124 The Fundamentals. w ki h e o l d w u o m u b ld . sp T e w ak o o j n u l d y g a m s e H nt e s g a a lr v e e ad h y im re w st o e r d ds o , n He th s a t t ru p c e k op E le z e the seventy years' Servitude to Babylon, and then the Captivity -and they were warned that continued impenitence would bring on them the still more terrible judgment of the seventy years' desolations. And till that last judgment fell, Ezekiel remained dumb (Ezek. 3 :26; 24:27; 33:22). But the Lord Jesus Christ needed no such discipline. He came to do the Father's will, and no words ever passed His lips save the words given Him to speak. In this connection, moreover, two £acts which are strangely overlooked claim prominent notice. The first is that in Mark t 1 w 3 e t e h n e t a h n e tit S h o e n sis of is G n o o d t a a t nd all th b e etwF e a e th n er m . an A a n n d d t G he od s , ec b o u n t d be i s that He had been re-invested with all that, according to Phil. 2, He laid aside in coming into the world. "All things have been delivered unto Me of My Father," He declared; and j th ec is te a d t o a f ti mm e e n w " h w e e n re th p e r p e r s o si o n f g s t o h n at H " i Hm e . w H as is d r e e s a p s is s e u d mi a n n g d t r h e e glory awaited His return to heaven, but here on earth the all things were already His (Matt. 11 :27). AFTER THE KENOSIS. The foregoing is surely an adequate reply to the kenosis figment of the critics; but if any should still doubt or cavil, there is another answer which is complete and crushing. Whatever may have been the limitations under which He rested during His ministry on earth, He was released from them when He rose from the dead. And it was in His post-resurrection teaching that He gave the fullest and clearest testimony to the Hebrew Scriptures. Then it was that, "beginning at Moses, h an tr d es al t l h t e he th p in ro g p s h c e o t n s, ce Hrn e in ex g p H ou im nd s e e d lf. u " nto A t n h d em ag i a n in a , ll c t o h n e fi S rm cr i i n p g all His previous teaching about those Scriptures, "He said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you while I was
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