Post by Lee on Jul 6, 2014 4:19:47 GMT
Luk 4:17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luk 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luk 4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
We now ask attention to the distinction which is drawn in the prophecy of Isaiah, from which Christ read the words we have been considering, between the mission of his first advent and that of his second—a distinction recognised by Christ in concluding his quotation with the words “To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” Why did he not continue reading from the prophecy, for the words which follow apply as much to him as those which precede them? We have already suggested the answer, and that is that the succeeding words do not apply to the work of his advent in the flesh, but to that of his second appearing, when, having given to the mourners in Zion beauty for ashes, in that change which he will effect in their vile bodies in fashioning them like unto his own glorious body, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, and substituting the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, he will proclaim the day of vengeance of our God; and in its infliction will destroy the wicked and establish the just, and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In the discernment of this distinction between the work of the two advents, we have an instructive illustration of rightly dividing the word of truth. There are many places in the Scriptures where such discernment is necessary, and without which it would be impossible to read them to advantage; but we need not multiply these. The distinction thus drawn is in itself no trifling evidence of the divinity of those writings.
1900 Christadelphian: Volume 37. 2001 (electronic ed.) (365)
Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luk 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luk 4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
We now ask attention to the distinction which is drawn in the prophecy of Isaiah, from which Christ read the words we have been considering, between the mission of his first advent and that of his second—a distinction recognised by Christ in concluding his quotation with the words “To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” Why did he not continue reading from the prophecy, for the words which follow apply as much to him as those which precede them? We have already suggested the answer, and that is that the succeeding words do not apply to the work of his advent in the flesh, but to that of his second appearing, when, having given to the mourners in Zion beauty for ashes, in that change which he will effect in their vile bodies in fashioning them like unto his own glorious body, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, and substituting the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, he will proclaim the day of vengeance of our God; and in its infliction will destroy the wicked and establish the just, and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In the discernment of this distinction between the work of the two advents, we have an instructive illustration of rightly dividing the word of truth. There are many places in the Scriptures where such discernment is necessary, and without which it would be impossible to read them to advantage; but we need not multiply these. The distinction thus drawn is in itself no trifling evidence of the divinity of those writings.
1900 Christadelphian: Volume 37. 2001 (electronic ed.) (365)