A Discourse on Denying the Lord Jesus

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ... verts, from the example of Jesus. " Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." Now can you believe, that when the apostle is exhorting his brethren, to think of others more highly than themselves, he would mention as an instance of Christ's humility, that He did not think his own Father higher than himself; that He thought it nothing wrong to claim an equality with the infinite Jehovah! A singular way indeed of promoting humility; and making Christians of the same mind with Christ. No. No, you will not attribute such absurdities to the pen of the inspired Paul. What then must we do 1 Does not the passage read, that " he thought it not robbery to be equal with God 1" In our translation, it does. But you should remember that this epistle was written in the Greek language. And you may know that scholars of all parties agree that our translation of this sentence is not correct. What then is the true rendering? The literal meaning of the Greek words is this. " He did not think of the robbery, the being like God." Although created in the express image of God, he did not think of the robbery of being like God; did not think of the robbery of claiming an equality with his Father; but humbled himself; so that God has highly exalted him, even at his right hand. This makes the apostle consistent and sensible, and even powerful. This passage, therefore, contains positive evidence that Jesus is not equal with God; nay, that he never thought of the presumption of claiming equality with his heavenly Father. Phil. ii. 5, 11. What then must be our conclusion 1 The Old Testament does not contain one passage in which it is either declared or implied, that the son is equal with God. On the contrary, it is its uniform testimony, that God has no...