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Excerpt from The Cross of Christ
And first, let us distinguish between the divine and the human, the essential and what is merely incidental with regard to the Cross of Christ. In all the later ages of Christianity, the Cross of Christ has been presented in aspects with which the mind of man has had little or no quarrel. Presented to the mind objectively, as the mystic symbol of Almighty superintendence, or Divine condescension, con nected with the behests of authority, or the achievements of conquest, the trophies of power, or the triumphs of virtue, it does not, as the general rule, offend. As betokening the challenge of supremacy, or the claim of dominion, historic note or national vestige as the Cross opposed to the Crescent - it does not revolt. As vaguely distinctive of the great message of human redemption, or as denoting the grand conflict between good and evil, going on upon the theatre of the world, little or no objection is urged to it. Used only to denote the being of God and the immortality of man, Christianity as the choice of a religious creed. 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.
