Lessons on the I. Names and Titles of Our Lord, II. Prophecies Concerning Our Lord, and Their Fulfillment; The Fifty-Two Lessons Forming a Year's Course of Instruction for Bible-Classes, Sunday-Schools, and Lectures (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. 1888 Excerpt: ...These holy men were like lamps lighted hour after hour through a long night till the rising of the sun, Mai. iv. 2; Luke i. 68-70; Acts iii. 20-24; vii. 52; x. 43; Rom. i. 1-3; 1 Pet. i. 10-12. They did not speak their own thoughts, 2 Pet. i. 20, 21, and Rev. xix. 10. We shall study several of these prophecies, and our first lesson in them is what Isaiah wrote, between seven and eight hundred years before Christ came, that He who was to come would be born of a virgin, Isa. vii. 14. By 'virgin' we are not to suppose the prophet meant merely his own wife, or some other young married woman, that would be unworthy of Isaiah's grand language, but what the word strictly and properly means. The words of St. Matthew i. 18-25, of St. Luke i. 26, 27, of Mary herself, and of the angel, Luke i. 34, 35, make this plain and certain. Note. It is probable that what St. Luke wrote in his first and second chapters concerning our Lord's birth and childhood he had learned Irom 'Mary, the mother of Jesus, ' read Luke i. 1-4 with Acts i. 14. Joseph was 'supposed' to be the father of Jesus, Matt. xiii. 55; Luke iii. 23, and by Mary was called so, Luke ii. 48, but that was only as among us a stepfather is commonly called 'father, ' for an easy and courteous way of speaking. By His reply to His mother in verse 49, Jesus at once showed that He owned no earthly father, knowing that His only Father was God, John v. 17, 18. That Jesus was the son of Mary is as certain as that He was not the son of Joseph; but it is to be observed that although some of the unbelieving Jews called Him (as Mahometans do now) 'the son of Mary, ' Mark vi. 3, our Lord never spoke of Himself, nor did any evangelist or disciple speak or write of Him by that description. These facts should guide us in our way of s