A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Books of the New Testament, Vol. 4 of 4 PDF Download

Author: Henry Hammond
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ISBN: 9781331188247
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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Excerpt from A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Books of the New Testament, Vol. 4 of 4: Briefly Explaining All the Difficult Places Thereof From hence is it, that there is so often mention (under divers phrases) of the approach of this coming, as that which would support their patience, and help them cheerfully to persevere, as expecting an issue ere long out of all their troubles. And although the future eternal reward in the resurrection were an excellent motive to this end, yet that being supposed and presumed to be believed and acknowledged by all Christians, as it was not necessary that this foundation should again be laid, so it was not unseasonable to superadd to this (and so often to inculcate) that other consideration of temporal destruction upon these persecutors, and deliverance to the faithful, even in this life, the contrary to which being more probable to the eye of the world, and more believed by carnal gospellers, was then the great engine used to shake the Christian's constancy. And upon this observation are founded many interpretations of several passages, as in the process will appear. And this was a theme fit to be insisted on and inculcated to the Christians not only in Judaea, but in all other parts where the faith was planted, in Asia, and at Rome itself, because of the dispersion of the Jews in all those parts, and so of the persecutions caused by them on the Christians. To which it was consequent in the divine justice, and by the rules of sympathy, which are ordinarily discernible in the suffering of members of the same body, that not only in Judaea and Palestine, but in all other parts, in Syria, and Asia, &c., these destructions should follow them: and so it fell out, according to Christ's words, that wherever the carcass was, thither the eagles should be gathered together; wherever the Jews were, the Roman armies or interdicts found them out and destroyed them. And consequently, as this destruction of the Jews was, among other ends of just vengeance, designed also to rescue and free the Christians in all parts from their pressures, so it was reasonable for the apostles in their Epistles to them in all parts, wheresoever the gospel was received, to comfort them with this assurance, that it should shortly come to pass. To this purpose (as we now discern in their writings, so) Lactantius testifies of their preaching, 1. 4. c. 21. Petrus et Paulus Rom pr dicavemnt, et ea pr dicatio in memoriam scripta remansit. In qua cum multa alia mira, tum etiam hoc futurum esse dixerunt, ut post breve tempus immitteret Deus regem, qui expugnaret Jud os, et civitates eorum solo ad quaret, ipsos autem fame sitique confectos obsideret, tum fore ut corporibus suorum vescereniur, &c. " Peter and Paul preached at Rome, and that which they preached remained written for a memorial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."