The Bible Herald (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. 1878 Excerpt: ...Messiah during His ministry upon the earth--and for the Holy Ghost whom they were then resisting. Some profitable remarks were made as to the way Stephen was fashioned in the sixth chapter, in order to make him what he was in the seventh. In other words, he was receptive to a degree in the former, that he might be without a fault in the latter. In truth Stephen's receptivity was so continuous that its effects on the beholders was, as if his face was as the face of an angel--but this was preparative. The main object was to form and fill Stephen as a vessel of testimony for chapter seven--so that all this receptive power with which his vessel was charged, should only be the measure of its outlet, and of its conductivity (like a telegram) as he flashes his testimony round the wide sphere of all God's actings from the day He appeared to Abraham, to the hour of their resistance of the Holy Ghost. The power of this, conductivity in Stephen was so perfect that he could by the Spirit write the sentence of death upon the betrayers and murderers of Christ, that they even gnashed upon him with their teeth. Its conductivity was equally perfect upward to the Son of man, so that it wrote the assurance of glory on Stephen who called out, and said, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit." Its conductivity rose yet higher in its quality, when "he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." It completes itself and is perfected in the comment of the Holy Ghost, "When he had said this, he fell asleep "--for me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. The opposite of this was then brought forward from Samson and Delilah, as a proof of Satan's crafty power against the Nazarite. It is wonderful to see that as long as he he...