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The Questions of Jesus or the Great Physician Dealing With Souls
The Questions of Jesus or the Great Physician Dealing With Souls Author:Arthur Thomson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1867 Original Publisher: A. Elliot 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 selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: WHOSE SON IS HE? Matt, xxii. 43. -- Whose son is He ? They say unto Him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call Him Lord ? To the first question, " Whose son is He ?" the Pharisees had no difficulty in replying at once. " They say unto Him, the son of David ? Did not the Scriptures say, that Christ cometh of the seed of David ? It was foretold, " there shall come a root out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots." That this promise referred to the Messiah was the universal belief of the Jews. Hence the prompt reply, " the son of David." Our Lord's second question, however, was not found to be so easy. " He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call Him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool ? If David then call Him Lord, how is He his son ?" The passage here quoted is taken from the noth Psalm, which all the Jews, these Pharisees, doubtless, among the rest, regarded as referring to the Messiah ; and the thing which our Lord asked them to do, was to reconcile their answer with this quotation. Explain, says He, to these interpreters of the Law, how Messiah can be greater and yet less than David. How can He be at once his sovereign and his son, his root and at the same time his offspring ? " No man was able to answer him a word." They were altogether at a loss. They could not understand how things, seemingly then most opposite, could exist in the same person. Why were they so puzzled ? How did it come to pass, that the able and learned do...« less