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. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... XXII. THE GOSPEL TO THE GREEKS. V.--THE PRAYER. "Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name."--John xii. 27, 28. If, as many suppose, the Greeks who desired to see Jesus, came to beg that He would ...
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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. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... XXII. THE GOSPEL TO THE GREEKS. V.--THE PRAYER. "Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name."--John xii. 27, 28. If, as many suppose, the Greeks who desired to see Jesus, came to beg that He would abandon the ungrateful Jews--of whose fatal hostility they were aware --and travel with them to some foreign court in which they could assure Him of an honourable welcome, it is easy to understand that, as He listened to their request, He would feel more deeply than ever the gravity of the approaching crisis, and set Himself to consider both how He was to meet it, and how He could prepare his disciples to meet it. That He could only meet it by submitting to the worst which the malice of the Jews could do against Him, that He could only redeem men by freely laying down his life for them all, I suppose He never doubted for a moment. That He did not doubt it at this moment is plain, I think, from his reply to the petition of the Greeks--from his parable of the grain of wheat, which must die in order that it may live; and from the paradox which followed it on losing life in order to save it. Nor is it less plain that He was bent on bracing and fortifying the minds of his disciples for what was about to happen: or why should He have taken such pains to bring out the bright and hopeful aspects of the death by which He was to glorify God? Why did He remind them of the corn which only falls into the earth and dies in order that it may live and bring forth much, fruit? Why remind them of the saying He had often used before, that to love life more than duty was to lose it, while to lose life in the discharge of duty was to save it unto life eternal? Why...
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