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NASB | Luke 22:49 When those who were around Him saw what was going to happen, they said, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 22:49 When those who were around Him saw what was about to happen, they said, "Lord, should we strike with the sword?" |
Subject: The Champion in the Cause of God |
Bible Note: "Behold Jesus Christ in the time of His last sufferings, when His enemies in earth and hell made their most violent attack upon Him, compassing Him round on every side like rending and roaring lions. Doubtless here we shall see the fortitude of a holy warrior and champion in the cause of God in its highest perfection and greatest luster, and an example fit for the soldiers to follow that fight under this Captain. But how did He show His holy boldness and valor at that time? Not in the exercise of any fiery passions; not in fierce and violent speeches, vehemently declaiming against the intolerable wickedness of opposers, giving them their own in plain terms: but in not opening His mouth when afflicted and oppressed, in going as a lamb to the slaughter, and, as a sheep before his shearers is dumb, not opening his mouth; praying that the Father would forgive His cruel enemies because they knew not what they did; not shedding others' blood, but with all-conquering patience and love shedding His own. Indeed, one of His disciples, that made a forward pretense to boldness for Christ and confidently declared he would sooner die with Christ than deny Him, began to lay about him with a sword: but Christ meekly rebukes him, and heals the wound he gives. Never was the patience, meekness, love, and forgiveness of Christ so gloriously manifest as at that time. Never did He appear so much a Lamb, and never did He show so much of the dove-like spirit as at that time. "If therefore we see any of the followers of Christ, in the midst of the most violent, unreasonable, and wicked opposition of God's and his own enemies, maintaining under all this temptation, the humility and quietness and gentleness of a lamb, and the harmlessness and love and sweetness of a dove, we may well judge that here is a good soldier of Jesus Christ." --Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections, p 279 |
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