Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... thoughts and emotions passes1 through his soul . The taunting attack of his companion in tribulation on Jesus's left, loosens his tongue, whiji had been silent from contrition and reverence. He feels compelled to object against being included in the blasphemous appeal, " If thou be the Christ, save us !" He is constrained to renounce all participation in such insulting language. He knows the importance as well as the awfulness of the moment, which places an opening eternity before him, and feels no longer any fellowship with his companion in crime, as regards the man who is crowned with thorns. He has seen enough in the dignified individual, and has heard enough from him to be able to say to himself, " If this is not the promised consolation of Israel--that consolation will never arrive." He perceives in him, not only the bright mirror of his own degradation, but the only and final anchorage for his hopes. The horror which seizes him at the impious words of his fellow-sufferer is indescribable; and while judging him--to which he was entitled by first condemning himself--he.begins to say to him, " Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation ?" Ah, he himself trembled at the thought of the Judge of quick and dead ! The meaning of his words is as follows: " And thou, who like myself, art weltering in thy blood, and so near eternity, dost thou not fear God, who is a consuming fire to sinners, and who, as certainly as he will justify this righteous man, must pronounce his curse upon those, who, like thee, dare to rail at him. Be not deceived; God does not let himself be mocked." O how moving and heart-affecting is this call to repentance from one delinquent to another! But hear him further: " And we indeed justly, for we...
