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The Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
The Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Author:Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: with one another, Jesus Himself also drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were held, that they should not know Him. And He said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk, and are sad ? And the one, whose name was . Cleophas, answering, said to Him: Art Thou alone a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things that have been done there in these days ? And He said to them: What things? And they said: Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in work and word, before God and all the people; And how our chief priests and rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him. -- (St. Luke xxiv.) " We hoped." They looked upon the Messias as a temporal Prince, who should still free them from the Roman yoke. " We hoped," but they scarcely hoped any longer. How many times in life we have echoed this same faithless despondency. We hoped that so and so would have been done; we looked for suchand such success and results, and it has turned out quite contrary to our expectations, therefore we scarcely believe in our God, nor His promises. " Besides," they continue still trembling on the brink of total loss of faith; " Besides, to-day is the third day." How often are these little-hearted doubts repeated by ourselves. We undertook something for God, and it has not come to pass as we thought it would; "the third day" comes, and while we are desponding and ready to give in, Jesus Himself is at the door. But we hoped that it was He Who should have redeemed Israel; and now, besides all this, to-day is the third day since these things ...« less