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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 3/16/2004 5:07 AM (GMT -6) |   |
by Brennan Manning
"The Greek and Latin fathers of the Church posed the
question: Could the beauty of Jesus have endured while
he suffered all that was foretold of the Suffering Servant in the
prophecy of Isaiah--a Man of Sorrow murdered for us,
bloodied, despised, disfigured, a worm and not a man,
who knew the nadir of an agony such as no man has ever
dreamed? Was the Crucifixion really beautiful?
For those who saw only the external tragedy, Jesus naked
and nailed, flanked by two criminals, blood streaming from every
wound and pore of his body, it was a horrible spectacle indeed.
But there is more to the death of Jesus than just that.
There is the luminous, transcendent, interior beauty of his soul,
and we must never forget it. The body of Jesus was racked,
broken, bathed in blood, but his soul was ennobled by a dignity,
suffused with a love that illuminated, transformed, and transfigured
his suffering and death. This was the mightiest act of love
ever to rise from a human soul.
Surely the Crucifixion was a brutal, dehumanizing atrocity exteriorly,
but it was beautiful because of the sentiments in Jesus' soul--
unwavering obedience to the glory of the Father and
illimitable love for men."
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 3/16/2004 5:14 AM (GMT -6) | |
by Herman Bavinck
"His exaltation began thus
not first with his resurrection and ascension,
but began already at his cross...
Cross and crown, death and resurrection,
humiliation and exaltation
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 3/16/2004 5:21 AM (GMT -6) | |
"First, in order to remove
the offense of the cross,
we ought to consider the advantage
which we have derived
from Christ's emptying himself (Phil. ii.7);
for thus will the inestimable goodness of God,
and the efficacy of his grace,
be found to remove by its brightness
everything in it that was disagreeable
and shameful."
(Comm. Matt. 26:57)
- John Calvin
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and...
"...for the death of the cross,
which Christ suffered,
is so far from obscuring his high rank,
that in that death
his high rank is chiefly displayed,
since there his amazing love to mankind,
his infinite righteousness
in atoning for sin
and appeasing the wrath of God,
his wonderful power
in conquering death,
subduing Satan,
and, at length, opening heaven,
blazed with full brightness."
(Comm. John 13:32)
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and...The cross itself for Calvin is Christ's throne:
"For there is no tribunal so magnificent,
no throne so stately,
no show of triumph so distinguished,
no chariot so elevated, as is the gibbet
on which Christ has subdued death,
and the devil, the prince of death;
nay more,
has utterly trodden them under his feet."
(Comm. Col. 2:15).
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and...
"For in the cross of Christ,
as in a magnificent theatre,
the inestimable goodness of God
is displayed before the whole world.
In all the creatures,
indeed, both high and low,
the glory of God shines,
but nowhere has it shown more brightly
than in the cross,
in which there has been
an astonishing change of things,
the condemnation of all men
has been manifested,
sin has been blotted out,
salvation has been restored to men;
and, in short,
the whole world has been renewed,
and everything restored to good order."
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