The Humiliation of Christ

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Excerpt from The Humiliation of Christ: In Its Physical, Ethical and Official AspectsIN issuing a new edition of T he Humiliation of Christ, I desire gratefully to acknowledge the appreciative spirit in which a very imperfect attempt to discuss a difficult subject of great importance was received by the theological public. In this edition scarcely any alteration has been made in the text of the Lectures which appeared in the first edition But a new Lecture has been added, the Fifth in the present volume, on Modern Humanistic T nearies of C nrist's Person, which completes my original design. In this Lecture I have utilized the notes which appeared in the Appendix of the former edition on tile [deal-man T/teory of Cnrist's Person, and on t/ze title Son of man, replacing them by new notes on other topics. I have also in the same Lec ture embodied the substance of an article on Naturalistic Views of Cnrist's Person, which appeared in the British ana' Foreign Evangelical Review for January 1879. For the benefit of readers not familiar with the Greek and German languages I have given English translations of extracts from these tongues occurring in the Appendix, alpng with the original. I have not thought it necessary to follow the same course with extracts in notes at the foot of the page in the body of the work, because the drift of all such ex tracts is given in the text, so that the English reader loses nothing, except the power of verifying the accuracy of my representations. It was simply for the purpose of such verification that the extracts were given. I trust thatthese additions will have the effect of rendering the book more useful and acceptable. Ifl have not made more ex tensive alterations, it is not for want of a deep sense of the defects of my performance. If there are passages in the volume which do not satisfy the mind of the reader, they probably still less satisfy the mind of the writer. And yet I am not sure that if I were to try I could make them bet ter. Let me express the hope that, in spite of defects, these studies may promote growth in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by their very short comings stir up others to handle the high theme more worthily.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.