List of Contributors to Volume X. REV. PROFESSOR BENJ. W. BACON, D.D., YALE UNIVERSITY. VERNON BARTlet, M.A. REV. PROFESSOR J. H. BERNARD, D.D. REV. ARMSTRONG BLACK. REV. A. A. BURD. REV. A. E. BURN, M.A. REV. ARTHUR CARR, M.A. REV. PROFESSOR T. K. CHEYNE, D.D. REV. PROFESSOR A. B. DAVIDSON, D.D. REV. PROFESSOR MARCUS DODS, D.D. LATE PROFESSOR HENRY DRUMMOND, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. REV. PROFESSOR R. A. FALCONER, D.D. REV. J. MONRO GIBSON, M.A., D.D. REV. CANON GIRDLESTONE, M.A. REV. J. R. ILLINGWORTH, M.A. REV. PROFESSOR A. N. JANNARIS, M.A. C. H. W. JOHNS, M.A. REV. J. H. KENNEDY, D.D. Rev. H. J. C. KNIGHT, M. A. REV. PROFESSOR JOHN LAIDLAW, D.D. REV. F. WARBURTON LEWIS, B.A. REV. PROFESSOR WALTER LOCK, D.D. REV. PROFESSOR ALLAN MENZIES, D.D. REV. GEORGE MILLIGAN, M.A. PROFESSOR W. M. RAMSAY, D.C.L., LL.D. REV. JOHN WATSON, D.D. REV. NEWPORT J. D. WHITE, B.D. THE EXPOSITOR. EDITED BY THE REV. W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A., LL.D. FIFTH SERIES. Volume X. London: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCXCIX. THE DOCTRINES OF GRACE. V. THE VICARIOUS SACRIFICE OF JESUS CHRIST. WHEN Caiaphas, the titular Jewish High Priest and the agent of a much more crafty man, the actual High Priest Annas, laid down this principle in the High Council of the nation that it was expedient one man should die for the nation, and used this principle as an argument for the judicial murder of Jesus Christ, Caiaphas afforded a remarkable illustration of how one may mean what is utterly false and may at the same time say what is profoundly true. Caiaphas in this utterance was defending the most wicked act in all human history, and he was declaring one of the most precious truths in all human experience. What he meant was that it would be a good stroke of policy to silence Jesus for ever, because Jesus was teaching unwelcome truths, and might deliver His fellow-countrymen from the yoke of the Temple exactions. What really happened as the result of his action was that Jesus overcame the power of sin upon the Cross of Calvary and achieved the spiritual deliverance of the human race. Many good things, as, for instance, the English Reformation, have sprung from the basest of motives, and one has ever carefully to distinguish between the malign scheme of the Jewish ruler, which is ever to be reprobated, and its splendid results in the redemption of Jesus Christ. For in this case also God made light to spring out of darkness, and where sin abounded grace has much more abounded. JULY, 1899. I VOL. X. 253712 |