[22] J. Weiss, Die Predigt Jesu vom Reiche Gottes. Cf. also Wernle, Die Anfänge unsurer Religion, who is not so pronounced. Bousset rejects this view, and Titius, in his N. T. Doctrine of Blessedness, regards the kingdom of God as a present good. See also Moffatt, The Theology of the Gospels.
[23] Cf. Dobschütz, The Eschatology of the Gospels, also Schweitzer, op. cit., and Sanday, The Life of Christ in Recent Research, E. Scott, The Kingdom of God and the Messiah, and Moffatt, op. cit.
[24] Cf. Barbour, A Philos. Study of Chr. Ethics, p. 184.
[25] 'Jesu predigt in ihrem Gegensatz zum Judenthum.'
[26] Cairns, Christianity in the Mod. World, p. 173. See Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, for advocates and opponents of this view, pp. 222 ff. Cf. also Troeltsch, op. cit., vol. i. p. 35.
[27] Cf. Moffatt, op. cit.
[28] Luke iv. 21, xvii. 21; Matt. xii. 28, xi. 2-8, xi. 20; Luke xvi. 16. Cf. also Matt. xiii. 16-17.
[29] Our Lord never uses the word 'final' or 'last' of anything concerning the kingdom. Only in the fourth Gospel do we find the phrase 'the last day.' See art., Contemporary Review, Sept. 1912.
[30] The view of Weiss.
[31] Luke xii. 19; Matt xxiv. 13; Mark xiii. 13; 2 Tim. ii. 12.