

Footnote 63: In a striking article ent.i.tled "The Old Antinomianism and the New" (_Congregational Review_, Jan. 1887).