The Physical Cause of the Death of Christ; and Its Relation to the Principles and Practice of Christianity

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. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... or temple every day, such being the divine direction.--" This is the offering made by fire, which ye shall offer unto the Lord; two lambs of the first year without spot, day by day, for a continual burnt-offering; the one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even." Types and prophecies thus concurred in announcing that the true lamb of God, who by a public and violent death would ultimately make atonement for the sins of the world, was to be perfect in body and mind, the demand of the law respecting every such victim being, --" It shall be perfect to be accepted: there shall be no blemish therein."--Agreeably to this requirement, as well as to the intrinsic exigency of the case, the human nature of Christ was, as he himself declared, specially provided by the Deity: --"A body hast thou prepared for me;"--and it is obvious that a body so provided could not have been otherwise than perfect. Hence, both the prophet and the apostle describe him as God's--" elect and righteous servant, in whom his soul delighted, who did no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth."--In the primeval promise also, the future deliverer of mankind, who was to bruise the serpent's head, is significantly styled--" the seed of the woman;"--a term evidently implying supernatural interposition, by which alone the prediction could have been realized. The corresponding fact is appropriately supplied by Luke, --"the beloved physician,"--who intimates on angelic authority, that the Saviour's body was formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of a pious Hebrew virgin, whereby he was entirely preserved from the hereditary corruption of fallen humanity, which he must otherwise...