ISBN: 9781232254980

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...might have been called the king of Israel: but the disciples knew their King was living, and those who believed it not put James to death, perhaps on account of that possibility. Had James been, as some have suggested, a son of Joseph, he, and not the son of Mary, being indeed the rightful king of Israel, our Lord, who was "the Truth," could not have allowed that title to be given to Himself untruly. The Pharisees recognized His descent, when they expressed the fear lest if all believed on Him the Romans would take away their place and nation. It was the king, not the 1 In the Douay Bible the woman in Rev. xii. is called the Church. 2 Dr. Owen and Bp. Middleton point out the article as emphatic in Matt. i. 23. Exod. xiii. 2. Teschendorf, &c. 5 It is supposed Mary went to Bethlehem, Luke ii. 5, because she was an heiress. (Bloomfield's Greek Test.) 6 "The Jews themselves say he was nearly allied to the kingdom." (Gill, from Sanhedr. fol. 43.) 1 Layard, &c. teacher, whom the Romans would oppose. By Divine pre-ordination those very Romans proclaimed His title on the cross, a spectacle to men and angels. When He, the King of the Jews, and of the universe, crowned with His first but not His only crown, was lifted up, according to the typical prophecy 1, on the predicted hill of Zion, He said to His desolate and soul-pierced mother, " Woman, behold thy son;" and the beloved disciple took her to his own home. Is it not evident she had no other son? So said the voice of tradition, so the voice of nature when not made dumb by prejudice. Without such prejudice it might well be asked how any woman, above all any mother, could admit the possibility that the most highly honoured, the blessed among women, could have a thought, a feel... Books List_Books<

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