Love Revealed; Meditations on the Parting Words of Jesus with His Disciples
by George Bowen (9781150682230)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 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 books for free. Excerpt: ' When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of who;. he spake. Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, -who is it ? Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.' -- John xm. 21-26. When he had thus said -- that is, had informed his disciples that theywhom he should send were to be in a certain sense clothed with his own dignity; that they were to be his ambassadors to the nations and his representatives on the earth. Not all of them, however; one of this very band should prove an emissary of Satan, and should betray him. He was troubled in spirit as he made this announcement. It was not a new thought to him. From the very beginning he had been aware that there was in Judas what no amount of influence -- no exhibition of love, of wisdom, of power, of holiness -- would subdue, and the trouble that was now manifested in speaking of his treachery had hitherto inhabited his heart. He was a man of sorrows; he bore about with him many sorrows that were unknown to others, and this was one of them. There was ever before him this repulsive exhibition of humanity, suggesting thatthe heart of man is invincible in its hatred of good. ' In vain your loving words and acts are ...

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