The Evolution of the Messianic Idea

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Excerpt from The Evolution of the Messianic Idea: A Study in Comparative ReligionPeriod of the world's history. The Special reve lation, for example, in the Person of Jesus Christ, is the climax of what thinking men from the first dawn of understanding were feeling for and, no doubt unconsciously, looking forward to. It is, therefore, true to say that there were rudimentary stages of a belief in Christ during untold ages before men saw Him in the ¿esh it is also true to say that Messianic prophecy in the Old Testa ment by no means exhausts all that was surging in men's minds concerning Him that was to come. It is difficult to doubt that St. Paul included all mankind when, in addressing the Athenians, he spoke of those who should seek God, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us for in Him we live and move, and have our being, 1 with this St. Peter's words to Cornelius are in entire agreement Of a truth. I perceive that God is no respecter of persons but in every nation he that feareth Him and worketh righteousness is acceptable to Him. 2 It is not possible for a believer to conceive of a time during which God's interest in His highest creation was not actively shown forth, and therefore it must be the fact that untold millenniums ago, as soon as thought became articulate in man, the Spirit of God was.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.