Synopsis
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. 1871. Excerpt: ... pression to-day precedes the phrase I declare, and no one can mistake the meaning. But in the answer of our Lord to the thief, the word to-day does not precede but follows the words "I say unto thee," thus giving a totally different sense. The objector says: "Transposing this sentence without altering the sense, and wTe have phraseology similar to that of Luke xxiii. 43." But you cannot transpose the sentence without altering the sense, for the order of the wrords determines the sense. So that, whilst all agree as to the meaning of the phraseology in Zech. ix. 12, no respectable commentator or critic, so far as we know, has understood our Lord's language in the same way. The learned Quinoel, referring to the interpretation we are opposing, says it renders the sentence satis frigida, sufficiently frigid, and "the very order of the words and the formula, Verily I say unto thee, repudiate this conjecture." f " Mortal or Immortal," pp. 54-57. t "Ita vero procederet sententia satis frigida, et ipse All such attempts to force an unnatural mean ing upon the language of Jesus only serve to confirm the obvious interpretation. This one passage, were there no other, is fatal to the doctrine of the mortality and unconscious sleep of the soul, as it is cheering to the heart of the true believer. 3d. The dying prayer of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is a further refutation of the doctrines under consideration, and a further confirmation of the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." His body was about to return to the earth as it was; his spirit he committed into the hands of that Saviour for whose truth and glory he was laying down his life. There could be no meaning in t...
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
