The Sights and Sounds of Christendom.
I. Our Lord's words suggest the solemnity, the blessedness, of living at a great epoch in human affairs.
II. They also suggest a characteristic of His religion. That which is spiritual and moral, though it be not outwardly striking, is permanent, while that which is merely material, whatever be its magnificence, sooner or later, is surely condemned to perish or be transformed.
III. Why were the eyes that saw and the ears that heard Christ so pre-eminently blessed? Christ's attitude towards men is justifiable only and solely because He is Divine Divine, not in the sense in which all good men are Divine, in that they are gifted by the good God with some rays of His moral perfections; but Divine in the absolute sense of having shared from all eternity in the uncreated life of Deity, so that in Him a Divine Substance became historically incarnate, or, as St. Paul expresses it, all the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in Him bodily.
H. P. Liddon, Penny Pulpit,No. 452.
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