Christ the Divine Man: Or Deity VeiledHamilton, Adams, and Company, 1880 - 199 Seiten |
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Seite 80 - What presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies! How great the command over his passions! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness and without ostentation?
Seite 130 - It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the Synagogue, and the doubts of the Academy, and the pride of the Portico, and the fasces of the Lictor, and the swords of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust.
Seite 160 - Whatever may be the surprises of the future, Jesus will never be surpassed. His worship will grow young without ceasing ; his legend will call forth tears without end ; his sufferings will melt the noblest hearts ; all ages will proclaim that, among the sons of men, there is none born greater than Jesus...
Seite 78 - Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.
Seite 81 - Yes ! if the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.
Seite 152 - Lord will come, a dreadful form, With wreath of flame and robe of storm, On cherub wings, and wings of wind, Anointed Judge of human kind.
Seite 15 - The advent of man simply as such was the great event prefigured during the old geologic ages. The advent of that Divine Man " who hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light," was the great event prefigured during the historic ages. It is these two grand events, equally portions of one sublime scheme, originated when God took counsel with himself in the depths of eternity, that bind together past, present, and...
Seite 157 - I die before my time, and my body will be given back to the earth, to become food for worms. Such is the fate of him who has been called the great Napoleon. What an abyss between my deep misery and the eternal kingdom of Christ, which is proclaimed, loved, and adored, and is extending over the whole earth...
Seite 17 - God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Seite 153 - A power from the unknown God, A Promethean conqueror came ; Like a triumphal path he trod The thorns of death and shame. A mortal shape to him Was like the vapour dim Which the orient planet animates with light.