The Gospel of the Pentateuch by Charles Kingsley
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just as much as of St. Paul on Mars' Hill at Athens.
So begins and so ends the Old Testament, revealing throughout The Lord. And how does the New Testament begin? By telling us that a Babe was born at Bethlehem, and called Jesus, the Saviour. But who is this blessed Babe? He, too, is The Lord. 'A Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.' And from thence, through the Gospels, the Acts, the Epistles, the Revelation of St. John, he is the Lord. There is no manner of doubt of it. The Apostles and Evangelists take no trouble to prove it. They take it for granted. They call Jesus Christ by the name by which the Jews had for hundreds of years called the El of Abraham, the Jehovah of Moses. The Babe who is born at Bethlehem, who grows up as other human beings grow, into the man Christ Jesus, is none other than the Lord God who created the universe, who made a covenant with Abraham, who brought the Israelites out of Egypt, who inspired the Prophets, who has been from the beginning governing all the earth. It is very awful. But you must believe that, or put your Bibles away as a dream--New Testament and Old alike. Not to believe that fully and utterly, is not to believe the Bible at all. For that is what the Bible says, and has been sent into the world to say. It is, from beginning to end, the book of the revelation, or unveiling of Jesus Christ, very God of very God. |
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