Laws of Life After the Mind of Christ (Volume 59; V. 565); Discourses (English, Ga, Paperback)

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. 1886. Excerpt: ... Matt. xvii. 4: "Lord, it is good for us to be here." Apart from the objective reality of the vision of the Transfiguration, it would be difficult to conceive an emblematic representation more fitted to prove suggestive to a Hebrew imagination. To a mind familiar with the associations of Judaism it would teem with significance. If their hearts had drooped before when Jesus intimated the humiliations through which his glory was to be revealed, now might their courage rise again when for the displaced vision of earthly magnificence they saw their ancient symbol of the Almighty's presence, death transfigured from gloom to brightness by Moses and Elias, who died no man knew how, who were not, for God had taken them, and these idols of the national faith waiting as ministering servants upon Christ and hearing from Heaven, as attesting witnesses, the proclamation of their own subordination.. Well might hearts which had fainted before regather a broken confidence, and exclaim aloud, as light broke confusedly upon them, "Lord, it is good for us to be here." "Christ transfigured" was a kind of evidence that suited the times of the legend. It came to those who looked with the imagination at holythings, and figured the greatness of Messiah through national symbols the significance of which a Jew could not altogether escape. Christ's own difficulty with the Apostles was to reach their convictions through a spiritual evidence. Preoccupied with the most worldly anticipations of what Messiah was to be, they had no relish or affinity for what he was. Strange to say, they had no historical preparations for such a Lord, for if, as he told them, they had read their own prophecies aright, they must have looked for a king who was to rule in meekness, who would not break the br...