employed in the same sense as, and indeed looks back to, previous
words. For he had just quoted Moses' declaration, 'A prophet shall
the Lord your God raise up unto you from your brethren.' So it is
Christ's equipment and appointment for His office, and not His
Resurrection, which is spoken about here. 'His Son Jesus'--the
Revised Version more accurately translates 'His Servant Jesus.' I
shall have a word or two to say about that translation presently, but
in the meantime I simply note the fact.

With this slight explanation let us now turn to two or three of the
aspects of the words before us.

I. First, I note the extraordinary transformation which they indicate
in the speaker.

I have already referred to his cowardice a very short time before.
That transformation from a coward to a hero he shared in common with
his brethren. On one page we read, 'They all forsook Him and fled.'
We turn over half a dozen leaves and we read: 'They departed from the
council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for
His name.' What did that?

Then there is another transformation no less swift, sudden, and
inexplicable, except on one hypothesis. All through Christ's life the
disciples had been singularly slow to apprehend the highest aspects
of His teachings, and they had clung with a strange obstinacy to
their narrow Pharisaic and Jewish notions of the Messiah as coming to
establish a temporal dominion, in which Israel was to ride upon the
necks of the subject nations. And now, all at once, this Apostle, and
his fellows with him, have stepped from these puerile and narrow