Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sermons on Various Subjects, Preached in Different Congregations of the Church in England and Ireland
The Pharisees then stood before Jesus as the apparent guardians of Scriptural truth, the Herodians as the maintainers of Caesar's right; both parties lying in wait for His answer, as that by which He should surely commit Himself against God or Caesar. But the principal aim of the question was to make Him say something which should give the Romans a handle against Him. Therefore was such flattery used in introducing the question, We know that Thou teachest truth from God, with no mixture Of human error in it. We know that Thou fearest no man, not even the highest upon earth, the emperor himself; Thou regardest no man's person. The truth which we are afraid to utter before the Romans, Thou art not afraid to speak; and to speak not pri vately amongst Thy friends, and those who agree with it, but even before the most devoted subjects Of the Romans in the midst Of us. Therefore have we the Pharisees, Thy friends, who have the same abstract truth in us that Thou Thyself earnest forth to declare, brought these Herodians with us that they may see, and their master Herod, too, and the Romans also, Herod's master and theirs, that there is at least one man in Israel who is not afraid to stand on God's side, who came from God and maintains God's cause, and will not be deterred, by all the legions Of Rome and Rome's proud emperor, from speaking the truth which God would have spoken. The Pharisees, no doubt, calculated that the presence of the Herodians was most likely to influence Jesus to maintain the more strongly the right Of God to be the alone ruler of Israel. They remembered, no doubt, how the Lord had called Herod that fox. 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.
