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Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth the wine-vat? Jesus replies, I have trodden the wine-press alone; and of the people there was none with me; and
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I looked and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore, mine own arm brought salvation. Whenever we look to the cross of Jesus, we should eye him as
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It was for them he wept, bled, groaned, agonized, and died. But while Christ crucified is to the
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Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness, it is unto them that are called, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Jesus, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood,
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Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. Jesus suffered a painful, shameful, and ignominious death, to deliver his people from the bitter pains of eternal death. His crucifixion is the procuring cause of their salvation; for he died that they might live. Ought we not to admire and adore the wisdom of our God, who could cause such invaluable good to spring out of what, distinctly considered, was an act of such injustice and cruelty. We see the persecutors of Jesus full of fury and indignation, executing their cruelties on the innocent object of their abhorrence. But, at the same time, we discover, that by their instrumentality, the designs of God are accomplished. Not that their crime is in the least degree lessened. No, the hatred, malice, envy, injustice, rage, and cruelty, was all their own act and deed, and the sin and guilt, consequent on the foul transgression, is with justice laid to their charge. The moral evil of the act, is in nowise diminished by the Lord's overruling it to accomplish his purposes and making it minister to his glory. He can make