The Man of Galilee; A New Enquiry ... (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...It shall be called a Kingdom and I will be its King. I propose to be absolute and without a rival; I propose to deal directly with each member of that Society; I will legislate for that Kingdom, and I demand homage, allegiance, obedience, love, and complete surrender to my will. And now we hear a startling announcement. He has no prophet to help him. John is in prison and soon dies. All the prophets are gone. He has no KINGDOM books, He has no newspapers, He has no prestige, no money, no army, no friends. So the Galilean says: --/ will found this Kingdom alone. I will do it by the force of my own will; I will do it by agencies and influences which I myself will establish and put in motion; the laws which I make no authority on earth or in heaven shall repeal or modify, and all the powers of the world and the gates of hell cannot prevail against my work. VII An Echo VII An Echo WE shall ask the reader to observe here a remarkable and purely intellectual feature of this plan: It was complete and perfect at the start. After long and careful study of all that Strauss, Bauer, Schenkel, Renan, and others of their schools have said to the contrary, we find nothing to change our conviction that the Galilean came with a complete and perfect Plan, and that he abated A NEW ENQUIRY nothing, conceded nothing, changed nothing, but carried that Plan straight on with no deviation. Observe again: His plan, regarded merely as a mental conception, is one of immeasurable breadth and reach. It is as wide as the universe, it is as high as the throne of the Infinite. That Plan, as it presents itself to His own mind, ante-dates the Abrahamic age. It even lay in the bosom of the Eternal long before the dawn of human history. It moves mysteriously ECHO behind the..