A. T. Robertson-The Christ Of The Logia-

Author: A. T. Robertson

Title: The Christ Of The Logia

Publisher / Editor: George H. Doran

Format: PDF

Size Of File: 5.26 MB

Pages: 247.

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The essays in the present book deal with the greatest question of all the ages,that put by Jesus to the Pharisees and Sadducees at the close of the great temple debate:""What think ye of the Christ ? "(Matt. 22 :42) .That question is still the touchstone of all high thinking and right living.Old Simeon had said of the Babe: "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel" (Luke 2: 34).And Jesus boldly denounced the conspirators at the end who had rejected Him:"And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken jto pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall,it will scatter him as dust" (Matt. 21 :44).The world has tried to do without Jesus,but it has failed. Men have tried hypocrisy,but Jesus at last uncovers the wolf beneath the sheepskin.They have denounced Him as a dreamer and as in the way of the progress of the superman,but the very wrath of man has turned to praise at last.The law of the jungle in war and rapine
and selfishness have driven man back to the foot of the Cross.The law. of love is the law of life.The whole world lay in the grip of the evil one in John's day (1 John 5:19).The only ;deliverer now as then is Jesus.Men have tried to laugh sin away,but the grim reality mocks, their laughter.Scholarship has dealt relentlessly with the sources of our knowledge of Jesus according to the severest tests of modern science.Some thought that the new knowledge had explained Jesus away as a myth of the morning. or a legend of the night.But Jesus remains after all is done.He stands forth in clearer light than ever before.He stands on the heights of purity and of pity and calls to a lost and ruined world to follow him as of old. In these essays the facts of modem
research are faced with candor.The weapons that scholarship once used against Christ are turned against His foes.The Light of the world is still Jesus of Nazareth.The picture is turned now this way, now that.But each facet shows the Christ of faith and of hope to be the Jesus of history and of life.The Greeks still come and say:"Sir, we would see Jesus."May we be able to show Him to the seekers after Truth.The lesson of real scholarship is humility and reverence.The oldest document about Christ known to modern scholarship,the so-called Logia of Jesus,pictures the same Jesus seen in the rest of the New Testament.Good will come out of the new interest in the Virgin Birth, the Eesurrection,and the actual Deity of Jesus Christ.Men will be
brought back to a fresh and prolonged study of the records of Christ in the New Testament and in
human history.The more men know of Christ the more worship they will give Him.