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Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren
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Lord of Life and the Master of Death. Men indeed fastened Jesus to
the Cross, but He died, not because He was so fastened, but because
He willed to 'make His soul an offering for sin.' Bound as it were to
a rock in the midst of the ocean, He, of His own will, and at His own
time, bowed His head, and let the waves of the sea of death roll over
it.

III. The triumphant divine paradox of life given and death conquered
through a death.

Jesus is 'Prince' in the sense of being source of life to mankind,
just because He died. Hie death is the death of Death. His apparent
defeat is His real victory.

By His death He takes away our sins.

By His death He abolishes death.

The physical fact remains, but all else which makes the 'sting of
death' to men is gone. It is no more a solitude, for He has died, and
thereby He becomes a companion in that hour to every lover of His.
Its darkness changes into light to those who, by 'following Him,'
have, even there, 'the light of life.' This Samson carried away the
gates of the prison on His own strong shoulders when He came forth
from it. It is His to say, 'O death! I will be thy plague.'

By His death He diffuses life.

'The Spirit was not given' till Jesus was 'glorified,' which
glorification is John's profound synonym for His crucifixion. When
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