NOTES. NOTE A. THE DESCENT INTO EGYPT. This suggestion was originally made in the Expositor by the Rev. W. G. Elmslie, who connects it with the sojourn of Israel in Egypt. NOTE B.--THE BAPTISM. On this subject compare Owen, Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit, book ii. ch. 4. Owen admits that Christ Spirit in and unto many was probably acted by the extraordinary actions during His career of a private life, but the fulness of gifts for His work He received not until the time of His baptism." NOTE C.-THE TEMPTATION. Compare on this subject the Quarterly Review, 1874, in a review of Farrar's Life of Christ; also a very suggestive sermon by Dr. Maclaren in the Sunday at Home, 1880. The significance of the temptation to Christ is perhaps nowhere more profoundly treated than in Mr. Maurice's Sermons on the Temptation. NOTE D.-THE MIRACLE AT CANA. A striking sermon on this subject will be found in Mozley's Sermons: Parochial and Occasional. The view of the words "Mine hour is not yet come," given in the text, is substantially that presented in the Expositor by Rev. Rayner Winterbotham. Dr. W. G. Ward's essay, previously referred to, is instructive. NOTE E.-THE RESURRECTION. "This presentiment of a resurrection . . . is too feeble very materially and immediately to lighten Job's sorrows. The momentary gleam is swallowed up by the closing darkness, and the benighted wanderer's blindness seems intenser from the supernatural glare of the light that for a moment filled his eye."-A. B. DAVIDSON, A Commentary on Job, Introduction, p. 31. NOTE F.-THE RESURRECTION LIFE. The view taken throughout the chapter is that of Canon Westcott in the singularly profound essay he contributed to the Contemporary Review, vol. xxx. The subject is carefully treated by Dr. E. Robinson in the Bibliotheca Sacra, 1845. Compare also The Risen Lord's Interdict on Mary, by S. D. F. Salmond; The Resurrection of Christ, by R. W. Macan. Cambridge: St. Johnland |