ment, and see especially Philippians 2 for the subordinate party in the Trinity satisfying the superior party in the Trinity, who therefore highly exalts Him. Thus men, so-called " r e v e r e n d" men, and doctors of divinity irreverently doc- tor the plain word of God, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men, trampling under foot the clear testi- mony of the Holy Spirit and impudent- ly wresting the words of God's holy witnesses to make them teach a lie, which they before hand vehemently and specifically repudiated.
law are under the curse" the " p e n a l" consequence of lawlessness. ' ' Christ was made a curse for u s ," i.-e. paid the ( " p e n a l ") penalty, made "satisfac- tion," suffered the " l e g a l" consequence of broken law. Again, "God (a super- ior party in the Trinity) hath set forth (Christ Jesus—a subordinate party in the Trinity) to be a propitiation (a legal sufferer) to declare His righteous- ness (justice—a legal term), that He might be just (a legal term) and the justifier (a'legal term) of him which be- lieves in Jesus." Rom. 3:25, 26. This is the clear argument of the apostle everywhere on the subject of atone-
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International Sunday School Lesson as Taught by T. C. Horton At the Bible Institute, Los Angeles. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. October 2nd, 1910.
Israel that their house was left unto them desolate. In the twenty-fourth chapter, the third verse, the disciples come to Him privately and ask Him three questions. And the twentj'-fourth and twenty-fifth chapters are devoted to Christ's answer to these three questions in their order. (1) "When shall these things b e ? " i. e. the overthrow of the temple, the woes upon Jerusalem, etc. Matt. 24: 4-14. In these verses Jesus gives them , a description of the age, viewed from a Jewish standpoint. He tells of the woes, pestilence, earthquakes -and fa- mines, and the overthrow of Jerusalem •by Titus in the year 70. Passing over the church dispensation which at this time was a mystery, He speaks of the tribulation period (vs. 15-28) and of the fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy concerning the coming of the anti-Christ ("Dan. 9:24-27; I I Thes. 2:3-8; Eev. 13: 4-7) of his overthrow and the culmina- tion of the awful tribulation period as seen in Eev. 19:19-21, when Christ will
Matt. 25:1-13. J. E. PEATT.
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I. INTERPRETATION. ' ' THEN shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, etc." WHEN? This is the important ques- tion To know the WHEN is to un- derstand the THEN. The THEN and the WHEN are both easily understood by studying the entire discourse, which includes the twenty-fourth and twenty- fifth chanters. Any other way of treat- ing Christ's teachings would be unfair, and would invite controversy and con- fusion. Jn the twenty-third chapter Christ lwd pronounced His woes upon scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites; foretold the destrnc'ion of Jerusalem, the over- throw of the temple, and declared to
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