Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Man of the Ages, and Other Recent Sermons
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. - St. John viii. 58.
There is a confusion of tenses in this saying of Jesus Christ which strikes strangely upon the ear. It is language evidently from some sphere foreign to our earth. It seemed to the Jews awful blasphemy, for it was so that God had named Himself to Moses out of the burning, fiery bush on Horeb. Jesus Christ dared to rise, in His conflict with the baffled Pharisees, to this sublimity of presumption. There He stood, a care-worn peasant of Galilee, with nothing in the outward conditions of His life to separate Him from the humblest of His fellows. It was the claim of a lunatic, which could not have survived beyond the moment of its utterance, had there not been something in Him to give it dignity and conceivability.
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