The Life of the Lord Jesus Christ, Vol. 3 of 4: A Complete Critical Examination of the Origin, Contents, and Connection of the Gospels (Classic Reprint)

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Messiah, had already fallen away from this heavenly vision, and had placed itself in direct opposition to it; so that the palm-pro cession also was ignorantly hushed up by the foreboding of the opposed hostile power, while, on the contrary, the tears of the grief of Christ hallowed it. Yes! This noble eagerness for the Messiah in Israel was so little beside desire, hope, and longing, SO much of a womanly cry (bridelike, cry of the people, perhaps), that it was not able to protect the Lord against the designs of the hostile power Opposed to Him; so that almost immediately upon the Hosanna, ' followed the Crucify Him But in this weakness of the growing society of Christ lay also its power. The Lord had now trained for Himself a company of disciples, who could allow His crucifixion to occur without obscuring its pure influence with fanatical deeds of violence; who could see Him die on the cross without alto gether despairing of His truth and dignity, and of His kingdom; and who, after all, were altogether matured for the purpose of adopting in themselves the faith in the crucified Saviour of the world.

And this leads us to the most real and substantial solution of the question, Why Jesus could not yield to the allegiance of the people three years before, and yet could do so now? We should neither be able, nor do we wish, to conceive what would have been the result, had there been at that earlier time a Messianic entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. But we 'know this, from this procession now followed the crucifixion, and from the crucifixion issued the salvation of the world.

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