An Introduction to the New Testament, Containing an Examination of the Most Important Questions Relating to the Authority, Interpretation and Integri - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... unless the feast had been still to come. But in the words, " For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven," etc., the spiritual or Christian sense is far more prominent than any allusion or literal reference to the Jewish passover. Nor is it at all necessary to suppose that the words were immediately suggested by the near approach of Easter. The metaphorical language is introduced by a proverb, and is continued. All that can be asserted is, that the proverb may have been suggested by the approach of the passover. But the entire passage can be explained fully and satisfactorily without any allusion to an approaching festival, the sacrifice of Christ being here represented as a passover, to complete the figure. Hugm indeed has taken great pains to prove, that the passage is unintelligible if it do not refer to the passover as the time of writing, but his remarks are singularly inconclusive. V. State of the church when Paul wrote. A church gathered from among the inhabitants of Corinth may be supposed to have contained elements demanding special care and culture. Surrounded by prevailing immorality and licentiousness, it was difficult to preserve that purity which true Christianity requires. Established amid excessive corruption, the society soon fell into disorder. The seeds of former vice had not been wholly eradicated from the hearts of the converts. Former habits had left a lingering influence which it was very difficult fully to subdue. The piety of the believers was of a less steady and consistent character than it would probably have been, had their state been different before conversion. The depravity in which they lived and moved at one time, exerted a considerable power over their conduct, ...

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